From Russia with love......

We always knew that Russia was a bit of stepping stone into Kaz, we never really understood how much time it would take.

We hurried up onto the Trabzon to Sochi Ferry, little did we know that we would still be on the boat that this was the start of a 47 hour long journey that really should only take 12 hours.

The captain decided to go to a wedding rather that set sail for Russia so we sat in the Turkish port of Trabzon for nearly 24 hours.

Must be nice to be the boss of your own boat !!

To be fair we where just about the only non locals on the boat and they all seemed happy to mill about the boat, the food was good and cheap.

The ticket was 500 US $, no cabin, NSF all is forgiven...

Once we did get to Russia there was a lot more hurry up lets wait, with lots of forms and document to process.

It was quite an antique process, we where well worried that the Russians where going to take our cars apart but they did not, to fair the process once in it was not at all too bad, getting too the process was a drama.

Russia itself was kind of odd, the older Russians seemed to be really nice and welcoming, the younger ones seemed to carry a bit of an attitude.

The journey itself through Russia was without drama, apart from one incident, which I will write about separately.

Three days of sunflower fields later we where at the Kaz border, more fun and games !!!