Setting off my sat nav was having another bad day, not finding any satellites. You would have thought with the amount of hardware sot into space over the former Soviet Union, there would be no problem in locating some.Anyway, once I had some directions, I stopped meandering around the town, and headed out with a purpose. As I passed out of the town limits, I felt a little sad, I had enjoyed my time there, it seemed so very different from England, refreshingly d...

Breakfast at the hotel was, interesting. The menu, in Ukrainian only, didn't really have anything to interest me, so I asked for fresh orange and scrambled egg. The eggs were presented like an omelette, had no taste and were covered in a layer of grease. When the bill came the orange was 3 times more expensive than anything else. Two valuable lessons learned again this morning. My friend, and English teacher in the local University, had to go into work for ...

OH MY GOD! I headed out after escaping the annoying kid, to discover how bad the roads actually are. I had been told they were bad, but nothing, NOTHING, would have prepared me for this. Heading away from the crossing, through a small village of small wooden houses, who all came out to look at my bike, and stare as if I was a UFO. The road sign said humps in the road and 30KPH by each one. Now it was nice to be warned about these smooth regular shaped bumps in t...

My throat is OK this morning and I only have a small cough, sure it was just the awful ride yesterday I set off this morning at about 7 am to get a good early border crossing. How wrong was I, I didn't get to the boarder until about noon. The roads twix Krakow and Medyka (the border crossing to the Ukraine) were awful. The first part of the trip outside Krakow was OK, some dual lane highway and some wide roads for easy overtaking. Moving further, the roads becam...

I think my sat nav heard what I was saying about AI and was in a strop this morning. The damn thing would not talk to me. I tested all the bike's communication wires, double checked my helmet, and tested other sounds through the same cables. I decided to head off anyway, 30 minutes by the side of the road is too long for such a minor issue. I headed off down the cobbles, then nearly fell off with shock as the sat nav sprang to life louder than ever.Back on t...