2011-7-26 to Nyomen

2011-7-26 to Nyomen

Left Omsk for Nyomem passing thru a beautiful inner city and past the Omsk Cathedral out into the country past my Millenium department store where I bought a hat which gives me an air of sophistication not otherwise seen in an Aussie hat. Has a tendency to blow away, but Georgie is quick.

Was able to use my Mastercard which saved my stack of Roubles.

Crossed the river and huge flood plain and headed out into the country.

Lots of hay made this time round bales. Even saw new subdivisions. The land is flat for miles

. A lot of maize grown as well as pasture, but found huge

sheds with cows and graineries, looked like houses. We saw low-loaders carrying knocked down Harvesters east on the road.

The Silver birch trees appear to have been killed, by drought last year, snow ?, or wet feet this year. Whole stands just bare !.

We visited a small down for bread, cheese and cold meat and then travelled on to a lake for lunch. A fisherman offered us some of his catch but we

declined. Gas is reticulated by pipe about 8 feet in the air along the boundary, higher at gateways.

We`often see fuel tankers parked at intersections, selling to local farmers ?. Big flood plains out in the country with bridges with groynes.

We see the odd speed boat being towed as the rives ar huge and used for sport.

Road graders all have bulldozer blades and we see them using them repeatably. Many rollers used as they seem to lock off a lane and completely
rebuild it in a day so lots of paving machines about which often means construction bumps 100mmm high, not nice at a 100 klicks.
A big day, as we stuck the usual traffic jam so arrived wornout thou we hadn't done huge Km's 500+.
the Boys went to a German Bier Haus for a meal and blackout and Dined by Candlelight while it was still light outside, no power but the bier flowed and they had gas so a BBQ meal was OK.