8 1/2 days “on the road” - there is to much to tell. I wanted to wrtite a log, but my preparations where so chaotic, I forgot to pack a pen.
ok, first of all I want to say thanks. to all the people who gave me a lift, of course, for driving and the 100’s od coffees and the conversation, even or especially if it just was that, what i could do in russian - or body language of course.
thanks to B. for organizing my boat trip over the black sea.

I have to be detailed at this point: it was not easy to find a suitable boat to ukraina. at last I had a peace of paper with two numbers - one of B’s friend, which was considered to be my friend now, and one of somebody working in the RoRo-Truck-Ferry Company’s Headquarter. I was instructed to go to the harbour and ask for this guy. At the harbour there was nobody but some border police and customs at a gate. a little bit unsure I asked for this guy and evryone new him and my ne friend, but both werent there. one phonecall, and evrything was cleared. I was pleased to go on the ferry.
entereing the ferry, there was nobody. just the empty freight room, which should be filled with trucks during the night. I was climbing some narrow steps up, deck 1, deck 2, ond deck 3 I found the first persons. I told them, that I am a passenger and they found sombody to find me a room.
slowly more and more truckseached the ship and at the end, the next morning, about 50 men where on board. evrybody knowing each other, but a little bit separated in two groups. the turks in the big restaurant room and the “russian” which ment basicly evrybody not being turk, so called because they used russian as lingua franka - in the other. only men. The “Russian” TV was showing action movies about russian army elite troops in Kavkas. The Turk TV music shows of arabesc pop. playing Tavla (Backgammon) or this rommee style game, I don’t knoe the name of.
all in all I spent nearly two days on the ship. being kind of integrated as the tourist arkadas, more in the turk part of this special society, as my language abilities where making me communicating there more, and as the ammount of alcohol drunk there was less and so conversation a little bit more comfortable.