Leather Couch Cold Weather Storage

All good things come to an end, we took the road to begin the last quarter of our journey. But let us Kiev without any probably good memories (no I'm not talking about the fairer sex).
In any case, and undoubtedly the most beautiful city we have traversed so far. The neoclassical architecture, the monumental buildings from the Soviet era and domes of churches give the city an atmosphere that is both antiquated and ambience of a living museum ... Paradoxically, the city seems to bubble up and releases a surprising dynamism!

Church of the Monastery of the Catacombs.


Monastery Saint-Nicolas.



We mingled with dozens of pilgrims to contemplate the mummies of monks exposed inside underground tunnels under the Laure ...

We made discrete, however, is well recognized Geraldine foreground in red dress ....


my beard ... And I can also go unnoticed.


The inescapable centrality of the City, which was the epicenter of the Orange Revolution in 2004 ...

"From this terrace, 6 years of history look down upon you ..."


Alas, thrice alas, has decided to punish us God: Thursday afternoon, Geraldine decided to change the color, thinking the white and green pistachio suit her complexion ... Then it decreed that the toilets would henceforth be his resort for some time. You know what it is, we can only rely on its true amoebas, and that was the case during the 36 hours that followed ... Big reunion, therefore, between Geraldine and his little souvenir of Madagascar won two years ago.
Phew everything is back to normal (and yet, there were, disorder), and we're back on the road ...
And Shanghai? ... A real watch. Star Travel stoically continues to eat up the miles and extend the distance record ... His cool kiss-double effect is always irresistible: first surprise of people who do not get to see an electric car can have already crossed the entire continent of Asia, then stir us to find something to recharge and thereby contribute to the continuation of the adventure ....

in the suburbs Kiev, two brothers and their friends carpenters we can "refuel" in their workshop ....


Poland approach, soon Europe with twelve blue stars! (Well ... it depends on customs).

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11,000 km! 2nd small balance ...

Face it, this second part of journey was not easy, but just as exciting ...
After the 5,000 km in China, here are the 5000 other crossed in Central Asia, with Kazakhstan, and Russia (Siberia, Urals and Volga Basin). arrived in Kiev, capital of Ukraine , we can now make a second brief assessment of this expedition Venturi Citroen.

After the Chinese deserts, the steppes of Asia, here are the main cultivated meadows ...


First, emphasize the positive: the first trans-Asian electric vehicle has just been completed, and with it the world distance record.
side contact, meetings as beautiful course. the electric vehicle is much more abstract in these countries than it was in China. In Central Asia, it is stressed above all the side "economic" concept, albeit with a liter of unleaded less than 50 cents, one can understand that this is not a problem as acute as in Europe ...
However, most people interviewed were impressed by the high technology related to this adventure. It is true that they say comes from Shanghai without a drop of gasoline, when it lies on the banks of the Volga, it starts to do ....

Each day new progress is a small victory that we celebrate when we can: here, in full camera stolen in a central Russian city, 2.5 seconds before being whistled by the police ... .


Unlike what has been found in China, we saw no trace of development related to new energies. That said, last June 24, Obama and Medvedev on the sidelines of the G8 summit, have agreed to jointly explore ways to find alternatives to fossil fuels. An early ?.... To answer
Redcat the ways we communicate in our trade, they were more than limited. In China, our little knowledge of the language has helped us to get us out of most situations. In terms of Kazakhstan or Russia (as in Ukraine now), it was much harder. English is spoken nowhere. Here Russian is the language that serves as vernacular, or possibly German language back (whew, that was my second language in college, but it was good in the last century, already). Gestures, onomatopoeia, drawings, are the means we used to make us understand. In terms of our critical vocabulary (380, 220, three phase, neutral, ground, amp), we learned a few days, by regular scenarios.

ignition in connivance guaranteed!


The most important thing to note is that even in these contexts barrier language, new situation for our stakeholders, and whatever the location, it was possible to find something to recharge our "Shanghai" every day!

Ge and "Shanghai" ready to conquer the last quarter of the journey ....


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