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Inspired by many appeared on the Discovery Channel documentary about the Chernobyl accident, I decided to make a trip up there. A terrible article that appeared in the Guardian newspaper. I'll post on the forum , more willing to announce, after we close the group was to make the trip, 7 people. He was contacted by a Ukrainian travel agency that gave us a tour of the plant, city, etc .... cost was about 650 USD and was fully paid in advance. I went on trust and good idea. Accommodation in Kiev I found with google , And I got like maybe bine.Fix not in the center of Kiev, an area vis.Ne has cost 110 USD per night, in total 330 USD, and we had a three bedroom apartment fully furnished and equipped. Cool.
Decided departure for June 21, Thursday morning. The Bucharest were to blame E85 meeting in Bacau. How pacasacii sh still had not the things on here and wanted to leave after lunch, I went alone to Bacau. Beautiful weather, but also good trip. At Targu Secuiesc meet with Sebi, a motoretist of us on here, went to Botosani to ciopareasca shaddow and the. Stand with him about the first bad news-I course in tankbag thermos, the maps (Romania and Europe) were soaked in cola, plus the right side of the engine was covered with soft drink . How had common route, go to Sebi to Bacau, where was the point of rendezvous with the world. We learn that Marcos has problems, they jumped semeringurile the fork in Focsani, so do not rush, it's time ..

We find a nice restaurant in Bacau and ourselves to eat .....

Give details of others to come too. After an hour of waiting, you hear loud engines, jump street, nothing. flew by me ... obviously ratasera restaurant .. We meet at about 30 km later, when he realized that they went a little Bacau .

After meeting with the blessed in Bucharest, I went to Siren. Good roads, beautiful landscape ...

Arrive in Siret, where she would sleep in the station. An entrepreneur (super guy, actually) was on location management station and made a beautiful board, affordable prices, but small (about 45 lions cap). Here the landscape from the window of an apartment .....

Radauti visit, look for something provender .....

Engines are quiet in the pension-1 Yamaha, a Honda, a Kawasaki, a Suzuki.

In interirorul "station" ..... Super beautifully arranged, so the apartment and rooms ....

We wake in the morning (morning too for some of us ) And get ready for the road, we have something to go. Guidance, about 620 km to Kiev.

And so, at around 8, we are ready to go. We have 2 km to the customs, which make a stop and an hour, until we check visas, series engines, green card, etc. ....
And so cross the border, and stop for regrouping ....

Once in Ukraine, Chernovtsy srpe us to change quickly thiram oaresce bani.Drumul right, wide concrete vision. I pacasel 120-130 with the remaining 200 +. After about 4 km, as Bayezid's see engine braking, the next moment I see Marcos's engine lying on the asphalt. Calf I saw later, I looked after Marcos and Cornelia. I saw, were OK, but still shaking. There will never be able to measure how Bulan had then. It makes no sense to detail I've been through there a few hours ... and just talked with Marcos to 5 km before, even in customs, style went on to give evidence and unconscious .... Good thing they did nothing happened, after all that mattered.

What you see is the E85 European road with heavy traffic, passing slowly over a herd of cows .. Police looked fondly as they pass, but it seems that these animals do not bother anyone. And we wonder before that it was a calf on E85'u fucking!

It looks like mud on the number of cameras protect you and gives you the dragon balls, but do not protect the rest of hazards on the road ... was right who said that if you cover the issue or remove it completely, but do not you know worse, unconscious that go after that, believing you invincible. This comes from the topic of oldschool (Orestes).

After several hours, when everything was put together, job done, and I could not do any good, I went to Kiev, anyway ffff great delay and 600 km by road rather poorly done. First stop - Chernivtsi = chaos. find to change some money, find a guy who spoke French and we ask him to write down the names of capital cities with Cyrillic, as the road signs. GPS gave large failures in Czernowitz, had only a few streets, and we left the E85 how to change money, we are in trouble ... but a 30 min and resolved it. The first impression of Ukraine, bad roads and muuuulta continuous line that no one surpassed ... we got a little dull nerves, but that's ... I had problems with a wasp was stuck in my neck, my luck is not allergic to so, it was a little nasol.In stations, surprises .... you can not feed, if you pay you do not know how intai.Si as fuel, is a small problem , You do not fix something than cursing and nerves. Many nerves sometimes, but that's there is plentiful and gasoline prices decline mills: 2.2 RON per liter, diesel by 95. Charity. We would come and 76,82,86,92, but we risked. 98 I found about 3 stations in Ukraine.

