Lena is tough! – Barely back on her feet (and with a fresh splint on her forearm), she wants to continue the journey with the ArgoFram. The weather and conditions in the Sea of Azov are excellent… let’s go. Passing Mariupol again, rounding the last sandbanks of Tangarog Bay and out into the open sea, […]
Before we set off from Azov, Nicolai stopped by and brought us some freshly prepared fish for the journey … And Alexei warned us urgently to be careful. If the wind comes from the west in Tangarog Bay, it can whip up the waves and make the journey very uncomfortable. The wind came from the […]
Today we only get as far as Azov, once the north-easternmost polis of the Hellenes … Today it is a pleasant place at the mouth of the Don on the Sea of Azov, with a large port and transhipment infrastructure in the western part of the city. Lena still has to obtain confirmation that we […]
… There is no chaos in Rostov; Prigozhin and his “musicians” have moved on – I sense isolated feelings of malicious joy among the population (“finally someone is telling the leadership in Moscow what’s what”) and that’s it. The markets are overflowing with agricultural products; this is probably the most fertile region in Russia. Fruit […]
We pass through the lock and descend from the reservoir into the Don, travelling along countless untamed bends in the river, past wild vegetation in places, towards Rostov-on-Don. It’s Saturday, leisure parties are out and about on the river. And on the many sandbanks, weekend holidaymakers relax along the banks. Leisure centres with pools, garden […]
The canal journey continues, as do the locks, but in fact we are only moving along the western side of Volgograd, travelling in a wide arc around this metropolis until we reach the Don, or rather a reservoir over 170 km long, which we have to navigate in a zigzag course due to shallow waters. […]
We took it easy today – a little too easy? First, we continue south on the Volga, sailing for miles alongside rows of houses on the starboard side until we reach the junction with the Volga-Don Canal and the first lock to the Don… where we have to wait until the cargo barges in front […]
The journey with the AgroFram on the slow-flowing Volga in this seemingly endless landscape is not very spectacular, but it is leisurely and without any incidents. Only when the first high-rise buildings appear on the horizon on the starboard side, and this silhouette accompanies us for dozens of kilometres (!), do I realise that Volgograd […]
Kamyshin is a provincial town divided into two districts with just over 100,000 inhabitants and is located on the Kamyshinka river on the western bank of the Volga. One part of the city lies to the north, the other to the south of the river mouth, which are connected by a bridge. We drive from […]
We actually wanted to go to Saratov, a 600-year-old city with a population of over 800,000 that lies high above the Volga. But its marina is located on the opposite bank of the Volga to the east, lower down, near the twin city of Engels (named after the German social theorist and communist revolutionary Friedrich […]