So it would seem that my slaving away writing to provide you all with 4 months of high quality free entertainment isn’t enough….
….some of you seem to think that I should explain myself and my plans as such….
Usually I’d just tell y’all to fuck off.
But what the hell……so……
Contra presents:
Yalta….The Reprise Summer Mix
(No I haven’t taken up DJ’ing…..one Ben Parker is enough!_
You may recall that I have mentioned a chap named Marcus who owns the Hostel in Kyiv….Well ol’ Marcus has a few of these enterprises scattered around the Ukraine and has a wider informal network of Hostel owners.
Seems that Marcus offered me some work when we met in Yalta….but since nothing was concrete I continued to travel back into Russia and on to Rostov-on-Don and to Stalin/Volgograd.
When I arrived in Stalingrad I was left facing some hard choices
1. From Stalingrad, continue east and I’d be in Kazahkstan within a few hours…..
2. From Stalingrad head south to Astrahkan on the Caspian Sea, then into Chechnya, and into Georgia……(War zones aside…this seemed the most likely option)
Until
3. Marcus rang..told me that if I wanted to come back to the Ukraine I could use the truck and trailer to deliver bunk beds all over the Ukraine as they are setting up some new hostels…..that didn’t really sound too appealing….
Until
He said that after the deliveries he needed someone to work in his new hostel in Yalta situated on the seafront for the summer season…someone who could also work in the Kiev hostel when he and his girlfriend wanted to work in Yalta for a break…..
So…get paid to drive my truck around Ukraine for a month or so?
Then, spend the summer holiday season in Yalta?
Free Accomodation on the beach?
With my own transportation?
hmmmm…….lets see
Summering in Kazahkstan
…..Chechnya
……Yalta?
Well Duh!
So thats my summer taken care of….and I’m planning on maybe doing some 4×4 day tours to the Submarine Base (See Balaklava Post) and to to the Black Sea Command Post (See Object 221 Post)…just for a bit of fun and cash!
So…if any of you need an exotic vacation in the sunshine….please feel free to contact me for information about accommodation, travel arrangements, and tours etc…………
…..in Bognor.
PS…If you leave a message here I’ll send you an email when travel resumes……………I doubt whether a blog about running a traveller hostel in a gorgeous ex-Soviet Holiday spot for the summer surrounded by young Russian tourists on the lash would be entertaining……….
(but I might be wrong).
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