WE FINALLY FOOKING MADE IT!!!!!!

Thats right after 47 grueling days, 14 countries, 9010 miles, 13 police stops, 5 police fines (one of which was negotiated down from $150 to a biro, which wasnt even new) 2 crashes, aprox 12 broken parts of our car (only one being life threatening), 5 bouts of the big D each and countless hangovers the mighty cunning linguists stormed in to Ulaanbaatar on the  afternoon of the 2nd of september!!!!!

Along with the mini, panda and subaru muz and ciaran have made it all the way form London to the capital of Mongolia. To all of those who said we wouldn't make it we laugh at you, HAHAHAHA!!!!!

Muz and Ciaran have had such a good time over the last six weeks and will deffinatly be doing something similar to this in the future. If any one feels they would like to do the mongol rally then you should certainly go for it as we had such a good time. Even if u have no mechanical knowledge like us it will be all good, well only if u do it in a Fiat Punto called Penelope.

The last blog i left was in Averheer if thats how its meant to be spelt. The 3 other cars in the 'crisis' convoy where being bodged in a mechanics so they could make it to UB, over 400kms away. We intended the trip to take a day and be in Ub on the 1st as we thought it was all tarmac. We found out that infact it was tarmac for 250kms approx and then the standard mongolian dirt track for 60kms then 60kms of brand spanking new tarmac. Therefore we thought it would take 2 days. So after the first lot of tarmac we camped up for...[Read More]