Day 138 Aug 25 Sat Goodbye Russia and Welcome Trabzon,Turkey

Sunrise on the Black Sea

Met a couple from Turkey

Real eagle for tourist to take picture for a fee
Sea side beach in Sochi

Not many people waiting for the ship
Goodbye Sochi,Russia

Today's spending: 591 rur
Total Distance to date: 9036 km
Total spending to date: 10282 rur

As the ferry only leave Trabzon at 1800hr,we spent our morning and afternoon in internet after checkout from Hotel at noon .I still left about 200 rur to do a last minute shopping while Heather bought a whole roasted chicken. We wheeled our bikes to a gate and saw a group of about 60-80 peoples already waiting,we asked whether this is the place to board the ship,a woman answered "yes ! what time the ship come we don't know" True enough,we waited outside the gate from 5 - 8.30pm. And when finally the gate opened,a few policemen were there to check the document,we were again stopped eventhough we have a paper registration from Hotel Moscow/They demamded 50 usd each but we again applied the same tactic,ignored them and sat aside. Waiting game starts, Heather again pullout her handset pretend to call,the situation became tense and had me worried cos' we can't play this game for long as the ship won't wait for us, a rather different from the 1st encounter . As the Q thins out to the last person, one of them called us andhe reduced the money from 50 to 20 usd with our pasport in his hand, we sensed a light of hope not paying anything " No,No Money" at the same time showing him my empty wallet. He finally gave up and returned our pasport showing us to proceed to the immigration counter. "Ha ... Ha...Ha. we won the battle against the police for the 2nd time!!!!!! It really makes you feel proud and great!After having our pasport stamped and panniers scanned ,without any problem , we wheeled our bikes into a storage room sandwiched with other luggages . Finally we were on our way , "Goodbye Russia and Spasiba. Hope to see you again but pls get rid of those annoying rules .........