After a more than adequate breakfast in our Simferopol hotel Olga & I decided to take our trip along the coast from Yalta and travel west. The Sun was strong and the sky was blue so off we went, straight into a traffic jam!

The Crimea is very popular during the summer months with both Russians and Ukrainians and Yalta is the most popular destination of all, so we joined the line and edged our way out of Simferopol. We had not travelled very far when we spotted a grand, but abandoned house and…