The gas station that the photos we acquired maps of Ukrainian Cyrillic writing, otherwise not cope, although Chernivtsi man helped us fine. However, before Zitomyr get lost in a city, hit the road trucks was a big bunch of potholes on unpaved road. Do not know why they called road . Then - highway to Kiev ... all the best, only at a time, my mobile phone falls tankbag, whose zipper is opened because the GPS power wire. Luckily he landed on the foot and felt. I stopped as soon as I could, and with an unexpected luck, I found. A car is thrown in the grass between the senses, beyond the band 3, although the band Well, I fell between 1 and 2. Great is not luck had closed and, moreover, landed with the screen up. Pacasel called me and very lucky I saw in the grass. I could not believe I found I was so happy that I had forgotten they were on tape 3 on a highway where the fly .. and it's midnight already ...

We arrived in good Kiev.Prima surprise - highway going through town, muuult in interior.Sub 120 km / h not of searching the band 2 and 3. The band's not looking at all four, there Bayezid happened to receive a flashing to 200 km / h to confuse traffic ... GPS has done its job super well, so at around 0 was in front of the building. Type of agency out there waiting for us, we took over the apartment, I paid the man for three days and we installed as best I could. From the first night we realized: Kyiv is a city of dreams .... gorgeous, what to!

Saturday - day visit to Kiev .... I started with a casual tour of the center, Khreschatyk Street, look for something to eat ... After some fast-food restaurants, etc. I got a caucazian.Na restaurant food was bad, yes pretty expensive. Below you can see that they have and Pacasacu 'their ...

Other images of the Kiev ...

As you can see, you can easily play a miutza an 8-lane boulevard ..... And you can drink on the street as you do not ask you .. absolutely no health.

After I went through all their passages, we realized why I could not find the subway station. This is how the entry ...

Metro is a deep bored down the stairs to all those rulante.Iar if stopped, you did that you got to bleat. The price of travel is 0.5 UAH, that is 2500 lei. The interval between subway is about 2-3 minutes, so there was chaos in Bucuresti.Noi was fixed in the center and was not even 2% of the population of the Union.

The subway map I did not know where to go, but one of the stations is called something like Park Acvatic.Asa I set it as a destination ad-hoc, no idea where we go. I reached a bridge over Dnepr river, we walked through the area through a kind of bazaar / Balci / etc .. We bought bathing suits that I had not the apartment and we put a bath in the Dnieper .. super cool!

In the evening, I found a netcafe where I haunted the forum and have downloaded pictures from the camera, plus we could call home from IP Phones at reasonable prices. This is how a keyboard ... if there was only Cyrillic, was a real adventure ..

Sunday, June 24 .... big day ... morning wake up somewhere around 8, 9 Vladimir was to come after us, the bus. Lunches take some food from a nearby McDonalds, we can one up there devouring machine and are ready to go. Do not forget to take with new devices for measuring radiation received from Matefin provided by Victor, a biker of us that made ​​us sleep quieter life.

Punctual, Vladimir waiting list before us, we are puzzled why only 6 instead of 7.Dupa short explanations of which I do not think he understood anything (they spoke only Russian / Ukrainian), I started to go, a little guidance :30-2 hours. Along the way, I had read about a symbol in scraps .... Elena Filatov

Elena Filatov: "As we pass the 86th kilometer, we encounter a giant egg - Which marks the point WHERE civilization as we know it ends - and the Chernobyl ride begins. Someone Brought the egg from Germany. It represents LIFE breaking through the hard shell of the unknown. "

The first checkpoint "Dytyatky" quite far from central. But the check is very thorough, checking the list of permits and dealing with people and passports. Here appear the first signs that warn of radioactivity. The images speak for themselves ...

After we pass this checkpoint, enter the exclusion zone ... here, not much moving much, but one person sees a bike, etc.. We arrive at the entrance of town and stop for some pictures of Chernobyl and measurements. Radiation in air is similar to that of Romania, at ground level is a little high, but ffff less.

