Where are we?

	Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia at 00:21 on Team Swifty said We made it!! 7000 miles and here we are at the capital! Roads great toward UB.. accept when we got v close, turnt to tracks! Hmm! Hotel and shower!!

	Arvaikheer - Mongolia at 10:43 on Team Swifty said Maria is back at her best! Running 100 octane fuel in Mongolia! Who wuda thought! Guna try for UB tonight! Will be a long long drive! Shower needed!!

	Bayankhongor - Mongolia at 03:46 on Team Swifty said Maria lives!! On the road again! UB here we come! x

	Bayankhongor - Mongolia at 02:06 on Team Swifty said What a coupla days! Maria has hit rock bottom, had to camp up in desert alone lastnight as she started coughing and backfiring, tried to limp to town today but died half way, got towed to town by local and are awaiting a mechanic for a verdict, so close to finish! roumored tarmac after town..@

	Altay - Mongolia at 18:12 on Team Swifty said just rolled ourselves into town! picked up a new convoy of two teams! "small lads" bought another Micra but behind now, cooking up a late night feast in a field! Yum! Experienced local food lastnight, v tasty and no after-affects! Oh and yet another flat on these impecible roads ;-)

	Khovd - Mongolia at 03:18 on Team Swifty said Just made it to the town! Mongolia has punished our convoy, had a few incidents involving just about every part of the car! but Maria is still powering on! "Two small lads" have worrying problem with clutch.. Signal hard to come by now! Shal update again at next town, p.s. all well and healthy!

	Olgy - Mongolia at 03:27 on Team Swifty said Went up a huge mountain this morning, car struggled alot. Tom had to get out and walk it! Met loads of locals and now on a fantastic 20km stretch of tarmac! @

	Tsagaannuur - Mongolia at 14:48 on Team Swifty said We have reached Mongolia!! Already invited in by friendly locals, and shown the right track to take! they had a 2007 rally car which was rather cool! Met up with team "two small guys one small car!" Guna convoy with them from now on! V cold at night! 9 degrees! Missing kazakh desert heat now!@

	at 12:13 on Team Swifty said Hoorar! Got Maria's exhaust fixed up by an expert mechanic! 3hrs labour for £20! Camping 200 miles south of Barnaul, next stop Mongolia! Bring it on!

	Rubtsovsk - Russia at 15:20 on Team Swifty said Got caught speeding by kazakh copper! 93Kmh in a random 50! Got off free as we are English! Whey! We all had a laugh and they sent us on our way, Then got pulled another 5 times by angry coppers for no reason! Eventually made it into Russia! Exhaust repair needed badly, sounds like a monster!@

	Astana - Kazakhstan at 11:26 on Team Swifty said Just leaving astana now. Had a terrible day yesterday. We were heading towards astana, but in fact we took a 260 mile wrong turn, which led to 8 hours lost! We took off twice on terrible roads and destroyed our exhaust. We were crawling to astana when we met a local kazak family who took us in for the night and drank beer with us! They cooked us egg's this morning and drove us around astana to get supplies, truely a fantastic family! X x x @

	Kostanay - Kazakhstan at 13:32 on Team Swifty said Fantastic roads today! Kazakh has rather impressed us! Lots of friendly locals! Had to part with the chaps as guna bomb it to Astana tmoro 4 a hotel.

	Aktobe - Kazakhstan at 14:01 on Team Swifty said Camping 4 night, good & appauling roads past 2 days! Pot holes are craters! But doing good! Looking 4ward to tinned curry and beer! Still with chaps

	Atyrau - Kazakhstan at 13:49 on Team Swifty said Passed through Kazakh boarder 3am local, Within 10 secs got pulled by bent copper! Got away eventually for a luxury 1 hr sleep in the car! kazakh "Σ A¡£$øM¡ @Çè¥ΛΔΣ¡¡Qùòè A0@@ ΔòΔèøè0øøø@$a@è¡B Δ¿ ΣØ¿¤ΣΣ@èB£òΣø@¡£H,èù@AtÇ@aèò¤¥@ø_è L¿c¿vÑ;CVx=QT<üYΘQJ@AS¤*3&@£Θa1ZpΨB£@Σ"ò¡(ΠJUyAÇ->gd off 2 bed

	Astrakhan - Russia at 18:08 on Team Swifty said Long day of driving Russia! Met bent copper, had to sing and dance for our freedom, met Borris who gave directions to bank! Had 1st flat tyre due to weight and bald tread, oh dear!50p a litre though,get in!x

	Luhansk - Ukraine at 19:18 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY are close to luhansk. Started pitching tent with other teams and found needles all over field, drove 20 miles west looking for a new field and found a local random man in his pants, who invited the convoy to stop in his house for $10 each! Seems nice but very very random and weird!

	Kiev - Ukraine at 16:34 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY have been at kiev this afternoon. Had a run in with the locals on the way here with an argument over fuel. They wanted $150 for half a tank! Was resolved with sweet talking the lady and cig's! Roads have been terrible but just went out for a good meal! X

	Lviv - Ukraine at 17:11 on Team Swifty said think we are here now, just looking for a remote spot to stop for the eve to get ready for drive to kiev. Suprised at how nice parts of Ukraine is, and how quick the border crossing was! X@

	Budapest - Hungary at 11:55 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY arrived in Budapest. Convoyed in with Chap's To Mongolia. Now getting ready for the last night of europe before Ukraine! X

	Vienna - Austria at 21:11 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY have been in vienna most of the day. Nearly crashed into police car and had an amazing time meeting locals, onwards to budapest! X

	Linz - Austria at 16:43 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY are nearly in Austria, just east of Linz at Passau. Gave directions to team on hard shoulder.Lots of angry germans, Vienna tomorrow! X

	Frankfurt - Germany at 07:35 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY are now driving past frankfurt! A few gear box issues and an over heating cd player!Shocked at how rude the germans are. X

	Nurburgring - Germany at 22:20 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY are now at Aachen in germany. We got lost trying to find the hotel and ended up in the netherlands.Found german woman who was helpful! X @

	London - United Kingdom at 16:13 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY at the tunnel now, car is going good, and have met many random people. I cant wait to see what the french make of us!

	London - United Kingdom at 14:00 on Team Swifty said TEAM SWIFTY are very lost in london, met up with Team Rascal and working out our way to the m20!

	BLOG UPDATE: Team Swifty   (20:27 )
	Hello There!We are up and running and ready to go. Check out our offical Website for further information about us, the car and our route!!... www.team-swifty.com Cheers,Tom ... Read more ...