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LASTBILEN

as we already said we've got our bikes and it was a day of joy, except that they were late so we did not get the ferry to South Korea.

FÖRPACKADE

One who was happy to get back his motorcycle was also Matthias, our travel companion from Austria, who at 18 days shall run the whole way back to Belarus

MATTIAS ÅKER

When we were dealing with that vaporize our visas because the next boat going until the 12th and our visa only applies until the 11th

KARIN O AGENTEN

We had to hire a travel agent to help us with this for the first would be to a special bank and pay some sort of tax, then it would have hold of the right form to fill out, exactly right, otherwise you had to redo.

MYNDIGHET

Since this would be submitted in person to a imigrations authority and where we found out that they needed five pictures of us were, so when we had to drain away and take care of it.

We started the morning with all the paperwork here and the photos and banking matters, and at 18:00, we were finished and back at the hotel, but then, we also had was his new visa in force extra three days, hurray.

Here they really there with the paperwork.

But now we can hopefully come up with our ferry to South Korea tomorrow, the 12th, we have tickets, we have extended the visa and may operate the boat this time. Now we just go through customs and passport control and placed here and there could be a story for itself.

We must in all cases down to the ferry company to an Italian / Japanese couple who also is on the ferry.

Maurizio and Shizuyo

Do you think we are going from here? ... ..

We are still in the Russian country by the sea in the east, and we can almost look over to Japan where we wanted. We were also booked a ticket and there, but ... ... Now, the ferry foundered and will not be attending about two months. each Show to Russia expires on 11 / 9 and maybe we'll get to go with another ferry to South Korea but it is not clear that we've had with it. There is a ferry on Saturday too, but we have nothing to show who is of a ... ...

So we have been very busy with trying to ascertain how we can get out of here. If all goes as it must be said, perhaps tomorrow, otherwise we get busy with the extension to be Show and see when we can come up with next boat.

But shame on him who gives up. We will probably come from here on nogot way for we do not think they want to keep us are so difficult that we were the last days.

At home in Alexandra and Viktoria.

When we drove over the Ural Mountains, we were overtaken by a guy on a big motorcycle. He riveted cross piece in front of us and wanted health. He was a Russian, named Alexander Chegnlov and lived in Kjellehov but for Irkutsk. We said we were there and after about four minutes, we were already invited home to him and we must promise to call him when we were in the vicinity so that he could show us the path.
He is a true biker and driving around on these bad roads on a large Yamaha Royal Venture, which weighs about 500 kg with packaging and everything. He had been on a little tour of Russia and Belarus o when he came home he had driven about 2000 mil.
When we got to Irkutsk and we will call you immediately he came o pick us and showed us to his summer home. A small country house with a large garden where every kvadratmeder used for cultivation. Outbuilding with sauna, outdoor toilets and only cold running water in the kitchen. Victoria Alexander's wife, who called all in cultivating his garden. They live by what comes from their garden and only buys a little egg, dairy, rice and buckwheat.
They are real "healthy people. Drinks no, do not smoke and drink herbal tea and eating crops and herbs from his garden because it's "real" things, as Alexander says.
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Good use of garden.

Their boy Lev, has never drank soda or eating candy. The candy he receives is the chewing gum is made of resin from pine trees. They pick mushrooms, berries and pinjekottar in the woods and set up and preservation.

Pinjekottarna have small nuts inside the pill from and eat as candy. It is completely different with fresh pine nuts over the pine nuts that we have at home. These are much "fatter", softer and tastier.

Although it is simple and austere in their homes so we are so welcome. We had to sleep in a bed upstairs and slept in the kitchen itself.
kjell i lånad säng
Kjell in our borrowed bed.

On the floor in our bedroom Victoria dried herbs and leaves to be Avander for the winter. Everywhere there are flowers and herbs and leaves to dry. A wonderful man who understands how to take advantage of what nature can provide.
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Herb for the winter.

It is an honor to get to know these simple, practical and natural man and I hope that they once, come to our home when we come home, so that we can give a little back.

Baikal

kallt vatten
Kjell aware of the waters of Baikal ...

Here at Baikalsjön is it that in any other small tourist town at any time. Selling stalls and small restaurant "by hook or by crook to YOU to buy them.

turister vi Baikalsjön

There are also more tourists ....