CernobylInterInform reach the agency in charge of tourism intermediation, to tell them so. Where we expect Denis, our guide, a boy of grade 10.

Inside, in the presentation room, look with some tightening of the heart more pictures from that event ... terrifying ...

After several presentations, photo albums buy some very interesting accident, suggestively called "A Star Is Born". Their price is somewhere around 25 lei, but in EN so something would have cost at least $ 1.00. Then I left for a tour of Chernobyl town, to visit the monument firefighters who tried to extinguish the fire and fleet vehicles, equipped here.

After visiting the monument, went into a store. In addition, you could not tell what it is. Was like the village shop, where you find everything your heart desires .. prices are normal, although I suppose not very Sale.We four shops in town, and some world. But do not think have paid too many taxes there , So as to be profitable for them ...

Remember those photos with some chicks with fucking ..... endowed male instruments that are saying that-and at Chernobyl? I think it's something really, because in this little shop I found condoms size XXL ... Here it is ..

From there, we went into a kind of golf Pripiat river, where they were abandoned ships were captured there by explosion ... a lot of metal that Gypsies would have stolen our screw screw ... radiation in the air there is about 10 times higher than normal. Guide told us that there comes to us about fishing .. put the thoughts, but the man seemed confident making f.

Park vehicles in the city arranged Chernobyl is very small, only about 5 ... their radiation reaches the values ​​like 41.85 microSv, which means about 200 to 300 times normal radiation. I even used vehicles during the explosion moved radioactive material, burying entire villages have been repainted ... but they hide an enemy that can not be defeated .. more time than timp.Mult much.

After visiting fleet we were back at the CernobilInterInform for lunch ... more food, I personally did not liked by the grain, but otherwise was OK .... I checked it and the radiation and corresponded .

With stomacu 'planned, I went to Central .... I can say it was a strange feeling, it was clear that they are a very good chance to do that once in a lifetime, and as such lived time intensity . Along the way, we caught a super soundly rain, lucky for us that we have stopped in time, otherwise go to the dogs about our tour ...

After the rain stopped, we stopped where once was a village. Now there is nothing left to remember it. Guide our attention on the forms that have soil and notice: everything was buried. It forms easily see houses, under a layer of earth and grass. That was one of the measures to stop the village became radioactive radiation emitted by the explosion - it was ingropat.Radiatia soil was about 6.5 microSv, ie 40 times higher than normal ...

Next stop - near the station, near the reactors 5 and 6. Are under construction. Spread on the crane, you think to build thousands of working hands, it could arise a city within days. We look carefully ... cranes do not move. Not move. Have not moved for 21 years. Everything froze in a moment, here is the first time we see means that time has stopped still. Villages and so far have all been changed by nature, have greened were forested, cleaned, removed, displaced ... here, we are still in 1986, that day in April ...

Guide tells us that this would be an interesting place to measure radiation. Not really understand why, just far from reactor 4, the other end of the plant. He says he is shown from going to one person with him, the rest wait. Geiger counter and go get him up to the water's edge, 3-4 m, not more.

Dosimeter begins to ring for the first time, radiation dose rate increased over 10 times. Geiger counter put down and watch it carefully. Remain locked for a moment, I do not believe it ... not my eyes off the meter display, dazzling values ​​increase. Dosimeter begins to scream even louder, reached 0.03, 3 times the alarm threshold mentioned above. MicroSv 129.9 meter displays. The nearly 1,000 times normal. Stuck, but alarm dosimeter me back to reality and make them sign Denis to go, is enough.

Denis I ask what happened here, what is with these values. The answer is somewhat terrifying. So he remained from the explosion. So it was all over, if those hundreds of thousands of people (about 700,000), appointed liquidators would not be sacrificed health and even life. They have made radiation in the rest area to be so small. This place was not clean, so that only nature has alleviated a bit. Here's an interesting link about liquidators-> here and here . Without them Europe would have been different today. They have prevented the nuclear material remaining after the event to produce a second explosion, 10 times more powerful than Hiroshima, which would be wiped off the face of the Earth Europe and half of the entire continent would be made forever uninhabitable. They have been forgotten by the mother Rusia.Nu appear in statistics, is not mentioned anywhere ... but they will not forget the history of humanity.

