, Altai Mountains
Car dead, sad day. 20 hour bus ride to sort. Sad sad day. 63 stone, with too much equipment took its toll. Engine still superb though!!
, Altai Mountains
Car dead, sad day. 20 hour bus ride to sort. Sad sad day. 63 stone, with too much equipment took its toll. Engine still superb though!!
Barnaul, Russia
headed for Mongolia tomorrow, hoping all car problems are over now!!!
Almaty, Kazakhstan
in Almaty sampling local beers and food, car is sick but I hope major surgery tomorrow goes well.
Atyrau, Kazakhstan
The point where Europe becomes Asia!!!!
Volgograd, Russia
first boarder bribe completed today. :-)
Mariupol', Ukraine
anyone else doing the southern Russian boarder tomorrow?
Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
got to the beach for sunrise, couple of hours kip in tents on the black sea.
Kyiv city, Ukraine
Made it!!!!
Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
Thanks for a fantastic party. Hitting the road and driving straight through to Chernobyl. Big drive but.....
Pilsen, Czech Republic
Managed to out run the rain, Going to chill now. Happy days!! :-)
It is my precise and perfect planning that allows me to be this spontaneous!
Simple....
<div style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="6"><strong>The Herons Go To Mongolia </strong></font></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Just to give you a brief summary of what we are doing without boring you with too many details.</font></div> <p style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Myself (Andy), Pete and Dave three dyslexic front row Prop`s playing for Wanstead will be driving to Mongolia. The relevance of this is that currently, we come in at a collective 63 Stone (of pure muscle!!!!).</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We will be doing the entire 11,367 miles in a stunning 9 year old Vauxhall Agila (Now Called Christina) Club with a massive 1199cc engine.</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">On 14th July 2012 we will be leaving from The Goodwood `Festival of Slow` and heading to the Europen Launch in Prague on the 16th July 2012. From there it is to mongolia, Via</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Czech Rep, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Russia (again), and Mongolia.</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">In an attempt to take this journey past just being a drinking experience full of debauchery, sleaze and excess we are attempting to raise as much money for charity as possible and experience different cultures (or different beers!)</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We have targeted to raise £1 for every mile. However never missing a challenge the most money ever raised by one team is £56,000... so dont be shy!!!</font></p> <span style="line-height: 115%"><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%"><font color="#0000ff">So once we have actually sorted out the charity`s we are supporting (group in-fighting) please don’t be supprised if we ask you for money, in return if I ever figure out how to properly use computers I will send out the link to a web page where you can follow our progress via trackers on this trip.</font></span></div></span>