Team MongoliA35

David Perigo
Of MongoliA35
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I love it when a plan comes together ......

Visit to high peak to buy an Austin A35 van. 

The weekend started with the theft of my wallet between Liverpool airport and the train station. I managed to get some emergency cash from my bank but this delayed me so that I couldn't buy the car on Saturday (I needed to go to another bank branch to get the money and I was too late). Not having too much cash, I was looking for a bed and breakfast. It turned out that the guy I was buying the car from was the caretaker for Whalley Hall, a "non denominational religious community"who do a mean line in B&B for 25 quid a night (and throw in a roast dinner in the evening). In any case I was served breakfast by Rev. David and spent Sunday discussing diverse topics with father Jamie.

Thanks to all at Whalley Hall for the support !!!!!!! 

 

David Perigo

While (Planning attempt on Africa next time round) I signed up for the Mongol .......

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Thomas Walloschek

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<h1>In 1957 in Baikonour, in the heart of the Kazak desert, the USSR readied the R7 launch vehicle for a historic flight. Atop the towering vehicle sat Sputnik 1. The events that followed ushered in a new era in world history, nothing would be quite the same ever again ......</h1><p align="center">&nbsp; <img height="187" src="images/gallery09/34161/400x400.jpeg" width="177" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img height="186" src="images/gallery09/34163/400x400.jpeg" width="242" /></p><h1>Meanwhile, on a factory production line in the Midlands, BMC were begining production of a new small and inexpensive saloon car destined to change the motoring habits of a nation and to herald in an era of motoring for the masses. The Austin A35 was aimed squarely at the post war nuclear family. <br /></h1><h1>&nbsp;</h1><h1>Examples of both remain in use to this day</h1><p align="center"><img height="204" src="images/gallery09/34159/400x400.jpeg" width="171" />&nbsp; <img height="203" src="images/gallery09/34119/400x400.jpeg" width="271" /></p><h1>&nbsp;</h1><h1>We are aiming to take our piece of space age technology (really it has been that long ;-)) To Mongolia and, with a bit of luck, to infinity and beyond (or at least back to where we started)</h1><p>&nbsp;</p>