The night was very hot, probably also because I was so low and the mosquitos were annoying already after sunrise. Thus, I started relatively early.
I found some strawberries on my way, lost the trail again and got my shoes wet when crossing a small stream to get back on track.
Since I was close to the Ukraine border, there was police around. The first car with people and a dog only greeted, but the second controlled my passport. They didn't speak English, but seems like they were only concerned that I walked over boarder.
When I reached the road to the border I was very surprised to see it basically being dead. It looked like a big road in my map and i had expected a busy road. So I walked along an empty road for the last kms to my hotel, feasted on mulberries and saw some storch clattering on the power lines.
At my hotel, which is a restaurant with some rooms, nobody spoke English and it wasn't open when I arrived. But it opened at 10 am and then I still had to wait. So I decided to walk the few km into 'town'. Found a health center, where also nobody spoke English, but found out that I can't do a corona test there, which I had expected. So I bought some food and a small ice cream in the little store, before heading back to my hotel. It was lunchtime and the people of the hotel/restaurant were very busy. But I got a three bed room and then took a really long shower :) Since they were so busy, I didn't ask for a washing machine, but washed my cloths in the shower. At the end they were still dripping dirty water, but better than before and I was too lazy to spend more time on washing.
The afternoon passed with me trying to find out where and how I can get a corona test. According to my research, there are places to get a test in Snina, which is about 45 mins bus ride from here. But only for people with Slovakian residence and not for people like me, who have to pay! Then there are private test laboratories in Kosice, about another 100 km further, which all seem to do PCR only. But you have to register and the first date available would be the 3rd of July and it takes them 24 to 48 h to give you the results :/
So the plan is to take the bus to Snina tomorrow late morning and hope for the best! If it's too much hassle, I might have to skip the Ukraine (which would be about 2-3 weeks of hiking) and walk through Hungary, which would be really sad. I certainly wouldn't follow the mountains!!!!
There were only many things I wanted to do, but the time just passed and I still haven't figures out my.rpute or resupply yet... And I would prefer my tent to the room at the moment cause it is so humid hot here under the roof. But at least it's dry, cause there were some thunderstorms today (not too bad though) and I got an SMS warning from bad thunderstorms again. But it seems like the weather will stay like that the next few days, so I might wish I would have a room like I have now ;)
If thebunlikely event happens and I manage to get into the Ukraine tomorrow, this might be my last blog post for a while. Leaving the EU, there is no roaming and I'm not sure yet, if I will buy a local SIM card or not! But of course I will continue writing and upload it, whenever I have Wifi or latest when I enter Romania!
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