Day 26
Up at 0800 to get the bike through customs. The ship was half empty.....it took fours hours to get insurance and the right forms filled and signed etc.
The insurance cost me 26 pounds...not bad for 4 months i thought. The customs cost me 2 pounds. I think i had about 5 pounds worth of new paperwork...so i decided it was a worth while trade!!
I headed out of Sochi in the damp.....i only had a small amout of gas and no map....luckly the nav involved me following the coast road north.
Petrol is 40p a litre (65p cheaper than Turkey)...but the quality is questionable!!
I stopped at a small vilage and aked a cab driver where i can buy a map that goes further east than the one i had. 15minutes later i had half the village shouting at me and no sense was being made. I did manage to buy a road atlas that took me a bit further east than the one i had. 5 minutes later, i folded my map and left in a bit of a huff. Not sure the village people were that happy with me!!
The road from Sochi to Tyance is a switchback up and down climb with very slow moving lorries!!! This was slow going.
Stopped for some lunch...everthing is in Russian...i do not understand any of it!!! So, i ordered what the guy next to me had. It was good, but bland.
Riding 20 minutes later through a bigger town i was looking for a bank to get some cash. All of a sudden a green BMW is honking and shouting at me from the window....'do you remember me?'. He pulled over and got out......it was the guy that i met in Turkey when i was buying my ferry ticket!!
(As i was about to leave the shop where i bought my ferry ticket, two russian guys walked up to me and videoed me...they asked who, where etc. They were in Trabzon to go to a monastry 58km away for a Christian festival. Oleg gave me his number and told me to call him when i got to Sochi.)
- Posted by mark stowe on 26/04/2006.
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