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Wed 29 Jun 2016Day 18 Yekaterinburg to Perm (Russia) 420 Kms
Today, it rained again. Not all day, but the sky was overcast all day. There was no competition - we drove from Yekaterinburg to Perm using a northern route which is not the shortest but kept us on probably slightly quieter roads. There was actually 100km of divided highway leaving Yekaterinburg. The standard of the tar roads has improved slightly from yesterday. Maybe it will keep getting better as we move westward.
The Monument marking one of the points where Europe and Asia meet.
The thing that never ceases to amaze me is the people who turn out to watch and wave. They are everywhere
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there was an amendment which the organisers said was at the request of
a town, Chusovoy, to change the route to come through the town.
We were going to bypass it. The amended route took us to the
Chusovoy stadium, where there must have been thousands watching as we
drove very slowly around the running track and over a very high
podium.
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The crowd outside the hotel in Perm, to see the cars |
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Our not-quite-so-luxurious room in Perm
Tomorrow there arefour stages scheduled on the way to Kazan (where we have a rest day), and hopefully we have a new set of tyres waiting for us Coming up: A big day of rallying |
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Arriving
here at Perm was a similar reception.
We had planned to swap the rear tyres with the two spares to give us
the best rubber we have left for tomorrow stages to Kazan. 
