Rubbish nights sleep after camping paranoia with cars and mopeds stopping to look at the camp site on a regular basis.

Submitted by Biscuits on Sat, 12/07/2008 - 7:21pm.

Rubbish nights sleep after camping paranoia with cars and mopeds stopping to look at the camp site on a regular basis... Stopped by police twice, but not knowing any russian and smiling lots got us away without even having to show the documents we queued for 3 hours to get which was little disappointing so we tried running a police car off the road and they didn't even stop us... Boo. Camping just east of Ufa, about 3 km off road. Dragon flies and wasps the size of buses but we've got sharp sticks and it's very secluded.

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