Summer is about to end so do you know what I decided? I decided it was time to take a drive in the country! There is just so much waiting out there beyond the boundaries of the city. Day in and out, I keep seeing posts from my friends living in the city's outskirts, and it looks just so appealing!
The lifestyle of the people outside the city has always intrigued me. I always wondered how different, or at least, peaceful is the life beyond the concrete jungle. The initial plan was to stop by Kulinichi. A place my friend Katya spoke high and mightily of. But like all plans, it went a little differently.
About an hour outside the city and a quarter of an hour after detouring from Kulinichi, I was surrounded by incredible and vast lands of plantations. Everywhere my eyes went there was hay, sunflowers, and tomato fields. The day was clear and the air was so refreshing.
Most of the previous excursions into the countryside were always work or pass-by oriented. I never really got the chance to appreciate all the beautiful and sublime nature of the suburbs. Only this time my main focus was to enjoy everything around me. And man, did I enjoy it!
Every now and then I would come across fields with pretty much nothing to do with anything. Empty yet full. Beautiful plants and trees growing freely. As far as the eyes go, it is all green and green.
On the immediate opposite side, there would be a beautiful wheat field. Ripe and ready to harvest. Harvest. LOL. Reminded me of DeFi. But this was nothing short of serene. It was an incredible experience. Birds flying by. The wind blowing loud through the window. The grass dancing. Wow.
By now we were entering Saltov. Recently, there was a popular event somewhere near Saltov called the Agromol Fest. It did look nice but I missed it.
Right beside the Saltov sign was a tractor with watermelons sitting on a bed of dried hay. I immediately stopped the car and jumped out to get my hands on them. For one, I have never actually bought anything from the countryside. Secondly, these are probably the freshest melons I could get my hands on!
By nightfall, none of the locals would be selling anything so I didn't want to miss this golden opportunity. дядя Petya was the man behind this mission. He was incredibly welcome to my noisy group of friends and all the privacy intruding cameras.
Everything on display including the sweet melons, watermelons, tomatoes, and cucumbers were locally grown and raised by Petya himself. He told me his field wasn't too far from here for him to come down and set up a shop but too far for anyone to ever drive by.
I was not holding much cash so I asked him to grab me a sweet but small watermelon that I could take home. He showed me the watermelons and picked out a nice-looking round watermelon. The trick to finding a sweet one, according to Petya, is to go for round watermelons, with a little bit of browning on the underside.
Look at that beauty! And the watermelon. Like I said I wasn't holding much cash so this was the biggest I could afford. Petya wasn't too big on card terminals and so on. Who would've guessed, right?
The melons were going for 10UAH per kilo. Insanely cheap compared to the 22UAH per kilo in the city supermarkets. Cut out the logistics, middle-man, trade licenses, and so on, and voila! You've got one helluva cheap watermelon. Not to mention the incredible countryside experience!
Look at that! дядя Petya really hooked me up! Juicy, delicious, sweet watermelon! He really knows to pick out a good one.
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