Mongolia
So we have finally made it to the capital of Mongolia. Who would have thought it! Sadly Molly our trusted 2CV only just made it across the border into Mongolia and was finally unrepairable. The gearbox went and the only gear we...
Read Moreby Justin | Sep 1, 2005 | Mongol Rally, travel | 0 |
So we have finally made it to the capital of Mongolia. Who would have thought it! Sadly Molly our trusted 2CV only just made it across the border into Mongolia and was finally unrepairable. The gearbox went and the only gear we...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 21, 2005 | Mongol Rally | 2 |
Just outside Almaty poor old Molly is in need of major surgery once again! We have found a master mechanic and now we are waiting for Monday morning when we hope he can start work on the chassis. It has been quite an eventful...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 17, 2005 | Mongol Rally | 1 |
I was going to open this page with the words of a well known late 19th Century poet where he reveled in the glory of Samarkand. I could also delight in Alexander the Great’s first impressions of a city that was even more...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 16, 2005 | Mongol Rally, travel | 1 |
What a pleasant change the Uzbek border made! Just three stops at the border and only 2 pieces of paperwork as opposed to the 14 offices and god knows how much paperwork getting into Turkmenistan. I was shortly off worrying...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 15, 2005 | Mongol Rally, travel | 1 |
So it is now 8pm here. Still no sign of Stephen… I can only assume he is still stuck in Turkmenistan. Am currently trying to reach the British Embassy in Ashgabat which is difficult as it takes an hour to get an outside...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 12, 2005 | Mongol Rally, travel | 0 |
After an 18-hour long ferry journey across the Caspian Sea we made it to Turkmenistan. Land of police checkpoints, lovely people and pothole hell! 7 flat tyres we had on our trip across the country. The first 4 within the first...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 12, 2005 | Mongol Rally, travel | 0 |
I arrived at this border and sat in a queue for a good 2 hours before they started to process me. It all looked like it was going swimmingly and then suddenly I was in an office being told that it was going to take 2 days to get...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 10, 2005 | Mongol Rally | 0 |
Well I made it here. Been one hell of an eventful journey. Numerous breakdowns and now I am about to leave to drive to Azerbaijan. Will do a longer update...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 9, 2005 | Mongol Rally, travel | 2 |
Henry left me in Istanbul, much to my disappointment as from then on I started getting lost! However after a minor breakdown with the handbreak jamming in Istanbul and having to be pushed up a motorway sliproad with the...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 8, 2005 | Mongol Rally | 0 |
It’s a sad day today for me really as my brother who has been quıte brilliant as a co-drıver and moral support flies back from İstanbul tomorrow and I drive on alone to Baku. We had a good night last night and I took great...
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 7, 2005 | Mongol Rally | 0 |
So we finally made it. Been a fun journey from Budapest. We got down to the Serbian border in good time. We then spent about 3 hours getting out of Hungary into Serbia where they tried to charge us 110 euros to cross the border....
Read Moreby Justin | Aug 4, 2005 | Mongol Rally | 1 |
So finally we are safely ensconced in the warm cocoon of an Ibis Hotel near the airport in Budapest. Having spent two nights in the car I think Henry’s patience almost ran out. As soon as he heard the word hotel I...
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