Wednesday 16 April - Slobozia to Braila, 115 km. Not a very interesting day. Long straight roads, huge endless fields, some ploughed and some with crops. Yellow fields of rape as far as the eye can see. At Braila a reception at the town hall, dinner at a restaurant 7 km away, and slept in a gym. Quite a good one, hot showers. Thursday 17 April - Braila to Albota de Jos (Moldavia), 122 km. Went through Galati, a very big prosperous town on the Danube, with huge docks with rows of cranes, and a shipyard. It is unfortunately downwind of a huge steel works - Mittal Steel Rumania. Passed the frontier into Moldavia, which took some time, and pedaled off with a police escort. The policemen refused a photo but I got one with a
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