last month... |
I've been so busy living the life than I haven't had time to write about it. In summary: Slovenia - back to my roots, catching up with my huge clan and checking out the weekend house that my dad just ...
Posted by Mick Muck on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:18:00 PST |
Transit: Transdnistria to Slovenia |
Click here for photosThe last blog enter ends with us leaving Transdnistria and exchanging "presents" with the border guards. From then on, it didn't really get any less bizarre.Firstly, the tra...
Posted by Mick Muck on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:08:00 PST |
Moldova: Transdnistria - let's start a country! |
Click here for photosWe were settling into Chisinau - the capital of Moldova - quite nicely. The people were friendly, there were several good bars and it was a welcome change from the brus...
Posted by Mick Muck on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:59:00 PST |
Georgia: is Lexo stuck there forever? |
Just heard from Alex (or "Lexo" as the Georgians call him), the Belgian banker that accompanied us to Kvarelli and was abducted by an entire village. He's still in Tbilisi and he's hanging out w...
Posted by Mick Muck on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:12:00 PST |
Ukraine: Kiev - not so bad after all |
Kiev seems to have lightened up, at least in my mind anyway.
We spent a bright, sunny day at Hidropark, which is a beach resort on the banks of the Dnipro River that runs through the middle of the cit...
Posted by Mick Muck on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:37:00 PST |
Ukraine: Kiev - more Soviet than Soviet? |
After our bribe fiasco, we thought that things would have to pick up. We'd meet some nice people and get a much better impression of Ukraine.
Wrong!
Everyone has been super rude to us, which I a...
Posted by Mick Muck on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:49:00 PST |
Ukraine: Odesa to Kiev - our first bribe |
After two days of sailing the Black Sea, we had Georgia behind us and had arrived in Ukraine. The cargo ship was fully of friendly Georgians who all wanted us to visit them and drink with t...
Posted by Mick Muck on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:33:00 PST |
Georgia: Tbilisi - the landlady isn't called Nazi for nothing |
Our homestay in Tbilisi is with an old eccentric lady named Nazi. Her name is pronounced phonetically, not as in the German 3rd Reich. But if you stayed here, you'd be forgi...
Posted by Mick Muck on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:00:00 PST |
Georgia: Khaheti - Kidnapped by loving bandits and almost damn-near killed by kindness |
Over a week ago, we went to Telavi from Tbilisi by cab. Our cab driver, Temo, after the long drive and much bad Russian and charades, decided we were his friends and invited us to his home on th...
Posted by Mick Muck on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:12:00 PST |
World Cup Fever |
I finally got a chance to watch the Socceroos on TV. I've missed the other games because I was away from civilaisation but at last, here they are. And what a game!
Australia deserved to wi...
Posted by Mick Muck on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:30:00 PST |
