Well on the way back from the Internet and Business Conference in Moscow we had a close call. There’s no lights on the main roads heading back to Ivanovo and Anna gets blinded very easily by the oncoming traffic - resulting in her unnervingly squinting her eyes and swaying on the road trying to keep in a straight line.

Of course it doesn’t help that other drivers in Russia never seem to dip their lights for oncoming traffic but Anna is still rather a new driver.

Anyway - at one point during the journey we had a particularly large Russia truck come towards us with his lights blazing, one sway from Anna and SMACK - it took out mirror out.

Yep, I can hear what you’re thinking, that truck did come quite close to do that. He carried on blowing his air-horn for a while as he went past us but it’s fair to say we came off worse.

Anna and I have decided we’ll try and drive more during the daytime (!) but we’re looking at other ideas too. Dad suggested squinting one eye, much like we were trained to do in the CCF with flares and night-ops. Mum suggests night driving glasses? Anyone else got any inspired ideas?