Russia continued to be dangerous and stressful, but then suddenly it was all over and we were in Ukraine. What a relief! The traffic vanished and we pedaled our way into a nice pine forest for a great night of camping.
The next morning we awoke to heavy rain and a bitterly cold north westerly. It had been cold since leaving Saratov, and I was gettting a bit miserable. It was time I bought a rain jacket. We cycled for three hours and stopped in a beautiful city called Sumi.
We located ourselves in a nice warm but anchient hotel room, and went in search of food and clothes, and a bicycle shop. Our defective Schwalbe Marathons had been giving us endless headaches since the very beginning. One finally blew out as the steel bead snaped. It had only done about 300km! Now I was in desperate need of both a spare tyre and spare inner tubes.
We strolled about the quiet streets of Sumi and found all the things we needed quite easily. Our Ukraine adventure was of to a brilliant start. This was the first bike shop we had found since leaving China!
We hadn’t seen many other bikes in Russia at all, it was nice to see them again. The trafic had behaved its self since the border too.
0 Responses to “Day 92: Sumi, Ukraine”