Firstly I hope Justin had a good birthday happy 30th, I suspect many a good drink was drank my many a person in full celebration mode, speaking of which congratulations are in order to Ade and Amanda. just wait 9 months until you knee deep in nappies.
Well as the title says im in Omsk, After a couple of days in St Petersburg wandering the sights and the streets taking lots of photos and trying not to spend any money, followed by another couple of nights in Moscow where the hostel was much better and cheaper so the wallet allowed me to spend an interesting and amusing night out at the B2 club with a fellow English speaker (well American), Oscar, which was well worth the navigation of Moscows subway system in all its fancifull decorations and arcitecture, and even worth the tiredness the following day probably from all the dancing with nice Russian law students and getting in at about 7am could have contributed.
Well the day after was battery problembs with the car, after being parked up for two days at 10C below or so. Fortunatly with the aid of Oscar and our minimal knowladge of Russian we managed between us to blag a jump start from a ruski, however, it as always cost money.
So then after 2500km of mad drivers who haven't found out how to dim headlights, witnessing a number of accidents or aftermath's thereof and missing a few head on collitions, one of wich resulted in the car taking a trip down a small ditch and a bad puncture / rip in the wall of my nearly newish snow tires. that cost me another lump of money and a night of little progress spent sleeping in the car followed by a morning sorting out the acquisition and replacement of said tire, hence my spare is also now a snow tire.
Well i haven't time to post pics now as have found out that im another 3hrs behind, im on Moscow time which is 19:30 but Omsk time is 22:30, so time to set my watch and consider what to do about sleep tonight, after 4 nights in the car i may try to find cheap accomodation as i could do with a shower, clean clothes and a bed but if not i may just continue driving, its another 2500km to Irkukst and from there probably another 1000km to Ulan Bataar.
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James. Just heard about the riots and mass arrests in St Petersburg. Where you were recently.
Coincidence? Is there anything you wish to confess...?
I don't believe the dogy russian welding of that water pump ius holding. Not to mention the car is still going. Well done. Who is next in line to win the bet??
Have fun
where are you now?
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