Nuclear plant named "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin". It had 7000 employees, of whom 176 were in night shift reactor 4, when the accident occurred. He had four reactors in operation, and two reactors 5 and 6 under construction. They have not been completed and permanently closed its plant power production activity in 2001. Inside the sarcophagus, radioactive material is still enough to kill 100 million people. Half-life of plutonium is 245,000 years. These are areas where there will ever be normal life.

Below, a picture of reactors 1,2,3 and 4 (right to left).

Units 3 and 4. Reactor 3 is the right basket, and the reactor 4, who exploded on the left. You can see how rusty is the sarcophagus which made the explosion was not devastating consequences for Europe.

Radiation in the air here is the 1.4 microSv, about 10 times normal.

After these measurements, we followed a trail that we enjoyed but which we expected. I mean we went through the court panel, and we stopped near the reactor sarcophagus 4. The court panel, to reactor 4, photography is almost prohibited ...

And we got near reactor 4. Reactor are closer than we ever imagined we could get. There is a beautiful monument dedicated to those who have raised sarcophagus.

Radiation in the air near this monument is microSv 7435, 50 times more than normal .... in green areas is much more.

Sarcophagus and crazy team, near monument ....

I did not stay very long in the area for the radiation in the air was great ... could see the direction of the sarcophagus, as radiation increases. It was obvious that emanating from the reactor, not the soil removed.

From there, we went to Ghost Town Pripyat, located 2 km from the central city where they lived all plant employees. Do not forget to mention that I have received many questions. Sunglasses I did not wear fancy, but for the protection of radiation, the eyes are very sensitive and could be affected.

Stop on the railway bridge on entering the city of Pripyat. Lighting poles placed at 10-15 m would be lighting the bridge much better than we have today bridges in Romania, 21 years later. It was a modern city, bright, pride of the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1970 and in 1986 was left for all of the 43,000 inhabitants ... yet you can see the grandeur that it once had.

View panel on the bridge at the entrance to town ...

On entering the city, crossing guard militara.Avem license, so we can go on.

Once in town ..... if we entered another world. The silence is deafening. Stop in downtown, near Hotel Polissia, Palace of Culture ...... images speak for themselves about their brilliance the other day ...

Vegetation overtook all ...

The next step is visiting Pripyat amusement park .... wilderness, but it was nice to see once ...

The amusement park, the radiation is significant .... asphalt microSv 16.99, 30.07 microSv vegetated areas ..... more, very much.

In those days of April 1986, radiation levels exceeded any imaginable limit (values ​​below come from the "Battle of Chernobyl" - Discovery Channel). Unit was then used as X-ray. Normal level was 0.000012 roengen / hour. In the afternoon hours of April 26, radiation levels reached 0.2 roentgen / hour, 15,000 times higher than normal. Late afternoon had reached values ​​that even scientists do not believe, blaming the equipment: 600 000 times more radiation than normal, ie about 7 roengen / hour. Yet, these values ​​beyond those found inside the sarcophagus of the team investigating the accident consequences for the challenge to prevent a second explosion, are minor. There met regularly values ​​from 100 to 200 roentgen / hour. Walked the halls where he was 5-6 roentgen / hour, passed by a coltz and reached to 500 roentgen / hour ... and ran from there as fast as they could. As another milestone in December 1986, when they managed to locate nuclear reactor fuel, flowed into basements in the explosion, they measured the area already famous "elephant's foot" 10,000 roentgen / hour. Anyone who would approach it, they would not escape. Normal dose in humans is 2 Roentgen / year. Lethal contamination occurs after the value of 400 Roentgen / year. The radiation in Pripyat in those days, a man received the lethal dose in 4 days. About the Chernobyl accident is said is not the catastrophe of the century, but the biggest disaster in human history. And over 1000 years, people will tremble when they hear the word "Chernobyl".

Other images of what was once a modern city, for his time ....

On one of the blocks can still read the inscription that was communist glory. Not speak, but in scraps Filatov found that that means: "The Party of Lenin Will Lead Us To The Triumph Of Communism" ....

Hehe ..... now streets vegetation has grown to cover everything, is an oasis .. in other circumstances, without that invisible enemy would have been a dream .... it is a nightmare that will stay that way forever .

I went from Pripyat, but I was thinking there ..... can not express in words the feeling .....

