-4.5℃ at
02:30 so we filled some bowls with water. In case the lines freeze.
We
finally left camp about 11:30 aiming to be at the nuclear silo for
the night. But was not to be. Shortly
after leaving, the snow started. It snowed on and off all day. The
roads were slow so only made 230km. Supposed to snow another 2-3 cm
tonight and only get down to 0℃.
The warmest it was today was 0.8℃ and the coldest we saw while driving
was -1.8℃. As we were passing thru Bohuslav the snow was falling more heavily then low and behold there was a statue of three elephants standing on the back of a turtle - the world of Discworld by Terry Pratchett. No idea it is here not on google or our map.
When we stopped for lunch we had no water. Either the line is frozen or because I didn’t leave the pump on with all the bumps there is air in all the lines from the hot water leak.
We
are camped near a front gate by a frozen lake, covered in snow.
A
beautiful drive in the snow.
Shortly
after snacks for dinner and as we were pouring hot chocolate to have
with our Baklava there was a knock on the vehicle. I poked my head
out saying hello and a couple of police emerged from the back of the
vehicle. The short of it they rang a number to someone who spoke
English. Basically it was unsafe where we were lots of robbers, and
they’d take us back up north 20km to a gas station for the night. I
argued we were headed south. Anyway they waited for us to pack up and
we followed them, we thought to a gas station, One we went past was
closed so we ended up on the main road on the out skirts of the town,
being told that the town we were headed for (Pervomaisk) was that
way. They left and we trundled off about 10km and found a white road
that ran alongside a pine forest, then a little track into the forest
which we ventured down slipping and sliding in the snow. A lovely
little secluded spot for the night.