I heard if you swallow the shower water in the rural parts of Russia and beyond,it could be fatal,due to the spores in the shower head,or the dirty water,you get an infection on the lungs.
and if you eat the cucumbers in Germany you’ll die 
common remedies out here are for bad guts - 100+grams of vodka and a good measure of salt & for a cold/flu 100+ grams of vodka with a big helping of pepper.
I saw Lady Lucinda F16 in Turkmen a couple years ago, all registered up on local plates
colin.f.whitetrans:
euromat:
i was chatting to a patrick white driver (i think the only one) recenty at asten truckstop, a scotsman by the name of alan who now lives in romania, was chatting about going across rus kz etc, does this ring any bells? also i believe alan bremner lives close by to me nowadays (if its the same one who used to do middle east work) a friend of mine is friends with him and his brother was running a tipper locallyI bet there isnt many countries alan bremner has not been to in a truck. The likes of him and m&c jamie could hold an audience all night with their experiences and i for one would be glad to here the tales they have to tell over and over again as much as anyone.
Reg colin
Dam rite, that would be a good night, i`d have a front row seat.
Richardjw1:
common remedies out here are for bad guts - 100+grams of vodka and a good measure of salt & for a cold/flu 100+ grams of vodka with a big helping of pepper.
PMSL 
Backtracking a bit, I clearly remember about 10 years ago there was a story reported in the press over here that a roadside food vendor in some town (can’t remember which but it was based around an aerospace factory) in the Urals had been jailed for bumping people off who the police were sure had ended up as ‘kebap’ 
I cannot find anything on t’internet now though
Come on, legionairs from the shower or eating meat that is human! …what do you guys know?
2 storys i have been told before,
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I believe the kebaab story is related to a dish called shashlik (sp?) and was alledgedly sometimes made from human flesh!! …great drivers story!! 
If you want more details then PM Harry Monk, he has done quite abit of Russia and destinatins East and im sure it was he who first posted the Shashlik story.
jj72:
Richardjw1:
common remedies out here are for bad guts - 100+grams of vodka and a good measure of salt & for a cold/flu 100+ grams of vodka with a big helping of pepper.PMSL
Would you take the chance and buy a kebab from this vendor below■■? Richard does sto grams not cure everything out that way
That would be 3 star at least Colin.
It looks like there was at least one shashlik stall at it 
I know legionella can come from air conditioning and especially dehumidifiers. But look here.
Legionella pneumophila exists widely in nature and is found in bodies of water like ponds and lakes, and also in the soil. The disease is spread by people inhaling a contaminated aerosol of fine water droplets,
colin.f.whitetrans:
jj72:
Richardjw1:
common remedies out here are for bad guts - 100+grams of vodka and a good measure of salt & for a cold/flu 100+ grams of vodka with a big helping of pepper.PMSL
Would you take the chance and buy a kebab from this vendor below■■? Richard does sto grams not cure everything out that way
Um, no 
I think i would stick with a bottle of warm coca cola and all the turkish biscuits he had
All said & done I have had more bad guts from “reasonable” hotel catering than I ever have from chaikanas and some roadside cafes which are next to a stream, flies blowing around and an outside shyter based on a hole in the ground.
There was one of them russian programs on the other day harping on about healthy life-style, they started on about beer and how bad it was…real scare stuff, then they moved on to vodka and all its hygenic virtues .
Mind you there’s a lot of the home-made stuff around in reused bottles and foil caps…on the first mouthful you can normally tell if its a bad bottle…then you get other instances and some quality vodka and sit all night drinking at a birthday or wedding do and wake up the next day like it was nothing.
colin.f.whitetrans:
Richard does sto grams not cure everything out that way
another one is vodka with aspirin dissolved in it to bring down temperature
dont you just wish digi cameras were common back in the day? plenty more pics would have been around…
brenics77:
dont you just wish digi cameras were common back in the day? plenty more pics would have been around…
I dont know about digi camers but like i have said i wish i had took much more photos
Heres another budding gordon ramsey in russia between moscow and samara
Hi komatsu450 -the lad you met was pete blundell aka fester,he came from Edolls International to drive for peter.The crash in question was a load of mcewans export bound for the camp in Tengiz.Im sure there were 4 of them running together,one been eddie edwards but the others escape my memory.The wagon in question was a pimped out 113 which prior to pete having it was driven by one eric pattie aka the grim reaper - the only damage incurred was a smashed pigs ear (deflector).He told me a great story of an old ambulance which was on route to an emergency saw the bounty scattered out of his tilt pulled up and loaded themselves to the gunnels with booze then roaring off into the sunset!!!
VABIS66:
Hi komatsu450 -the lad you met was pete blundell aka fester,he came from Edolls International to drive for peter.The crash in question was a load of mcewans export bound for the camp in Tengiz.Im sure there were 4 of them running together,one been eddie edwards but the others escape my memory.The wagon in question was a pimped out 113 which prior to pete having it was driven by one eric pattie aka the grim reaper - the only damage incurred was a smashed pigs ear (deflector).He told me a great story of an old ambulance which was on route to an emergency saw the bounty scattered out of his tilt pulled up and loaded themselves to the gunnels with booze then roaring off into the sunset!!!
Hi Vabis66 great bloke peter and was very intresting to talk to i got some pics of the scania but he asked me not to put any on the net
Eddie was with the blokes when the beer went over (or whatever happened to it,Eddie probably drunk most of it )
If I recal correctly Eric had a 143 with a huge bull bar on it. He picked up N600 from Baku when I was flown home, presume he kept it.
john.d.m:
Eddie was with the blokes when the beer went over (or whatever happened to it,Eddie probably drunk most of it
If I recal correctly Eric had a 143 with a huge bull bar on it. He picked up N600 from Baku when I was flown home, presume he kept it.
hi john i,ve been speaking to peter tonight and told about the site i have got pictures of the red scania and hopefully he will let me put them on i was telling him about the differant ones on here and he was saying about when a few got made to park up by the police i think it was on Jan the 7th because it was christmas day out there
come on guys! every time i click on this thread i need to see the next number! i.e. plenty pics stories etc. Cheers