Entering the largest country of the world I realized it’s not only very large it’s also very empty. Or maybe all Russians are on holidays, I don’t know but this emptiness reminds me of Brandenburg.

Don’t try to google Popovo, this place doesn’t exist. They just had to build another bus station to pretend there’s actually busses going along that road.

This Song I played on river Don, I hope the storm is not to loud on the recording!

I had the honour to be filmed with a proper Sony Alpha Camera by my amazing host in Kharkiv, I hope the traffic noise is not too loud. Ukraine, you’ve been very kind to me, thanks to all the lovely people I met there! – Next stop is the russian border.

The border crossing to Russia was quick and dirty. No questions, just the usual mistrustful look in my passport. And of course they always check my Kalashnikov – oh it’s just a guitar? Really? Who would have thought it!

While cycling a long slalom on a never ending road in central Ukraine I found a bus stop thats colours fit perfectly to my shirt, so I sat down and played a song about never ending roads. Anyways, I would have taken any excuse to make a stop.

Besides very friendly ukrainian people the roads are more a mental burden.

It’s like a very old c64 game I remember from the early 90, what was the name again?

To avoid problems with the border police I have to make a big circle around Crimea, the eastern Ukraine and Abkhazia, a detour of about 800km. Also I won’t be able to cycle down the Black Sea and have to choose a way through the north caucasus.

It’s really not so easy to find the ocean here but its good to be in Odessa. A very friendly athmosphere, two days of rest and ukrainian banja helped me charge up my batteries for the next leg of the tour. I played a song on Odessa’s harbour, I hope you like it!

I had the honour to spend 24 hours in this little part of Moldova which feels like a litte part of Russia. With their own money, their own flag and of course Lenin streets and statues.

Road are much better than in the rest of Moldova but it’s also less traffic. I made a little Video cycling into Tiraspol, note that this is the main road of the capital. I hope you can see a little bit of the sovjet influence and it is not too shakey. I was also a bit afraid to film because you’re not suppose to make pictures of any military facility any there’s so much military everywhere, but I didn’t have any problems.

It’s been pretty empty on the Moldovan Road but here in the capital Chisinau there’s finally people! Very nice people actually, I spend the night on the couch of the drummer of the amazing Rock Band Till The Last Drop, check them out.

It’s a real pain though to cycle in this city especially at night as due to a late snow storm in April lots of trees party fell down and cut the electricity. Now half the city lighting doesn’t work which is tricky when the roads are steep and there’s lots of holes in them.

I just had to do this, since crazy dogs seem to be about to disappear. But a few of them are left without manners. So, I’m uploading this as an evidence for the hate of dogs towards cyclists while my bottom bracket gets replaced in Iași, Romania. I hope you enjoy. I love Romania!

After two weeks of bad weather I’m happy to get my first sunburn in Romania. The dogs are actually more civilized than I was afraid and it feels good to be back in the European Union, even though it’s just for one day.

I found one amazing camp spot right next to a lake and recorded a song, here it comes!