After my first cup of tea I looked out the
window at the waves lapping at our back tyre so I asked john to move
up the beach a bit. By the time we had showered and ready to leave
the wind was pushing the waves over the top of the beach and down
into the swale. The waves were again passing under us. I am glad we
moved earlier.
Our luck with the roads ran out today. We drove into Vylkove first off to get as far south as we could and look at the Danube Delta, we were on the Chilia branch.
The houses backing onto the river had little
swings and their boats tied to jetty's. We noticed a supermarket and
went in for a few vegies and milk. We were very surprised at their
deli selection. They had an amazing array of dried fish, some big
fresh fish one about 12kg and the others about 8kg.
A great range of cheese - we bought some hard goat cheese and a french Parmesan. We also walked out with a semi dried fish so will have to
work out what to do with it, hopefully it has been smoked.
We
stopped for lunch about 1:30 after 5½ hrs and 70km of very slow
roads. Because of the rain we could not use the speedways and even
off the side of the road was very slippery so a lot of time it was
very slow going. The holes were full of water so had no idea if they
were deep or not so had to treat them all as sharp edged holes.When we got to Izmail the roads were great. Got our printing done but the lady who printed was obviously having troubles and printed everything a few times….
Any
way, got that done and headed out.
John only slowed (not stopped completely) at a stop sign by
a rail crossing. There were gates beside the road across the
train tracks. A police car pulled us up and wanted to fine us for not stopping. John, agreed with the cop but was pressing to walk back to the crossing to explain and take a photo of the crossing. Another police car charged past with lights and siren. Our police car let us off in a a hurry explaining that they had to go (and join the fun I guess)
30kms of great road in 25 mins to krynychne where we camped off to the
side of a slippery track above the river.
Snow forcast but none fell.
136km
136km