We've been around here in Lisvyanka but it is not so great today, we will continue to run the bikes and see if we can find a place where Kjell can use his fishing rod who flew from Sweden to change to get fish in Baikal.

Tonight we will go back to Alexander and Victoria. Since we do not really know when we get hold of a computer again, so do not be worried if we do not respond to your posts, it will.

Some dagast events ....

We went early and drove from Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk. Initially the road was good but then it became pure katastofen. Sometimes there was something that resembled a road during rullgrusen.

The weld made to my box has been broken again and we had to stop and tighten up the box with straps so it became a bit better.
Poor or obefinlig road to begin with then just macadam road with big holes in. We drove and drove and there was no end. In the middle of this obyggd stopped my motorcycle and we had to start with computer troubleshooting. It turned out finally that there was a screw to the battery cable that skuvats off to a couple of loose wires. So when they were screwed it worked again.

But my bike still feels unstable after the crash, so when we are at a filling station found a workshop that could bring in an iron and then weld the tube again.
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Now perhaps it is this time ....

We knew that there would be a place to sleep and late in the evening we arrived there and they had just two beds for us. 33 174 37 419 N55 E98 Otherwise, we would have run on.

pallada

27 / 8 got up pretty early and gave us away. Partly as bad road today and we drove and drove, and came so slowly closer to Irkutsk. My bike still feels a bit unstable and I do not like to drive too fast. We stayed in Tulun ТУЛУН N54 30 963 E100 40 189 However, we drove to late at night and came to a little place in a small village called Telma.ТелЬМа

28 / 8 Driven by Telma to Kjellehov шЕЛЕХОВ N52 12 811 E104 7746 which was not very far. But we stayed and would eat breakfast when we come through Irkutsk because they served a breakfast of Telma.

Just when we stopped it happened a terrible accident. There was a small box which collided with a truck and one person died.
After this horrible incident, we drove the last little bit before we came to Kjellehov and where we are called to Alexander and he came o pick us up in a roundabout in the middle of town.

We drove to his home and was invited to lunch. Good soup that his wife Victoria (Vika) had done.
They have a small little jättego who is 5 years old, his name is Lev.
viktoria o lev
Victoria and Living in the kitchen.

We drove by Alexander to his workshop and washed our bikes and then we discovered that there was a screw in my framework as released and that was why my bike felt so unstable. Luckily we discovered this now when we could get help with it in his workshop.

We drove and acted, and invited our family to something that resembled a Swedish dinner, pork cutlets, boiled potatoes, salad and sauce. We also bought some beer and then sat and watched some pictures and talked before we went out o took a sauna in their outhouse before we went o bed.

29 / 8
Packed our things and gave us away to Irkutsk and then drove back out to Lake Baikal. We drove all the way to a small village called Listvyanka. Here we found a good hotel all the way down at the harbor and we took it.
hotell mayak Listvyanka
Perfect hotels ..

When we stood on the pitch in the harbor front of the hotel so we met two Swedish guys from Uppsala. Martin Lundberg and Wallenberg's name was Nils these young men and they had gone with the Trans Siberian from Moscow to Irkutsk, where they now had in the hotel a few days. They had taken the bus out to Listvyanka. We käkad lunch together and talked a little Swedish.

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Martin O Nils when we ate lunch in the restaurant at Hotel Mayak.

More travel.

We have come across a few pieces now and as we travel around in Russia.

First, this x-world gang from germany and since we met on two pieces of Italian at a gas station. They had been in Mongolia o driving around and was now on his way home again

Italienare

We met some Canadian canoe which is also being run around the world. They were probably in 65 years of age and drove around with two jeeps. Russ and Ellen Cmolik live on the east side of Canada and wanted us to come up o greeted them when we are in the hooks, they have a section called: www.teamcmolik.com and where you can read about their adventures.

Fixed that you think you are so far away sometimes hits on people who move around just like us. And should you cross the Russian Federation, it is almost only this way you can drive, so perhaps we will see more of.

Still Krasnoyarsk.

Today we just worked a bit with other things than running motorcycle. Kjell has served motorcycles and eat a lot of my flaws. It is bad bikes can withstand these roads. But Kjell's a super-fixer of great stature as he has already fixed it has shaken off so far.

biltemaväskan

Pack bag with asphalt rash ....