After leaving the town, we stopped near the Red Forest, known as the Red Forest. Link from wikipedia-> here . After the accident, all the forest "WAS glowing red" ... because of radiation, the forest seemed to light up ... alarm dosimeter starts as we get off the car, a sign that there is bad ... sorry for all radiation in air is 9438 ... and microSv increases. Denis left his jacket in the car (he dosimeter on it), would have made their periodic control problems (I understand that is about 6 weeks).

We approach one of the trees on the roadside. You do not have to go through your head to go over the green. Paula Geiger counter stretches towards the tree, immediately reached 88.90 microSv ... more ... and faster ... dosimeter already warned that the dose rate is enormous, so pull back on the road. Dosimeter continue to warn .... and here the radiation is high. Denis doing a step towards the tree .... Within seconds, his Geiger counter reaches displaying 1 - off the scale. Told us that he worked in the forest, collect soil samples, but stayed only briefly tiimp fff. It was and remains the largest area with radiation. Vegetation kept this radiation, and will keep hundreds or thousands of years .... Is it over a bit .. as compared to the sarcophagus, whose content will be radioactive for 100,000 years, seems a piece of cake .... your heart just freezes at the thought .... and then you remember that the pyramids were 5000 years ... a piece of cake in the time scale of Chernobyl.

Here is the emblem of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant plant ....... ...

At the exit from the 3 areas, we always have control of radiation ...

We cross the bridge over the river Pripyat and head to one of the villages which are still inhabited.

These people have returned home after the accident and stayed to take care of everything they have acquired a lifetime. Numeshte Paryshev village has 500 houses and 14 people. It is located 2 km from the border with Belarus ..... radiation here is normal (amazing, really) for a village, less than in Bucharest. And we are still in the exclusion zone.

Woman image is called Mariya Shylan . Has 76 years, but it's nimble as if the 26. He returned home after the accident and has been living here. Her village has increasingly fewer people in the village street comes a shop 2 times per week, Monday and Thursday ... soon, and this village will be forgotten ...

Maria lives normally as any man in a village ..... But her life holds many secrets that I learned by reading the link above ...

Leaving the village, not before that old lady to give us more candy each. I was deeply impressed ... On the way back, stop the Pripyat River bridge for a few minutes .... the weather is dull and have a last view of nuclear power plant, this time wrapped in ceatza ...

On leaving the exclusion zone, we got off the car and go through some of the radiation measuring equipment. Everyone is OK, we take a stone from the heart and then go to Kiev ... However, we remain a long time thinking about what I saw there. Along the way, drowsiness is more pronounced, thanks to radiation ...

The way home I slept all about, so here we are in Kiev at around 17 ... after we've circled us on there, we decided to go with a tour of Kiev engines, to look Motherland statue and then go eat something. After some adventures and invarteli the city, I managed to score both goals .... the statue I was surprised to find a great outdoor museum with tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft, missiles, combat boats, etc.. Superb, what mai.Si again I was impressed that although pass freely through that museum, not found stupid to believe that a piece of the plane would be better at it in the closet or basement ... . Beautiful ... I admired what to dozens of models of tanks. The photos you see better what I found there ...

Some fight scenes can not get along without you feel the history ....

Other jewels of the Russian army ...

Huge statue "Motherland" ... You can not go through to get here ..... Kiev without

Other images that open air museum .... I do not know the name, but I photographed it, if you grab someone to decipher Cyrillic, and tell us the new ...

Other images of Kiev, to see the world but there sleeping on benches ... ..

Imagery street Kreschatik .... (details in link)

