After a night camping outside bamburg we are on route to prague. (Nuremberg, Germany)

We are in the capital of Kazkhstan. It took us quite a few days to get here from Kostanay as the Shogun had to be fixed up and we got lost a lot.

On route to Astana the Hilux snapped a leaf spring so had to fix it in Astana. This gave the rest of us a day to take in the pretty terrible sights of Astana. Our goal was to walk to the tower that is all the Kazak money. On route we managed to go on some rusty pedalos, go on a horse ride round a fountain and visit a mini Kazkhstan thing that was extremelly odd. After 6 hours of walking we finally made it to the tower, it was faily impressive. We got in a lift and went to the top, where in typical Kazak style there was plenty of odd things to be seen.

We'r now heading south to lake Balqash, then onto the Russian border.

To everyones relief we made it out of Ukraine alive, it truelly has a lot of work to do if it hopes to hold the Euros in 2012. Although the Ukraine wasn't great, for the rest of my life i will remember and incedent with ducks in a shopping mall in Kiev, i'll explain that when i get home.

The Russian border took about 3 nd half hours, lots of queing and border guards taking the piss a bit. At one point I had to fill out a form about the car, the fella handed me a form in cyrillic. He watched me stare blankly at it for 10 mins, clearly not knowing what I was meant to write, then came over and spoke perfect English and told me what to write, he was just trying to wind me up.  read more »

So we have made it Kiev, thus far the Ukraine has been pretty hard work. Our border crossing was fairly easy, took two hours to get through. Almost got into a bit of trouble after the border guard asked me to drive up to customs, i didnt see it and drove straight through at 40. Luckily no one seemed to notice so a quitly reversed back 50 m to where i was meant to be.  read more »

Currently in Vienna en route to Bratislava.

We'll do a proper update tomorrow from budapest...