Bicycle Path Sign.

Bicycles (and cyclists) aren’t really favoured in Moldova — but are they anywhere, really?  I completely cancelled bikes as a method of personal transportation after a couple of borderline accident situations.  None of them were my fault, so please take my experience as a warning. If you want to bike around Kishinev, please stay safe.

Vintage-effect Poltavka Road.

Local roads don’t take freezing temperatures too well.  When the ice and snow come off, they turn into one continuous pothole that rarely ever gets patched up.

The most painful episodes occur when potholes are filled with water.  We tore a tyre or three in these things.

Taken on ‘Poltavka’. Texture from pareeerica.