6 mar 2013

Omsk: the day of broken rules

The way from Yekaterinburg to Omsk is about 1.005 km. More or less, 14 hours driving in bad conditions.

That day, we broke all the rules of this kind of trips:

We were fast: so we had a fine from the police: 30 minutes talking in English with one police officer who only speaks Russian. That was completely useless. The only solution was offer him 50 € to get back our car documents.

 
DPS (Police) office

We didn’t rest: only stop, to re-fuel, and take one single picture

Random Lenin Statue

We drove at night: bad idea in this road conditions, low visibility, slippery surface, kamikaze truck drivers without lights, and so on…

The road at night
 
We slept in the car: at -8º C outside, we had to turn on the engine to get some heating in the car. The comfort was inexistent.

Please, don’t do it.