Getting out of Moldova goes a little faster than going in; we were back on the road in three hours : Johnny, Magda, Jan and Valeria, in the cabin! Up to the border with Ukraine, 120 km further. In the middle of nowhere we found a little restaurant where we had lunch: good ‘zama ‘– Moldavian soup with chicken. Around 16.00h we arrived at the border of Ukraine. Luckily Valeria is here to help us, she speaks Russian, because the Ukrainiers don’t seem to have seen a Carnet ever! Magda and Valeria took care of everything while Johnny and Jan ate our complete stock of chips and cookies, talked and read a little. The line behind our truck got longer and longer…while the customhouse officers were trying to figure out what to do with our Experience Truck. Finally, after almost six hours we could cross the border at 22:15. We arrived in Odessa at 00.30.
The Forum
The last forum of this tour-stage: Odessa. Beautiful locations, lots of people, direct response: it looks like we saved the best for last! Since we won’t have another Forum for a while, we are a little melancholic. But…then there’s the city.. beautiful Odessa, to cheer us up! This port town was officially founded in 1794 by Katerina the Great, but before that it was already ‘visited’ by the Greek, Tatars and the Turkish. Later the French, Jews, Italians, Germans and of course the Russians also entered the city. You can still see this extreme diversity when you walk through the town. Not only the population is very diverse, there’s also a very rich architecture that is clearly influenced by different cultures. Duc de Richelieu (grandson of…), in duty of the Russians, determined today’s scene of the city. How? By taking a part of prosperous with a lot of nouveau riche and every well known brand represented. The mentality here is like every other port town in Europe. That makes Odessa one of the cities in our top3 at the end of this tour, together with Stockholm and Barcelona (also port towns!)
Building Bridges: with our host Igor Borodai ( right on the picture)
Opera, May-Pole and Jan
Opera
Jan in front of a cardboard building
View over the port
The city by night
The Forum
About the city
For more information about Ukraine, under which the Chernobyl disaster, also see the Value Report Ukraine, Kiev.
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