Ok, so it was not a dream! We had really slept in a bungalow in this magical, clean little **** camping resort in the middle of nowhere.

After a hardy Ukrainian breakfast, we picked up our bikes. Thank God they were still there! And hit the road. It was somewhat of a nice ride, I say somewhat because, the scenery was great and very different from what I had ever seen before, but the roads! Ah, the roads were rough! Holes and bumps, gravels and cracks were dancing in front my eyes! I had to constantly lift my arm to prevent it from being shaken up.

At 1pm I was already pretty tired so we stopped and Chris set up the hammock. I just crashed, oblivious to the constant noise of the crazy traffic!

It was getting late and it was getting time to find food and a place to sleep. Now food was already tough to find but we managed to buy a few cookies, Ukrainian bread, and sausage and chocolate, it was not a feast but when you are starving, you are pretty happy with what you have.

It was getting dark and I was ready to sleep on the side of the road when we thought it would be better to ask a farmer if we could set up our tent on his field. After a few attempts and lots of miming we found a very nice farmer that took us right to his house and offered us a field to put up our tent in, water and a shed for our bikes.

We were so happy. We set up everything and began eating our feast of bread and chocolate. It was then 9 pm when the farmer came back from the field, he saw us eating and somewhat tried to explain, we could have warm water to make our coffee he invited me to follow him to his house, to my surprise, I finally understood that his wife had prepared us supper, a huge bowl of borsht, bread, lemonade, pickles and of course vodka!! I could not believe it! How nice of them to offer a meal to foreign tourists like us! I wish I hadn't eaten all that bread and chocolate! I was already full but I was not going to refuse such a great meal! However I didn't drink the vodka; I just had a taste! It was really strong and the farmer was getting a kick out of watching me cringe when tasting it!

It was the first time I tasted borsht and I have to say it s quite good except for the sour cream which I don t like so much. It was then time to go to bed, a sleep well deserved!