Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Friday 20th 480 km to Rostov.

Once again we managed to take the wrong way out of town. Missed the morning address but then again perhaps they didn't know either. It is a long time since the group has been together. However the other, as I understand we are called, set off again to find a way to Rostov that involved the least amount of M5 riding possible. We did need some today but 120k down the road we found the back road we were looking for. It looked like a shortcut but as usual it became a long cut ! But more fun that way we believed.
The road we took ended in a dead end at a lake. Good enough to stop for lunch and we were well rewarded with a great lunch. The lady owner was a charming character and served us borsch and salad.
Back to the back roads that got smaller and smaller until it ran out at a river. No ferry to save us this time so the scouts took to the paddocks and finally found a track through the fields and a very untidy dirty village that 2kms down the road had a new tar seal road ending at the same river.
So here we were at Rostov on the river Don.
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