October 17th - Arrival and meeting Jason The train arrived really early in the morning, at about 6am, before dawn in Sevastopol. Fortunately, the town bus starts early and as per-Jason's text I made my way to Malahov Korgahan, where he has got out of bed to meet me, and we headed back for some more sleep, followed by breakfast. He took the afternoon off, I sleep for the morning, and we head out to Balaklava on a series of Mashrutkas after lunch time. This was the first warm sunny day I'd seen since Slovenia, where I'd lost my sunglasses, so I bought a pair of 15 glivna glasses, for the journey. On the way out to Balaklava, we passed through the Valley of Death (from Tennyson's famous poem, and quite a few Irish songs too).
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