27 April 2009Bush camp last night on a blissfully beautiful and goddamned cold site, between snow-capped mountains on one side and a lake with only a few dead fish on the other. I'm told sunrise was worth getting up for, but I think that's a filthy lie. NB: don't drink lake water in Bulgaria.
Absolutely freezing last night, as frigid as it's been. Thank christ for the thermals. I would give David's left arm for another fleece right now. Chilly and grey, although it was sunny in Bulgaria.
And on the subject of Bulgaria—really very nice. Poor, but loads cleaner than Romania, rubbish tip-wise, and, I think, nicer people. Stopped at a Russian Orthodox church on a hill, the outside in vivid coloured ceramic tiles and the roof of pure gold. After the queasy-making trip through mountain passes—in the clouds and snow, at 1180 metres or so—happy to be in a nice flat valley, even with a gilded Russian church for company.
As previously mentioned, now we're waiting on the Turkish authorities to let the truck in for two weeks. You can't complete the paperwork before time, you have to fill it all in here (in no-man's land), they fax it to Ankara, and wait on a fax back. Currently waiting on the back part. They've already stamped all our passports with visas, so we can get in, it's just the truck that's an issue.
Quite strange to be leaving Europe—or at least, Christian Europe. Have driven from London in the last two weeks, through nine countries, two alphabets, several faiths, one hotel, six campgrounds, and three bushcamps. And a lot of peeing in the woods.
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