Blogs from Tiraspol, Transnistria, Moldova, Europe
Tiraspol, Transnistria - A Real Life Communist Breakaway Republic
Published: July 14th 2010Europe » Moldova » Transnistria » Tiraspol
July 9th 2010
“Let me tell you a Russian joke,” said Madhia, the beautiful Moldovan woman who, for the last few hours, had been acting as our guide in Transnistria. “It is about a man with a fifty-centremetre dick who meets a witch.” As Madhia told the joke, Michael and I listened, all the while coming to terms with the fact that we’d almost finished our day-trip to a genuine breakaway republic. Indeed the first time I’d even heard of Transnistria was on a BBC program entitled Holidays in the Danger Zone, and now we were sat in a bar there! ”Because of the size of his dick,” continued Madhia, in that sexy accent only women from Eastern Europe can deliver, “no woman was willing to marry him and so he was forced to see a witch.” By the ... read more
No embassy protection beyond this line.
Published: August 8th 2009Europe » Moldova » Transnistria » Tiraspol
August 8th 2009
Transnistria Wikipedia - Transnistria Having met our new dutch friends, Vicky no longer felt obliged to go to a territory where she might never come back from so I (Fiona) headed off for the adventure! Obviously, given the night before it was rather a later start than planned... but we made it to the central bus station around midday and headed off to Transnistria in a negotiated private car with some other randoms. After some standard perilous driving, we arrived at the border and definitely on our best behaviour. Now we'd heard all sorts of stories about the border control - bribes, fines, threats etc etc. We had prepared ourselves with some dollars and thought we could blag it. But, suprisingly, absolutely no need. It was a perfectly simple border crossing! We filled out a form, ... read more
TRANSNISTRIA'S CORRUPT BORDER GUARDS
Published: September 5th 2008Europe » Moldova » Transnistria » Tiraspol
September 2nd 2008
Early morning we got ready to do a day trip to Tiraspol, capital of the self proclaimed republic of Transnistria, perhaps only Russia recognizes it, anyway you cant stay for longer than 6-8 hours in the area if you try to spend the night, will be lots of hassle, there is a border we need to cross and we heard bad things about the way customs deal with foreigners says our homestay host but we really wanted to get there so we wing it. took the minibus to the Central bus station, where we were supposed to meet Tuuka and Yarom our 2 Finnish friends we met on the bus from Brasov to Chisinau. Got there no sign of them so we looked up the terminal where the minibus leaves for Tiraspol, found it and bought ... read more
Transdneistria - A Soviet Museumpiece.
Published: August 3rd 2006Europe » Moldova » Transnistria » Tiraspol
June 30th 2006
Day 50, 20th July. Sângera - Benderi (TRANSDNIESTRA) - Tiraspol - Stepova (UKRAINE) Andrew swam across the lake early to wish us well on our way, and we carried on east along the road in hot weather again. The roads were different than we were used to. Virtually empty of people, no horses and carts, no workers in the fields. Just before Benderi the landscape became wild and completely unused; then, a checkpoint with a Russian tank guarding it, we were waved through. Then the border control of the self-proclaimed Trandniestran Moldovan Republic. It was a time-capsule of the Soviet Union, hammer and sickle emblems on the guards caps and also on the coins we found out later. There were a collection of little huts, and in one we were ‘sold’ transit visas for $5 each! ... read more
