Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times - but in a dilapidated VDub... that's got to be plain daft... hasn't it?
I was in my prime, hungry to make a mark on the world, yet I was making ends meet by delivering egg and cress sandwiches on a bicycle with a bent axle to condescending office workers. Gainful employment in the ex-Soviet Union was a dream come true.
A chance job offer at a timber yard in Estonia gives Thom and his old pal Jo a taste for the unknown. So when Uncle Tony asks them to drive to Vladivostok for another job, they can't think of a good reason why not. The result is a classic caper across the former Soviet Union in Max, a rusty old VW camper. Knowing little of the language or the geography ahead, they embark on probably the longest commute ever, encountering corrupt officials, film star mechanics and over-friendly gangsters. Far off the tourist trail, they bear witness to the collapse of one nation and the birth of a new one during the free-for-all that was Russia in the nineties.
- ISBN13 9781849531566
- Publish Date 1 August 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Summersdale Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English