So much of Kiev, a beautiful city that I hope we can visit again soon, but hopefully with some more time available.
We hardly detached from Kiev. I thought we could not get out, but budget plans and said that the time has come. I went to Odessa, 500 km of highway super boring, something rarely done, otherwise straight as the eye can see .. Bayezid has found work, he started to play Tag with Ukrainian cops with radar equipment .... They took him to 201 km / h, it was their luck that the braking that otherwise saw him ... Anyway guys were very calm with their radar gun was used to signal not to stop their world, yes Bayezid, honest boy, contributed to Uncle politistu 'about 70 UAH (10 euros) and solved, plus we have been assured that gas station and 17 kilometers of new, already about 60 km not already had found none and I saw pushing the Kawa .... I arrived in Odessa, disappointed since the entry ... skinny town, not even fit on the same map with Kiev hostel where I was .... I got accommodation, we dropped luggage (nice hostel, by the way, in room safes, cabinets, etc. .. shame it does not lock the door and the shower did not work but ... was razor). Parking in the courtyard of the hostel engine would have cost us $ 10 engine, which caused us to leave them on the sidewalk, under glass, tied with a chain ABUS soundly, borrowed from bugix. I went to look for the beach, after a while we reached Odessa orbecait the sea and I was a little disappointed than we expected .... that's, I never took a bath, I found it hard to eat a terrace, where atmosphere was crazy happy waitress that mimic food animals which was done ..... We gait and Marcos, even if more difficult, we've assembled a neighboring country on the asflatul and friends and went home to rest .... slabutz city, overall.

Dementialele written with Cyrillic signs .... is a real adventure to look something here ....

In the morning we left for Chisinau, the Transnistria .... I'm not saying it was right or wrong, but will say that people of my nation that no longer walked the tampitii customs .... Before filling up with about 7-8 km, but the rest did not they put ... I got to customs, break juice / crisps / etc..In customs ask us if we want to go .. not sure I understand the question, I said yes, I left. Get Transnistrian customs. We know they're stupid, stand in line for nice, neat. Get ahead, sees Romanian passports, we give away, to go to another counter, the exit route ... that we will catch you, but obeyed. Yes pacasel passport, which receive the shocking answer: no invitation, no go. In Ukraine we could not return as a single entry visa had, resulting in a less serious problem. Saving solution comes at a bus driver, tells us to give them 10 USD per person. Dam at peace with Uncle vamesu ', but we require 15 USD for cap and gives us a road we all transit, available with 2 hours to leave Transnistria. Cam you can work, but what alternative there is, we submit. We 2 m, comes another ', 100 road tax usd, 25 usd engine. Sucks. It had gone a little money, I still had 100 EUR. We need to give on that, so I paid and 30% more . Already left a bitter taste great .... We go to Tiraspol. Reach a bridge with two possible destinations: Chisinau and Tiraspol. Marcos did not know how to confuse and this (in Cyrillic and still miss them), the fact is I had to run after him and get back from the road. Moving the radar who already stopped bazatii had taken us there (it's about wilderness area) ... arrive at the entrance of Tiraspol where we stop for photos. You will see large picture logo of the USSR (CCCP) and all signs of Communist Russia.

Go to the center, we help one another, but can not find anything interesant.Absolut nothing. A MIG perched in a tough park, but those of Fetesti Ianca, etc. .. give class

After you've been wandering around town without seeing anything, convinces Pacasac Marcos to leave, because they have no gasoline. A take for Bender, ie Bender. There at the entrance, although Chisinau saw indicator, others said that that's for the long way (and yet was the way you look, I found out after that) ... Pacasel ask a cop at an intersection mint rub. Ox ala acts required to take a whole book wants to exceed a white line there .... With hard and scandals, and the latest UAH that with luck I had with them a head and go out there super nervous .... We've already decided not to stop even if we do sign police, the state here is not in discussions with tembelii guys. Still wondering about a few, get customs with Moldova where we take these guys and the purified, plus to pay road tax. Back. I had money to give, so he fooled with some MDL Marcos. We pass agaricii that we stop others to look at Storage. You get to make saddles to look down on motorcycles and in luggage. I not to give the bag down (it was well caught in webbing) I said to myself ... not to be removed to put on under the engine and appeared satisfied. Then ginit in tankbag Geiger counter with some explanation .... I scholarly convinced that it uses to measure the engine voltii and Amps, you can repair if damaged. That had never heard of physics in his life, but ... that's our luck.

