Santa Claus is coming to town/Mental Moldova

The border hugging road was the right choice!

We went through the tiniest of villages and out of the blue, Santa
hopped out of Christmas crackers and started dishing out pressies to
the local kids.

Amazing smiles from the local kids, in fact one burst into tears when
she didn't get one, do Santa had to go back and say she had been nice,
not naughty. Excellent Work.

Breakfast cabbage, blanket restaurants, taxi drivers drunker than us
and general bedlam.

We have arrived in Moldova, safe sound and confused. So we set off for
Ukraine, in an 160 wheel convoy.