A cold morning....
We bought a couple of 9 litre bottles of water and bought diesel to finish off our Moldivian Liu.
I assume washing dries in the cold?
We crossed
out of Moldova OK, but the Romanians sent us back to get some
paperwork from the Mondolvians because we were over 3.5tonnes. The
Mondolvians had no additional paperwork for trucks and suggested that we join the bus queue in Romania - Oh, and could that have our web site so
they could follow us?
We
returned to Romania and went down the truck lane, got our passports
stamped etc, and then after a wait rolled into the Romanian customs
area. Roughly translated ...., "What the hell are you doing here, this is for trucks!".
John, replied "well your mates over there sent us here!". There
were some disparaging looks and grunts directed at "those
idiots...". John struck up a conversation with costoms chap we were dealing with and, no problem, he had a
couple of mates who moved to Australia to study. Fifteen minutes of yarns
later and all good - have a great trip...
So
we drove another 60km south along the boarder and found a nice quiet
little spot overlooking the river, border and with excellent
internet access from Moldova. Great, except as we rounded the last
corner to our camp with a view, there are a couple of boarder control
chaps watching for smugglers with thermo binoculars.
So
now there is a lot of angst about whether we can stay this close to
the border. They wanted us to go back and stay in the last village.
A border control chap with English over the phone told John that it was dangerous here
because of wild animals like pigs. John, mentioned that we have crocodiles,
laughs all round and he calls his boss and finally we are allowed to
stay (with the boarder guard phone number at the ready in case there
is a problem).
A
quiet night (no pigs, crocodiles or cigarette smugglers)
191km