Road explosion

Cassie:
Yep, the road we're travelling on at the moment looks like a bomb site. It's up there with the M56 on the way to Magadan as one of the worst roads we've driven to date. But, weirdly it's not bothering us. There's a stretch of maybe 160km or so that's particularly bad which is what we were on this afternoon and will continue to be on for tomorrow morning. We were totally expecting it to be pretty rough and it's just confirmed our now educated suspicions. It's almost like no road can throw us now. Bring it on!

Aktobe was a good rest stop. We did absolutely nothing and didn't set foot outside of the hotel grounds other than to go to the supermarket while we were there, and that doesn't worry me one iota. We were just too tired to go walkies around the place and figured a good rest was in order. It proved to be a good plan of attack because, despite a crappy sleep last night thanks to a tiny, uncomfortable bed, we still feel on top of the world and have loads of energy.

On our way out of Aktobe today we ended up smack in the middle of a market place. Oops, took a wrong turn somewhere along the line. We got out of that shamozzle but got an interesting look at the backstage of the markets as we had to sit and wait for trucks to reverse into the tiniest of spaces so their goods could be unloaded. Mad, organised chaos.

Graeme is our cook tonight which is wonderful. He's whipping up sausages, eggs and tomato with some bread to mop up the runny egg yolks. Tasty stuff.