12th of April 2011
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It is nice to see your feet again with a normal color, not like post mortem. :-) Even though I had to run in circles after the drops coming out of the shower in my “Hotel”, it was hot water. So nice.
In the early morning in Yalta sunshine but it had only 4-5°C. I took a fast breakfast and made my way towards Feodosiya (“feo” in Spanish means ugly:-) and at the second crossing I took a wrong turn + ended up in dead end. Passing a botanical garden I found another way back to the road, meanwhile in the rain.
This IS a dream road for motor bikers, really awesome, it has everything, endless bends, calculable bumps in it which make you fly, beautiful landscape and nearly no traffic, because holiday season didn’t start yet. And then there was this trail of oil from a car or truck…really fascinating, I observed this before: the oil spills always in the bend/curve and exactly in the middle of your lane. As a biker you would normally go from the outer to the inner side of the bend to have always some reserve. Once there is such an oil trail on the road your driving scheme is somehow destroyed because you always try to choose on which side of the spill you can make it around the bend…but this was only for a couple of kilometers…yes, then I had rain again. Amazing.
Feodosiya looked really ugly from the “highway” and I decided to proceed to Kerch, to be closer to my planned border crossing in the morning. Another hour on a more or less straight road, passing by some of the beach resorts ( I think I would chose some other spots in this world to make a beach holiday:-)…I drove over a hill and I felt “them” already waiting for me down there. Flashing head lights a kilometer ahead warning another car in front of me confirmed my guess. HA, I thought, you won’t get me, I know where you are waiting. So, I slowed down to below 90km/h (speed limit for roads out of town). I saw them already and somehow they took my full concentration, so much of my concentration that I passed by a small village sign shortly before I reached them…They stopped me and showed me 84km/h on the laser gun…How stupid one can be! :-))
They let me wait and wrote first protocols for 2 other car drivers…and these Ukrainian protocols are really long.
When everyone was gone, the police man showed me a book about traffic signs, explaining his nice book with Russian letters…my papers still with him…and after making some fun with my driving license (like keeping it as a souvenir) he talked to his colleague and they gave me “special grace” + just let me go! Such nice guys!
Now I am in Kerch and happy about my defrosted feet and fingers. And tomorrow the adventure in Russia starts…I am already afraid of the border/ ferry crossing:-)
In the early morning in Yalta sunshine but it had only 4-5°C. I took a fast breakfast and made my way towards Feodosiya (“feo” in Spanish means ugly:-) and at the second crossing I took a wrong turn + ended up in dead end. Passing a botanical garden I found another way back to the road, meanwhile in the rain.
This IS a dream road for motor bikers, really awesome, it has everything, endless bends, calculable bumps in it which make you fly, beautiful landscape and nearly no traffic, because holiday season didn’t start yet. And then there was this trail of oil from a car or truck…really fascinating, I observed this before: the oil spills always in the bend/curve and exactly in the middle of your lane. As a biker you would normally go from the outer to the inner side of the bend to have always some reserve. Once there is such an oil trail on the road your driving scheme is somehow destroyed because you always try to choose on which side of the spill you can make it around the bend…but this was only for a couple of kilometers…yes, then I had rain again. Amazing.
Feodosiya looked really ugly from the “highway” and I decided to proceed to Kerch, to be closer to my planned border crossing in the morning. Another hour on a more or less straight road, passing by some of the beach resorts ( I think I would chose some other spots in this world to make a beach holiday:-)…I drove over a hill and I felt “them” already waiting for me down there. Flashing head lights a kilometer ahead warning another car in front of me confirmed my guess. HA, I thought, you won’t get me, I know where you are waiting. So, I slowed down to below 90km/h (speed limit for roads out of town). I saw them already and somehow they took my full concentration, so much of my concentration that I passed by a small village sign shortly before I reached them…They stopped me and showed me 84km/h on the laser gun…How stupid one can be! :-))
They let me wait and wrote first protocols for 2 other car drivers…and these Ukrainian protocols are really long.
When everyone was gone, the police man showed me a book about traffic signs, explaining his nice book with Russian letters…my papers still with him…and after making some fun with my driving license (like keeping it as a souvenir) he talked to his colleague and they gave me “special grace” + just let me go! Such nice guys!
Now I am in Kerch and happy about my defrosted feet and fingers. And tomorrow the adventure in Russia starts…I am already afraid of the border/ ferry crossing:-)
