Lada O’ Melons
Originally uploaded by gaikokujinkyofusho.
That is a Lada (Russian car) full of melons. In developing countries I am constantly amused by how people push the limits of vehicular carrying capacity be it a car with brush (for making brooms) piled 3 times as high as the car is high, to a trunk full of peppers to a… backseat piled to the ceiling with water melons. The lada seems to me to be the Russian equivalent of Germany’s VW Bug, breaks easily, fixed easily, deathtrap; but I have never seen people stuff a VW Bug like I regularly see people stuff ladas. A photo like this can be had near just about any CIS bazaar, unfortunately this was a camera phone photo so it is of less-than-stellar quality. Also, note, I am sure I am within a few hundred meters of the right place but I am not positive, I didn’t have the GPS function turned on in my phone when I took this photo so I used www.geoimgr.com/ to place the image about right. I know it is near the freedom square in Tbilisi though.
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