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Day 126 (1st November) Findikli to Gumushane The road to Gumushane thankfully turned left at the eastern edge of Trabzon, a million-strong city where we got lost in May. The … Read more

We succeeded in driving from the Russia/Georgia border through the whole of Georgia despite the Tbilisi-Batumi motorway still under construction and we had to make frequent diversions with inadequate signposting. … Read more

Day 124 (30th October) Groznyi to Verkhnyi Lars We stayed at the hotel until the chucking-out time of midday and then drove to the border past Vladikavkaz (where we got … Read more

Day 123 (29th October) Groznyi After changing some dollars into roubles at the Sberbank, we went to look at the beautiful Russian Orthodox church, and then strolled down the road … Read more

Day 122 (28th October) Gudermes to Groznyi After a Ukrainian drone hit the university in Gudermes, we realised why there were so many police and soldiers in the city. Actually … Read more

Elista is a small town in the middle of flat treeless steppe land, verging on semi-desert, which was quite dramatic for the first 200 miles until it became somewhat monotonous. … Read more

The sole purpose of stopping in Astrakhan was to stay for a couple of nights in the exotic little Shchuka (“pike”) hotel which has been built in the style of … Read more

Volgograd was known as Stalingrad until 1956 and when we came in 2018, it was very definitely known as Volgograd. Near the place we slept last night, there was a … Read more

The first town on the route is a sweet little place called Borisoglebsk, an ancient town named after Saints Boris and Gleb. I was able to change dollars for roubles … Read more