Ok, this is getting a little frustrating; it was announced earlier today that Russia has closed off it's natural gas pipeline to Eastern Europe because of a pricing dispute with Ukraine. Russia supplies one-quarter of Europe's natural gas, and about 80 percent of that is shipped through pipelines crossing Ukraine. As a result Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey all reported a halt in Russian gas shipments.
Let's hope this gets resolved quickly because the countries listed above are pretty much EXACTLY where Trevor and I are planning to travel. There's a Chinese proverb: "May you be cursed to live in interesting times." Truer words were never spoken.
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