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Originally Posted by motoreiter
.. after leaving Romania, you can enter Ukraine along the Izmail road after a mile and a half in Moldova?
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That's exactly right. The northern-ish road east of the Moldova-Ukraine border crossing darts back in to Moldova which I guess slows you down: the Izmail road is rutted and, err, interesting, but much more straightforward.
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Originally Posted by motoreiter
I've got more detailed maps on Ukraine on the way, so I guess it will all be clear once I have those...Google maps of this area is almost blank...
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Don't forget the place you're most likely to find maps of Ukraine is.. Ukraine. GoogleMap scared the bejeebus out of my Pa.. he couldn't understand why I'd entered a country with absolutely no roads!
It's an anachronism, this route. You can pretty much see from the Romanian border to the Ukranian one. Build a road 200 metrres closer to the coast and you'd avoid Moldova altogether. And you'd think Ukraine and Romania would benefit from a common border post, not least so that commercial vehicles could cross without punitive taxes and long delays from Moldova. Why hasn't that happened? Take yr pick from local politics, national politics, international politics, corruption, gangsterism or poverty. Probably. Still, you get a pretty Moldovan stamp in yr passport.
--Mike
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