Hardly get out of Transnistria, but there not promise that we walk . Go to first Lukoil tzeava to see in the distance. From Moldova, no one asked us for documents, passports, stamps, of-this ... The only place with some riders who roacari Satanists and rapists of babe In ... filling, prices in Romanian, all in Romanian, you hated the world .... God, what hurt us was ...... Departure to Chisinau, but we catch a terrible rain. Marcos kills a dog (brother, that by 'from going to church) and stops at the first filling of rain shelter us. I stop with the mirror fixed in Pacasel ... water ... I played tricks, and how later saw where they stopped, I had been too loud .... The rain stops, and from there go to Chisinau. Roads not bad, but not extraordinary, in Chisinau a bit of chaos as a European capital it looks good (I do not sh Kiev looking to European capitals, that 's with 20 classes over parlitele astealalte like Bucharest, Chisinau, etc.) ... come to a cafe where marcos and knew I was waiting for BD to come to it. Appears, put plans in aplicare.Plecam to METRO, then direction "Moldovan Village", a super location, see the veto as in the pictures. I did not realize even now how they fit a box of beer in a box, 2 boxes of juice, a lot of meat, coal, plus other little things, the engines were already full ... but they fit. Moldovan village is at about 25 km Chisinau, on a road comes to beating your children .... jaleeeee, but worth it. When I entered, I asked BD if I died and went to heaven . Location insane, can not wait to make the meeting that there were plans, sure I have the client. There, grills, and especially a huge dip in the lake at midnight ... just me, pacasaca, BD Nucu we dared, but was super ...

Morning, had to take the place ... Pacasacii have decided to extend a little vacation, so they remained there. On a rainy, I headed for Romania.Vreo 80 km up in customs. Well, on this piece I took a fright for I can not believe it and I still do not know what I would do in a similar position ... It was raining, there were columns of cars, we got a little separated from each other (this is another thing the walking group, not the pixu sh 'group we were each going as we saw the head and cut it when it happens .. .. This was a disappointment, but .. does not matter now). So, as I said, I was separated, Marcos had gone long before (we saw a stop filling), Bayezid I after him last. Through a wooded area about 30-40 km from the border, my horn a black BMW 3 series, was entitled to me. I look at them, two guys in police uniforms, car windows open, reach out the window and beckoned me to stop over. Put it in my face and stop coupled with Right signal. When passed in front of me, I saw numbers have Transnistria, have another flag (red green), and T have before, from Tiraspol. Cornelia asked me what I do, if you stop ... I did not know what to do, but I decided and put the hand in gaz.Urmatoarele about 20 km maxim.Blana I went with gas. The road was through forest, relatively poorly, with mutli ups .... Because of the slope and heavy weight motorcycle with a ton of luggage and passenger, not uphill climb of 100-120 louder and in a straight line, max 150, then brake for curves ..... lucky were not kept after me, I would be caught .... And I thought that fairy tales are like that of the custom Moldova Chisinau numbers ..... If you have stopped, not Luckily I was making .... I saw the time that the Transdniestria is still shaking ..... I exceeded ... Bayezid, then it could not ... then I realized that under the given gas, I went over above normal customs .. I came close, but I was easy ....... I'll be teaching my mind. And received advice not to go alone either by Moldova or Ukraine, but ... this is .... work group understands each other, it seems ....

In filling, close to custom, we meet some great Dutch, who were on a humanitarian mission ... you look like and about their links to post here ... Anyway, note 10 for them!

We arrive at customs, where we expect Marcos. We go there already are two steps in Romania .. I did not think I am ever so much to see my country. Dam acts at one point says publican - go to the counter and pay ala road tax. I answered briefly, "and you, brother?" I put in the full band, he did not know through what we went ... We pay the tax that was tiny, 3 MDL gives us forms (on which occasion I am passed through customs with Toyota bike, but my no registration) and then go to Romania. This thing goes like greased, 2 min we are filling beyond the border, where we expected boys to take Cornelia Samuraiders. After a long deserved break, go home, I will like to Blackpool separates me from them. Get home safely, a little tired, but happy ... we arrived safely. The bike has behaved after being charged more than the maximum axle loads enough. Consumption with many passengers and luggage was about 7.5% ... I comlpetat even an ounce of oil, which I think is a great achievement for an engine ff 1991. And now, after 2 weeks, and still more than the minimum oil level ..... I am proud of it! We need to fix front wing, however, inadvertently cracked last winter when I gave the wheel down, glued thin, now gave the criminal way in Chisinau in Moldova Village.

The overall trip was great. I liked so much that already planning another, perhaps next spring, for it is quite expensive. And maybe these guys out visas to Ukraine ... but certainly not pass through Transnistria.

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