Another big day of driving – 600+kms on good roads. We stop for a wee in the bushes and notice we are surrounded by redcurrants growing wild. Often we see people wandering by the roadside with buckets and now we know why.
We have passed quite a few bad accidents – unsurprising considering how some of them drive. Today it is the remnants of a car and a large truck. There is only a smoking set of wheels and some car seats left from the mazda and the bottom half of the truck cab is missing. We all go quiet on the radios for a while.
Lunch is in a paddock through a small rural village. Each house has a gaggle of ducks and we notice they are dyed different colours - I geuss so that they can tell whose is whose. The kids look a bit bewildered that anyone has driven through their village...ever.
We arrive in Omsk and park next to a couple of bikes that are also touring. they leave a card on our truck the next morning when they leave. www.strimstrum.blogspot.com and ridersoftheowrld.co.ukDinner is at an irish pub just down the road. The menus are in Russian only with no pictures and the waitress speaks no emglish. So we resort to drawings. She knows what we want but they dont have burgers. We manage to get her to understand sausages and fries and we all get the sae to keep it easy. We take a walk after dinner to the watersedge. They have a lovelock bridge here. Apparently there are a few in Europe. Couples come with their engraved padlocks and lock them on the fence sealing their love. Gay.
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