Goodbye Vladivostok

We had one final day in Vladivostok before flying North to Magadan to rendezvous with our bikes.  It was a last chance to capture some images of this once closed port city.  The weather was humid and fog filled the city, as usual, so I decided to shoot people rather than scenery:

Sailors down near the Naval port:

A couple in the central square:

Visiting US and Japanese sailors got into a bidding war for this old Russian Naval uniform.

And down by the Submarine war memorial, another typical local couple.

My final act in Vladivostok – I popped into a badge shop I had found late last week.  Lucy, the badgemaker there had whipped for me a new supply of Sibirsky Extreme badges … and had put together for me an all new badge … the Road of Bones badge – for people who have ridden, cycled or driven between Yakutsk and Magadan.

That was enough for Vladivostok.  We had been there a long time … and we had seen a lot.  But we were long overdue to move on.

Next stop – Magadan.

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