Longeron! A lot of things from my childhood, good and hard, are associated with it!
It was raining all night. I got wet and did not have a good sleep. The dawn was grey and misty. But it is impossible to visit Odessa in summer come to Longeron where I had not been for 40 years and not to swim in the sea of childhood! Really impossible! To visit Rome and fail to see Pope, to visit Odessa and fail to swim? Nonsense!
However, after a cold puddle where I slept, the sea water did not seem very cold! And I warmed up when swimming.
Then, after walking through the city I went down to the port and managed to get a place in a little boat Orion, going to Kherson. Then, by train - to Simferopol, and after then - to the Crimean Nature Reserve.