Cernivci

The hitch the next day was one of the easiest, we had a little picnic in Adjud then left around midday... the first car stopped and an elderly woman took us to Bacau, to the correct hitching place to Roman and Suceava. Romanians are wonderful, they're very helpful and friendly to foreigners. Once again, the first car stopped and took us all the way to Suceava...this time it was a young English speaking couple, when we got to Suceava they told us how to get through the city to a good hitching place. It took a while but we stopped a car that took us to Seret, the guy surprisingly asked for money - the first time it ever happened to me in Romania.. we had no romanian lei or any other currency so we could only offer bread or water. He wasn't too happy, we walked a little bit and then stopped a Ukrainian car which took us to and over the border, helping us out with the immigration cards.

He was only going to the exchange offices on the other side and we hitched a romanian who was going to get diesel from Cernivci because it's half the price. Cernivci is a nice Ukrainian city, the old town is untouched from the war and the people are friendly, the roads and transport incredibly old but it's cool. Our host - Zetlee, was a really nice girl who cooked us Borsch, showed us around the city and helped me to buy some things.