I have to ask one of those who come down o say hello to us to take a new bike bag for my motorcycle. Anyone who sits there now are only just o still together and it is not dense then straight anymore.

We have been a round o the streets and checked out Eva-Lena, we found a skajtare! I managed to catch him in the picture, but he was so shy and did not have either a sticker or say where he was called. He did not want to be on more pictures, either. But now we have at least seen a skajtare.

skajtare

Blygis ....

This city is well as most major cities, a lot of big houses and as is customary in Russia has every town in all cases less than a river, so also here. This is called Yenisey River and we found a footbridge leading over to a small island in the River.

bron över floden

Tomorrow we go further, then you do not know when we have the opportunity to write again.

Krasnoyarsk КРАСНОЯРСК

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Krasnoyarsk coat of arms.

N56 ° 53 196 0719 E92 ° So are we in Krasnoyarsk, Siberian third largest city with about 1 million inhabitants. The road here was that the rest of Russia, flat and full of forest. Here's not so much beautiful scenery to look at while driving. Russia is big, it becomes clear when you drive mil after mil without a house or send a forward intersection. Sometimes you can solve the cows along the roads and sometimes it can be seen riding kofösare with big whips that guard them.

kofösare

Russian cowboy ...

We have crossed half the country and we are fairly good at the time so we intend to stay here at the hotel in October, two nights so that we have time to recharge their batteries, see the bikes and treat us to see the city.

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A little bubbles from Kransoyarsk

Yesterday on the way here was at a bit much so we stayed at a "Gostinitsa" N56 ° E88 ° 31 720 9007, an inn along the road. It was a nice little place where all of us came out o showed us where we would ask for motorcycles that they would be safe. Some of the guys had partied a bit and was pretty happy already when we arrived. Alexander, one of the happy boys, thought it was fantaskiskt to have long-distance guests as he bubbled on his Russian. He could trap the one or two words that were similar to English so we could reasonably go with what he was talking about. He wants to try Kjell's motorcycle. When Kjell politely but firmly said no, so he came with his head and stuck out his lower lip like a little boy, although he was 33 years old.

armbrytning

Arm wrestling ....

ryska glada gossar

Russian boys happy goa ....

The power went while we sat in the cafe, but the girls in the kitchen could still conjure up warm and go Soli Duck (soup) and was his plate with mashed potatoes o sausage. For this we got was a lukewarm beer because everything else was locked up in the coolers, the lock will not open without power.

We were invited to both coffee and tea and Kjell taught the boys to drink "kaffegök" instead of mixing vodka with tomato juice as they did. It became popular as a piece of the evening was the great time and wanted to break the arm. Kjell put them three times since they were satisfied ....

We will roll on ...

23 / 8 2009

We were out one round on the town last night. Here at the hotel restaurant was so boring so we decided to go out somewhere instead. We asked a taxi outside the hotel guy and he knew a good Irish pub.

It is a bit strange to come in to an Irish pub where everybody speaks Russian, and almost nobody dares to speak English. Almost all young people can be a little English but they never use it so of course it is strange that when speaking English. However, the more beer people were getting the more people came up and talked a bit.

There was a live band at the pub called "The News" and they were really good. They played everything from Deep Purple and Creede to Russian poppmusik. Kjell got a disc of them as we should listen to when we have access to a CD player.

We sat for a while and talked with two Russian girls. They were so nice and drove us back to the hotel. As we said before, people are nice and polite, and above all using the same kind o.

ryska tjejer

Our Russian "taxi drivers"

We roll on the east and we will see when we get an opportunity to write the next gång.Vägarna learn 't get better so we are taking it so calmly. It is better to be careful that we do not run into more accidents.

A little thought ....

A little light in from Novosibirsk, found that the helmet was off.

(Now, we've run 620 mil since we left Vejbystrand.)

We are really not that smart ... ..

How did we get this stupid idea to drive around the world. Running round the world is in itself not a bad idea but as we have chosen to do that's really stupid. First, lets not run near the road because we have chosen some northern hemisphere and a little Southern. Second, as we drive east. This means that each day we run we will miss some time, so when we ran across the yard, we got rid of an entire days in our lives. We've talked about this and probably we need to run the other way next time to get home where the days again. Right? Who wants to lose a full day in his life, ha ha ha.