Pierre, Mockba 02/09/2011

This morning I woke up at 3 or 4 in the morning. I was lying on a red velvet seat, with white sheets and in front of me, my rucksack on the luggage rack.

This morning I woke up with the taste of the bread I've eaten the day before in mouth.

This morning I'm looking at my passport: there are 2 new stamps, one for the departure from the Ukrainian territory and another for the entrance into Russia.

So, like everyone in this railcar, this morning, I'm giving back my sheets, I'm packing my bags and get off the train in the Moscow Rail Terminal.

Wow, I think we are far far away now!

At Maria and Katja's home

The ambiance is relaxed, all is quiet, restful.The conversations are pleasant.That's my rhythm! But, not really the one of Clement which run all over the place.

Clément, 05/08/2011

After a hard waking, I'm ready to resume my story. I was on "the glasses of schnaps", and the following day (03/09/2011) was hard.

Three unsuccessful hours of Hitchhiking to Nuremberg, and when we resigned ourselves to pick our rucksacks and to leave elsewhere, a car stopped. Phew, at last a good new after this never-ending wait, outstretched arms, under the morning rain.

A nice student, he had also done a detour to show us a huge bridge (apparently the taller in Europe). We had to take another car to go to Nuremberg and on the premises, disappointment: a terrible periphery. Our chauffeur leaved us in a very inhospitable place (He wanted to leave us quickly and set off). Only roads and industries. Only one thing left to do: walk.

The tiredness and these setbacks were hard for the morale. We were resigned, sitting in a park without a shadow of a dwelling or a place for the tent. But as (I repeat myself), we are not shielded from a stroke of luck, a dog came to sniff our rucksacks. It's owner started a conversation with us. And here we are, in his garden since 2 days. We will set off soon towards Amberg and these 2 last days make me feel good (and Pierre sings no more).

Yesterday visit of Nuremberg, and good surprise. Under his inhospitable appearance, the city hides a lovely center. The best is yet to come, when after a substantial typical meal, the daughter of our host invites us to live it up on the town, with one of her friend. A great evening and a short night, spent in one of our sidekick’s little flat ( the garden where we had pitched our tent was at 1h of walk, it was better). We returned this morning, to store. A couchSurfing contact is waiting for us in Amberg, it’s 15h, let's go!

Hahoy,

As agreed here we are 6 days later. We're so well rested that right now Pierre is sleeping like a log.

Here it's 11.57pm so in France it's....2h57am. The train arrived at 6h30 and some. There is something magic happening in this train that I can hardly describe,, maybe it will be clearer in my notebook ( besides I finished it we'll send it as soon as we arrive in Japan!).
Anyway jet lag is horrible, it was impossible to sleep at the right time so when we finally arrived it was really time to get some rest.

From our host's flat we can see the sea and across that sea is our next target. We'll rest and visit, our ship should leave the 21st in the afternoon and arrive on the japanese coast the 23rd !

It's a bit weird that you received all the parcels, we're exhilarate, thanks for the teasing ! I hope the pictures are good.

See you !

Arf I can't leave you like this, tribute to Pierre who had it on his mind all way long :

We are now going to Vladivostok with the Transsiberian ! 6 days of rest. See you !

Clement et Pierre

Hey hey guys !
We are in Russia, in Moscow in fact !

Sorry we didn't give news since a long time but this trip take a lot of time. So What ? After Wroclaw we left to Krakow, still hitchhiking, and on this point Pierre is very useful with his super artist power graduated from Art school :

Pict by Joanna, Krakow

I'm not gonna tell you all the details about the road, something tell me that you would discover it in a couple of days (At least, I hope).
Just know that Ukraine is really awesome ! And people are very welcoming (even if they seems closed in the first impression) as you can see on this picture of us in Zhytomyr with Casey (our american hoster and friend). A little Ukrainian pict.

Pict by Heidi, Zhytomyr

Bullshit ! Ukrainians are not like that, in Kiev we've met really coolest people in the world, few students who showed us the city without stopping and who relayed themself to help us to find some place for sleeping, washing clothes or getting internet... But Pierre worry me...

Pict by Karina, Kiev

Whatever, they got a giant rabbit and you have to go in Kiev to see this !

Photo de Karina, Kiev

Thanks ! To all the nice donors of the WwT1 project for their help. Really we fell very embarrassed, thank you for trusting, we gonna do everything to give you back !

So we start the WwT2 project, that's just an add to the first one because It was already half paid by the WwT1.

If everything is ok we'll buy our transsib' tickets tomorrow ! We took a train with 3rd class couch for 14 hours from Kiev to Moscow, to have a brief idea about it, and it's quite comfortable.

Thanks again !

Bisous !

Clement