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Kyla & Family🌍Driving Around The World
Everything is better with friends 🥰 On one of Everything is better with friends 🥰 On one of our last nights in Romania, we met a lovely group of friends from Moldova. We spent a great evening eating and chatting with them (and hiding from the rain!). A few days later, we met up again for dinner in Chisinau. For us, the people make the place, and Moldova will always hold a special place in our hearts because of these wonderful people! 2,3,4,5: Chisinau, including @coffee.capsula owned by our friend Tony. 6,7: The monasteries at Old Orhei. 8: Getting water from the well 9,10: Castel Mimi, apparently this is the only castle in Moldova, and the first fine dining restaurant. Dinner was delicious! (It’s also a winery!) 11,12: Asconi winery, where we had the most delicious perogies for lunch! 13-18: Milesti Mici. This winery has 200km of underground tunnels, 55km of which are wine cellars! We took a golf cart tour through the tunnels and it was such a fun experience! 19: Our Moldova sticker…the first sticker on row #3!! #whereistheworld #moldova #moldovatravel
This is Pridnestrovie, more commonly known as Tran This is Pridnestrovie, more commonly known as Transnistria. A breakaway state with strong ties to Russia, internationally recognized as part of Moldova. 🛂 We had to cross a border and buy a local vignette + insurance (€5). The border guard was SO friendly & had a long conversation with Randy, sending us away with bike rally stickers. They can’t stamp our passports, so we were given a white piece of paper, printed & official, that they said not to lose because we’d need to show it upon exiting. 👮‍♂️ There was a police checkpoint at the main roundabout between Bender & Tiraspol, and we were pulled over to check our documents every single time! Our Moldovan friends were surprised we were never asked for a bribe. 💰 We exchanged Euros for local Prodnestrovien rubles, and made sure to convert them back (to Moldovan Lei) before leaving because they’re worthless everywhere else. We even found a few coins on the ground for our currency collection, and spent a silly amount of money on a ‘collectible’ set of the plastic coins that aren’t really in use anymore, but how could we resist! 🗽We marvelled at the sheer number of statues & monuments. I think there was always at least one in view everywhere we went! This, plus the classic communist architecture, made it feel very Soviet (what I perceive as Soviet having never experienced it myself) 🥟 We had some delicious pastries wandering the streets, and an excellent dinner at ‘Back in the USSR’ (yes, that’s the name of the restaurant!). 🚙 We found a small guesthouse that offers camping in Tiraspol. It was very basic, but felt better than wild camping. Have you visited any breakaway states? What was your experience? #whereistheworld #defenderadventure #roadtripeurope #overlandfamily #transnistria #familytravelers #offthebeatentrack #theroadtrip #theroadlesstraveled #theroadlesstravelled #europeoverland #europetravels
A few favourites from Romania… Wild camps, salt A few favourites from Romania… Wild camps, salt mines, bears, mountains, painted monasteries & pretty, colourful towns. What more could a person want? #whereistheworld #romania #roadtripping #europeroadtrip
The pic you take OF your family… And then the p The pic you take OF your family… And then the pic you take WITH your family 😂 Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there behind the lens!! 💐 #whereistheworld #familytravelers #momswhotravel
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whereistheworld

🇨🇦🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Driving around the world
🚙 Gimli our self-built #defender110
🌍90 Countries, 85 with kids, 45 with Gimli 🚙
📍🚙 in 🇲🇩

Kyla & Family🌍Driving Around The World
Everything is better with friends 🥰 On one of Everything is better with friends 🥰 On one of our last nights in Romania, we met a lovely group of friends from Moldova. We spent a great evening eating and chatting with them (and hiding from the rain!). A few days later, we met up again for dinner in Chisinau. For us, the people make the place, and Moldova will always hold a special place in our hearts because of these wonderful people! 2,3,4,5: Chisinau, including @coffee.capsula owned by our friend Tony. 6,7: The monasteries at Old Orhei. 8: Getting water from the well 9,10: Castel Mimi, apparently this is the only castle in Moldova, and the first fine dining restaurant. Dinner was delicious! (It’s also a winery!) 11,12: Asconi winery, where we had the most delicious perogies for lunch! 13-18: Milesti Mici. This winery has 200km of underground tunnels, 55km of which are wine cellars! We took a golf cart tour through the tunnels and it was such a fun experience! 19: Our Moldova sticker…the first sticker on row #3!! #whereistheworld #moldova #moldovatravel
This is Pridnestrovie, more commonly known as Tran This is Pridnestrovie, more commonly known as Transnistria. A breakaway state with strong ties to Russia, internationally recognized as part of Moldova. 🛂 We had to cross a border and buy a local vignette + insurance (€5). The border guard was SO friendly & had a long conversation with Randy, sending us away with bike rally stickers. They can’t stamp our passports, so we were given a white piece of paper, printed & official, that they said not to lose because we’d need to show it upon exiting. 👮‍♂️ There was a police checkpoint at the main roundabout between Bender & Tiraspol, and we were pulled over to check our documents every single time! Our Moldovan friends were surprised we were never asked for a bribe. 💰 We exchanged Euros for local Prodnestrovien rubles, and made sure to convert them back (to Moldovan Lei) before leaving because they’re worthless everywhere else. We even found a few coins on the ground for our currency collection, and spent a silly amount of money on a ‘collectible’ set of the plastic coins that aren’t really in use anymore, but how could we resist! 🗽We marvelled at the sheer number of statues & monuments. I think there was always at least one in view everywhere we went! This, plus the classic communist architecture, made it feel very Soviet (what I perceive as Soviet having never experienced it myself) 🥟 We had some delicious pastries wandering the streets, and an excellent dinner at ‘Back in the USSR’ (yes, that’s the name of the restaurant!). 🚙 We found a small guesthouse that offers camping in Tiraspol. It was very basic, but felt better than wild camping. Have you visited any breakaway states? What was your experience? #whereistheworld #defenderadventure #roadtripeurope #overlandfamily #transnistria #familytravelers #offthebeatentrack #theroadtrip #theroadlesstraveled #theroadlesstravelled #europeoverland #europetravels
A few favourites from Romania… Wild camps, salt A few favourites from Romania… Wild camps, salt mines, bears, mountains, painted monasteries & pretty, colourful towns. What more could a person want? #whereistheworld #romania #roadtripping #europeroadtrip
The pic you take OF your family… And then the p The pic you take OF your family… And then the pic you take WITH your family 😂 Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there behind the lens!! 💐 #whereistheworld #familytravelers #momswhotravel
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