// Trip: Around the Black Sea 2010
In the year 2010 we made with an old Renault Espace a 20,000 km long road trip Around the Black Sea. In six months we crossed elven countries:
Poland,
Ukraine
Romania,
Bulgaria,
Moldova,
Russia,
Georgia.
Azerbaijanand the Caspian Sea was our most eastern point of the trip. On the way back we drove through:
Armenia,
Nagorny Karabakh,
Turkey and finally
Serbia, where our car gave up.
We met the Gipsy King in Moldova, became good friends with a poor family in the autonomous republic Transnistria, fell in love with Crimean landscape, hated corrupted Russian police, had a good rest in Chechen villages in Georgia, melt in 42 Celsius degrees in Azerbaijan, got wet in Nagorno-Karabakh, were asking questions about Turkey in Armenia and about Armenia in Turkey. And all this with a small, not even one year old daughter Hanna.
The stories of our trip from the beginning on
Empty Ukrainian ski tracks
Skiing resort which wants to host Winter Olympics in 2018? Sure we are going there! Village Bukovel, no to be found on any of our maps, can be a nice place, but difficult to become a heaven for skiing lovers with highest mountain only 1245m. read more »
The most beautiful border
Our last day of western Ukraine was very green. I have no English words to describe all those sorts of green! We crossed the most beautiful border I have ever seen: between Ukrainian and Romanian mountains, through “our” Tysa river (we met it on our trip to mountains, as a small baby river). read more »
The Summer says Hello in Romania
Real summer together with first night sleeping in the car. Night with adventures because maybe around 3am four young shepherds decided not to let us sleep, where lighting with torch and knocking on our windows. read more »
The dark side of the Romanian communism
In Sighetu Marmatiei we discovered two things: Museum of Arrested Thought and placinta (turnovers with potatoes, cabbage or chocolate!). read more »
The Blue Merry Cemetery
Sapanta, small village 12km from Sighetu Marmatiei is known for two things: one is church, second is cemetery. But they are not ordinary church and cemetery. read more »
Making fresh cheese
On the way through the northern Romanian mountains a small camp of shepherds attracted our attention. First they tried to gather some runaway cows and then we saw that the obviously make fresh sheep cheese. read more »
