Am.back! Dog shelter. Tough place. Lots of work on little food but am a little sick of thinking about it. At once a harrowing and amazing experience. Toughest place have ever been for sure Now.in Transnistria a breakaway republic that wants the USSR to still be alive. Unfortunately it is not (well for Transnistria). But this region has always been much more russian than elsewhere in Moldova and Putin happily uses it as leverage to prevent Moldova acceidng to th...

Am finally in Chisinau!! I actually really like the city. Came with low expectations, now it ranks high among my favourite European cities. The journey over was surprisingly painless. The sleeper train was more comfy and safer than feared. Was up to see sunrise after a decent kip of about 6hours. After a McDonald's breakfast was on the bus to the border, all smooth sailing! We did get a puncture 5minutes into Moldova...but this was soon resolved and whilst I ...