Russia

Yesterday we spent 7 hours at the border in massive queues, blistering heat with no food and very little water, we then had to drive 300k to a city, we were hungry, thirsty and tired. Today we are heading for saratov and may be at the kaz border for today or get in early tommorow. Last few days have been very hot, road heat got to 48. No more nice hotels from here for a while we reckon. Russian locals are much nicer than ukraines. We found that if you smile and mention chelsea then they seem to like you. No fines or bribes yet, we had one pull by the police but we mentioned chelsea and he smiled and said “good work” and off we went. Truck is good, no problems yet.
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