Krasnoyarsk - Novosibirsk fri 22 July 890Km- 13.5 hrs of driving !!!!

Krasnoyarsk - Novosibirsk fri 22 July 890Km- 13.5 hrs of driving

We left Krasnoyarsk at 7 ish 12C pouring rain, local streets flooded and very dull lighting for first few hours.

I shared the driving with greg first and then Veronika in the land rover.

Lovely rolling country but often big dips in road. farmers out cutting Hay, and very basic methods of raking, Rolling the soil,Paddocks of rape seed.

No fences of course so wary of  cows etc. There is so much feed this year after a massive drought last year
Quite a few rivers and big catchments.
More road accidents, a motorcycle and car. Travelled thru an old village after lunch (roadside stop, boil the billy and make sandwiches, all quite tasty).

Back yards around the country houses tend to be in potatoes. Traffic police out and about, but sometimes they are only cardboard cutouts.The 'ANC' ouposts
don't seem to be manned all the time these days.
Comming into the next city seems to be an art not a science, though maybe Murray's Gps is better, we have noticed the actual roads and the signage can be
misleading, and could have you spun off into the boonies or back the way youve come.
Novosibirsk is a very modern city, we stayed in an old compulsory government hotel, now renovated, and went to a bar for T, no english menu, but ah !!
one with pictures and they nabbed a passerby who spoke good english to confirm the orders.
we met some Italians in the dedicated Toyota L/C camper trucks who had just crossed the Gobi like us. many grey-nomads around out Skiing.

Had a day wandering, old churches, and then a trip out to the zoo for a bit of watching before the big drive.
We took a tolley bus which V & G hadn't encountered so was a life time experience with a very crowded bus on the way back with a little bit of frottage
thrown in for luck for V. It's amazing how the management can get their own guide to escort them to the Zoo while we make doo !!.
But, I had asked the hotel receptionist to write down our request to get to the zoo and bus number, and on the reverse side how to get home, our very amourous
bus-conductors was just too happen to oblige.

We found a restaurant with english subtitles and own brewed beer, and the we found a supermarket to buy tucker for tomorrow's lunch. The city clock chimed pleasantly every half hour.
We had the trucks washed by commercial cleaners with some wonderful degreasing fluid, the cars just dried off and were very clean, a high light for Greg.