Rang Stu for his birthday and
had a good conversation. Rang Uncle Michael Deverel to say I will be
thinking of him when he has his tumor removed from his Larynx. In a
few days.
We
did some computer stuff while waiting for the email to say visa ready
for pickup. It came around midday. So back to the Ukraine consulate
to pick up visa’s and head north, to a lake.
What
a relief to have the visa. Yes we have paid more than we really
needed to if this was all planed but with the way things are still
shaping up around the Saudi bombing we have made the right decision.
Now at least if we get the Ukraine e-visa we can use that and keep our
other 45 days till later. We may make use of it on our way to the
Scandinavian countries next summer.
Certainly
having the multi entry visa for Russia has made this change easy.
We stopped
at a small suburb to do shopping and buy lunch. Could not find the supermarket but bought a pasty and a Donner kebab of sorts. Not too
bad.
This
region of Kazakhstan is flat and a little uninteresting. The wheat is
being harvested and sometimes 6–8 harvesters are seen in the one
large paddock.
In
the small town of Shchuchinsk we did a shop. The security guard was really
pleased to talk to John in his 3 words of English. Bought some
apples, grapes, beetroot, carrots, bread and wine. Then we ventured
into the back streets to find a water tap. Finally found one up a
street that had recently had sewerage pipes installed. Filled up with
the bottles and then put the full bottles into the shower for washing tomorrow. Our hands got very cold. Autumn is well on it’s way and
the evenings are getting down to 0℃.
Onwards
to the lake where we perched above the lake and watched a horsemen
herd his horses past through the sunset289km Camp site 293m alt.