I SUDDENLY felt very underprepared. The VW Polo wasn’t made for this. With the hire car dancing around the pot hole-riddled trail in the depths of Lord-Knows-Where, Leningrad Oblast, I was increasingly concerned I might hear a fatal clunk. The route wasn’t my choice. Google Maps had suggested it to avoid a traffic jam. Little did Google know, but it would be hard to get up to 60km/h on these side roads without causing cataclysmic damage to the car. Crawling along, we probably added about 20 minutes and not a little stress to the journey.
The rocky road to Lake Ladoga
The rocky road to Lake Ladoga
The rocky road to Lake Ladoga
I SUDDENLY felt very underprepared. The VW Polo wasn’t made for this. With the hire car dancing around the pot hole-riddled trail in the depths of Lord-Knows-Where, Leningrad Oblast, I was increasingly concerned I might hear a fatal clunk. The route wasn’t my choice. Google Maps had suggested it to avoid a traffic jam. Little did Google know, but it would be hard to get up to 60km/h on these side roads without causing cataclysmic damage to the car. Crawling along, we probably added about 20 minutes and not a little stress to the journey.