Posted Sunday, July 13th 2008 at 10:28 by We just drove into Asia! The Azerbaijani embassy in Istanbul was an empty building which showed no signs of recent use so we are driving on to Ankora, where hopefully we will find internet and upload photos of Bertha's service.
We just drove into Asia!
Date | Message | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 weeks 6 days ago | It's over! Arrived at Gatwick airport. It's good to be home! | |
| 7 weeks 2 days ago | we're on the trans siberian! 2 days and the scenery has not ceased to be absolutely breathtaking: lake baikal, endless forests and rolling hills. Meeting new people all the time on board, learnt a new card game yesterday. Finally feels like it's over - we're coming home! :) :( | |
| 7 weeks 4 days ago | Wheee! Bought train tickets yesterday to Moscow before getting Russian visas, which we begged and cajoled to get 30 minutes after the embassy closed (we had to go back to the trainline to get more pieces of paper with stamps on). Got the visas this morning and said goodbye to the charity people - who have in the last two days befriended us, helped us, and been constantly cheerful and enthusiastic. Thank you CDPF and the Mongolia Rally organisers and volunteers and everyone who helped or donated! We are sad it's over :( Moscow in four days, then we will fly home. See you in Blighty soon! - FFP | |
| 7 weeks 4 days ago | UB nightlife report: if you thought the 'hello, boys' advert was distracting, here they have tvs in the street so big they light up the whole street - I thought lightning was going off! We're heading to the same club as last night, Strings, as the house band is very good. The normal way to travel here is to just flag down regular cars and pay them to take you. Our driver for the night pulled over at speed and promptly crashed his car before asking us if we wanted to get in it and pay him to drive us. We did anyway, everyone makes mistakes from time to time, right? (written last night. We lived!) | |
| 8 weeks 5 hours ago | We made it! 4 team members, 16 limbs, 1 car, 5 wheels, all intact! Just been served cheeseburger and fries by the charity people, who clearly know what people want on finishing the rally! | |
| 8 weeks 2 days ago | Got lost, almost ran out of diesel, but we've finally made it to Mörön! Hopefully Ulaanbataar soon, but things might happen again.. | |
| 8 weeks 2 days ago | 1100 BST, 13th Aug: 'The only appropriate recommendation should be that snatch towing should not be carried out at all.' - Four-by-four driving, Tom Sheppard. We didn't know the Mongolian for 'for the love of God, NO!', and, well, it worked. But please, dear readers, do NOT try this at home! Note for future: river crossings 50cm deep good, 60cm of boggy mud bad. | |
| 8 weeks 2 days ago | 0300 BST, 13th Aug: Oh, there the lake is. We found it! | |
| 8 weeks 5 days ago | camped here thinking we were in sight of lake hyargas. We're not. Not using gps to navigate, so only you can laugh at how wrong we are (don't tell us!). still heading east so no worries - the lake is 60km wide so we can't possibly miss it, right? Right? | |
| 8 weeks 5 days ago | 1320 BST, 12th Aug. Have left road to avoid huge marsh, following the pointing finger of a one-eyed, one-armed Mongolian. He seemed trustworthy. |
