While spending the last days in Kiev, the feeling that we have stayed in the city for too long, never really left me. It was time to move on. I think it is kind of tricky with cities, if you stay in one place for a long time you start to become lazy, you get used to the comfort which cities offer and as a result, you end up spending too much time and money. Of course we also did something useful in Kiev, if “filming” a short hyperlapse video can be regarded as something useful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc9RkejUOig). One way or the other, on 8th October we finally got back on the road.

Crimean red sparkling wine. We tasted it on the last evening in Kiev, but unfortunately it was not tasty.
In the morning we packed our panniers and, together with our host Roman, drove to the central train station. The plan was to get from Kiev to the Moldavian (Transnestrian) border (to the city Kotovsk) using Ukrainian train network and then to jump on our cycles and pedal to Chisinau. I can almost hear people asking me “How can you call yourself bicycle tourist, if you are travelling with trains all the time?” I can almost hear myself answering this imaginary question “Firstly, to travel by trains in Ukraine is even cheaper that to travel by bicycles. Secondly, these trains are almost like social clubs where you get to know a lot about people travelling with you. Thirdly, it is a lot faster to travel by train and as we have to be in Crimea on 1st November, train is our only option to see more.” Actually, this was neither the first, nor the last time, when I had similar discussions with myself.
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