A Gift of Smelly Fish
Some of our legs in Russia are huge, in order to make them possible our Russian friends have arranged fuel for us at certain Hicksville locations. Today is a big day for the outback. We are of to Anadyr but have to stop of at Manily on route. Manily is in the middle of nowhere and is not on all our maps. Manily is great! It is a small, very small airstrip, but they have jet A. On arrival we are great by a the local, no bureaucracy here,! I need a pee so while Peter is organising the fuel imhead to the outhouse. A true outhouse! It was a wooden hut with just a hole to a ditch, great stuff!
As I am in the office area i will sign for the fuel. The airport manager is a woman who gives me a big, and I mean big bag of fish. The fish are real smelly but fres. This is a fishing town. What do i do, it is a gift, it will e rude to refuse, but we cannot take them on the helicopter. I have to decline and explain that we only have one night left in Russia and so much fish is impossible to consume, all done via google,translate.
Our turn around it quickmall is god and of to Anadyr to be ripped off by a shady handler.
We arrive in Anadyr an are greated officials asking silly questions, where have we been; provide details and refer him to our website, where are you going, provide details and refer him to website. Not interested in the website, we must tell him. Well to be honest we are tired and just start makeing up our route, why does he need to know, we have the permits from up above!
FinLly get to,the "hotel" by the airport and find out that is is some kind of holiday and the shops will not serve / sell us beer. Our luck this trip has been impeccably bad. Maybe this is Peter's influence.
The hotel is very utilitarian! Dinners just bread!
As I am in the office area i will sign for the fuel. The airport manager is a woman who gives me a big, and I mean big bag of fish. The fish are real smelly but fres. This is a fishing town. What do i do, it is a gift, it will e rude to refuse, but we cannot take them on the helicopter. I have to decline and explain that we only have one night left in Russia and so much fish is impossible to consume, all done via google,translate.
Our turn around it quickmall is god and of to Anadyr to be ripped off by a shady handler.
We arrive in Anadyr an are greated officials asking silly questions, where have we been; provide details and refer him to our website, where are you going, provide details and refer him to website. Not interested in the website, we must tell him. Well to be honest we are tired and just start makeing up our route, why does he need to know, we have the permits from up above!
FinLly get to,the "hotel" by the airport and find out that is is some kind of holiday and the shops will not serve / sell us beer. Our luck this trip has been impeccably bad. Maybe this is Peter's influence.
The hotel is very utilitarian! Dinners just bread!
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