Day 18

A fairly easy driving day after another camp on the Black Sea shore (with no hot water in the shower as usual).

Arrived in Trabson at 1pm and found the ferry office fairly easily but had our usual problem of turning up one wrong street and taking 20 minutes to turn round a Land Rover and trailer.

Ferry booking, customs clearance and boarding would have done any African state proud. Total chaos with nobody having the slightest idea what was going on. We are now on board and believe we will sail in about 6 hours to Sochi in Russia, 12 hours away. The only thing not typical of Africa is the price - US$620 for the van and 2 people.

Hope the food is good.