The Izmail road is the one you want. It's a relatively good road and it doesn't zigzag back into Moldova [I think it's safe to assume any border crossing will take a while.. if it's open! Incidentally, I got so much conflicting info from people even five miles away from border posts.. locals don't cross the borders if they can possibly help it. There's a peculiar lack of interest in their immediate neighbours.. but that's another story.]

There's a bridge -- you ride alongside and just below the railway line. Quite nifty. All clearly signposted. There's a few hotels/ campsites down there but I would recommend heading on in to Odessa.

-- from another thread.
It's frustrating - Ukraine is a mile or so away but you're right, there are no roads. And no ferries. The gun-waving racist Ceauşescu apologist I met the night before crossing the border[s] did suggest getting me smuggled over on a fishing boat. He also mentioned a fee of $600. And that he'd never heard of anybody doing it.. I wonder why?!

As i wrote of my crossing.. in Beside the Seaside .. "I was through, into Ukraine and reached the village of Orlivka, a mile across the Danube from Isaccea [the Romanian village I'd started from], after no more than five and three-quarter hours and 77 miles. [Average speed.. I'm obsessed.. 13.391304 mph]"


There's a kiosk on the Ukraine side of the Ukraine-Moldova border post at Giurgiulesti. Nice bloke. Smokes roll-ups. Can't add up to save his life -- so I hope his calculator is still working. He'll sell you a green card for what seemed to be a good price. I don't think the green card covers Russia, mind. They prefer to get you to buy their own insurance. And don't get me started on their attitude to visas...

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