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| August 3rd 2006. Having mislaid their breakfast tickets in the previous evening's joviality, SCR are informed that the meal is 'not possible', even if their hotel receipt is presented and clearly mentions that breakfast has been paid for. The reception staff eventually take pity and issue them with new ones, although abandoning their morning bureaucracy is clearly not a pleasant experience. Armed with the correct documentation, the breakfast machine functions well, producing treacly coffee, orthodox eggs, and small chunks of meaty pink. They decide to buy a map of Russia to aid future navigation. The map to the map shop is inadequate, but a friendly suited gentleman guides them by Hyundai. They purchase what seems to be the best road atlas on offer, but when it fails to shed any light on where they are in Samara or how they might escape, they return and buy another which is very slightly better. The only things more damaging to attempted navigation than Russian maps are Russian road signs. They pick towns along roads at random, flit between Russian and English spellings, and are often entirely untrue. At one junction, two signs point point different ways to the same town. SCR choose unwisely, and drive in a scenic circle of 30km circumference along muddy unmetalled tracks. They eventually reach the 'M5' to Ufa regardless, and camp on some more tasty hills just out of eye-shot from the road. |
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