Almaty, Kazakhstan

Finally phone coverage.Made it thru' Tajik+kirgyz.Now heading to Almaty with no exhaust! It's loud as hell.Hope to make repairs there.

Navoiy, Uzbekistan

after a night of wheeling and dealing,fuel & dollars have exchanged hands. Now in convoy from Bukhara to Samarqand with the guys and dolls

Vienna, Austria

why does my head hurt so much...oh ya...crazy party last night in a castle!

London Baby!

Well, just to let everyone know that we have the first few 100 miles under our belt and have arrived in London from Newcastle in one piece. Tomorrow is the official start down in Goodwood racing circuit. We can't wait for it now. Nearly there after all the hard work of organising it comes the hard work of trying to get to Mongolia! Wish us luck. Signing out for now, Mark and Jerry 

Quick Thanks

Just a quick word to say "thank you" to some of our major sponsors: K Lydiatt and Co., Kitchen Excel, Castrol oil, BP, and the Numast Union.

All your donations are greatly appreciated and will go along way to improving the lives of the children of the CYPPD foundation and helping the extraordinary efforts of the RNLI around our coastline.

This is us signing off from Newcastle as we make our way down to London this evening and the begining of our epic journey.

Our sick baby!

Well in short she sprung a leak. As we ran from the shopping centre trying to avoide the down pour of rain we noticed a rainbow shine on the pools of water around the car and laughed as we thought it was coming from the wreck that was parcked next to us. Later that night when we went out to the car we noticed a stream of rainbow colured water running down the driveway. Bugger! It was our poor little baby. After a quick inspection we saw it was the sump and it had a whole in the top of it but we had to meet a reporter from the newspaper in the other side of town along with the crew from Sunderland RNLI for a photo shoot. Do we risk it? "She'll be right mate" so off we went hoping we didn't destroy our baby, stopping along the way to check the oil level. We made it there and back and patched it up with some liquid metal later that night.

Yesterday was then spent trying to source a new sump, oil and sealant. Everything seems to take 2 - 3 days to deliver in this country but after a long day ringing breakers yards, dealers, local garages, ebay, gumtree and friends we managed to source them last night and now our baby is getting mended this morning and all going well will be back to full heath by lunch time. At least the sump corroded away to nothing and went now and not in the middle of tim-buck-two. Panic stations over and we are back on track for the rally on Saturday.