Jul 22, 2022 | Asia
With Asareh loaded into an uber, I pack the rest of our stuff into the wagon and aim south, well sorta south, This blog will cover my 2 day drive as I head south towards Odessa. Starting with me leaving town I head towards Pereiaslav and then turn further south. My...
Jul 22, 2022 | Asia
Back in town, I will add they took our monitors away before we arrived… so maybe there is some residual levels we don’t need to know about? Either way we are back in town and ready for some museums! Well, more like a day in the park and we add museums to it. Our first...
Jul 21, 2022 | Asia, Featured
After we finished in the substation, it was time to head to control room 4, the room where it all happened. We continue walking down the golden mile through more full body scanners for radiation and move into rougher hallways, hallways that run along the original...
Jul 21, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Our second day seen most of our time spent in the actual powerplant itself. As I said before, it was in operation as a nuclear plant until 2001, but is still in use today, as pictures will show, for use as a sub-station. We started our tour with entering through side...
Jul 20, 2022 | Asia, Featured
No our car didn’t make the cut… Although I would gladly go back if I could take it in again. During our trip we were not able to view the vehicle grave yard, as most has been cleaned up for scrap. But they did have a range of vehicle on display to see and of course...
Jul 20, 2022 | Asia, Featured
During our time here we spent a solid day almost exploring the city, well that is left of it, Founded in 1970 it was to be the poster child for soviet cities, it had averything, apartments, amusement parks, schools, the works. It was sectioned into micro districts...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Loaded in the van in the morning we set out, Out first stop along the way will be for the entry checkpoint, no photos here, but they take your passports and check you in. this is where you receive your first radiation meter to monitor you. We never did get the results...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Good morning all, today we wake up and get into a black van that will take us to Chernobyl, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in humanity. We will be spending 2 days in the area, visiting the city, power plant and the town of Chernobyl itself where we stayed in a...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Not much to do today except chill and drop the wagon off for some work and the mechanics, now its not there due to being unreliable. This company redoes steering wheels in leather and I also need my clock spring replaced plus a few niggling bits. Mainly preventative...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Now where were we, oh ya, its crazy hot out so lets go downstairs, like down down, 6m wide silos sunk into the ground 1 for the workers, 2 at a time and the other for the sleeping giant. The workers would take 48 hours shifts in the bunkers, just 2 at a time. And were...
Jul 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
This is a 2 part blog, and I will start with our day, go into just the outside area around the bunker and then blog 2 will continue inside the bunker as there were way to many photos taken. We get up early as we have made plans and stop in town for brekky, we hit up...
Jul 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
I have no idea what airplane it is, but it was cool so we stopped quickly to see it, this is the start to an exciting day. We visit the space museum, from the very start its cool, copies of sputnik on display, Asareh gets to meet wall-E and I am allow to touch stuff....
Jul 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
I would be lying if I said we did not stop for another one of those croissants that are crazy unhealthy before leaving town. So I wont, we did, it was amazing. We did enjoy the morning lazily strolling around town and finally left around 11. With such a late start we...
Jul 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
With the sounds of vehicles passing the car again we get out of bed, but of course we never leave camp without coffee and a chill. Golden rules guys. With the car packed we head north, our goal today is to reach Lviv. We have a nice Airbnb booked in the heart...
Jul 15, 2022 | Asia, Featured
When will it end? We leave Ivano-Frankivsk at a decent hour, and all fresh from the hotel we stayed in. Our goal today, find a way through the mountains to a nice waterfall to camp at. We motor south enjoy the cool air, it’s a slightly overcast day but that is fine,...
Jul 12, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Waking up early we are read to head to Ivano-Frankivsk but first we must stop at a castle for a look around, not more than 20kms from camp we pull into a small town called Khotyn where there is a full on castle/fort in an area with a stunning church next to a lake....
Jul 11, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Double day bonus blog After surviving the night near the old facility we head further west with our goal of arriving at a camp site called База отдыха but first we swing through a small town by chance as we see a heap of statues on the side of the road, this takes us...
Jul 11, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Waking up to green green grass we have a nice little breakfast before heading out, although the tent is still slightly wet during pack up, we are sure we will camp before dark and it will dry today. We have a slow day planned looking for our next camp, We cover...
Jun 20, 2022 | Asia, Featured
And show up tomorrow night in a major storm with sideways rain please.. But today we pack up and leave Odessa and we have no real destination in mind, we are just following the road west. We have a late start as we are feeling slightly hung over and still need to do a...
Jun 1, 2022 | Asia, Featured
I’d say its not normal but I would be lying, we normally cover some serious ground in towns on foot, although not as bad when I took Sean on a 10km tiki tour that led to an apartment block across town instead of an old fort… oops. Wonder if it works? Leaving the hotel...
