Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
both got to ub by very crowed minibus and paul hitching with team ulaanba-tour. Thanks chaps! Emma will be back on saturday and paul's train to moscow is next tuesday.
Khovd, Mongolia
rally is over for our suzuki after we hit a rock and tore a hole in the engine 60km out of khovd. But we shall continue to UB without her!
Bayan Olgii, Mongolia
finally in after a 2 day wait at the border. Have broken a spring into 3 parts (nothing to do with paul's driving) but with local help have new ones waiting at the next town and have borrowed a slightly less broken one till then.
Farab, Turkmenistan
epic night in ashgabat the las vegas of asia now stuck at uzbec boader in no mans land for next 4days, time to learn russian! Paul.
Babol, Iran
slept, ate and drank for free at a shisha bar last night. Iranian people are amazingly friendly, including the police! Best country yet by far!
Maku, Iran
just got out of the turkey-iran border crossing after three and a half very long hours. Hopefully the rest of the country will be nicer!
Istanbul, Turkey
chilling with a pint in istanbul, watching the tri nations rugby.
Arad, Romania
just passing into romania. Border guards very relaxed with about 8 or so rally cars and ambulance passing through!
Pilsen, Czech Republic
arrived here a day early, so day off tomorrow!
, Belgium
our car seems to have healed its squeak and warning light is now off! 138 km to brussels.
Paul Clayton
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Hello! I'm a law student, currently studying down in Oxford, in a band with a group of friends whom i live with and have been in love with these sorts of adventures ever since i read all the Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor books as a child xD
Emma Jeddere-Fisher
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<p><strong><font size="4">Hello and Welcome!</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="3">We have now have our trusty steed for this epic adventure to Mongolia, a 2001 Suzuki Wagon R! It's been fully rally fitted, by Paul Sloane in Ketley, and is now out and about raising more donations for Mercy Corps!</font></strong></p><p><a href="http://img192.imageshack.us/i/20868149387838469011659.jpg/" title="ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7021/20868149387838469011659.jpg" /></a><br /><br /> </p><p><a href="http://img706.imageshack.us/i/suzukiwagonfrontleft.jpg/" title="ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting" target="_blank"><br /></a></p><p><strong><font size="3">Please email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> if you can assist us in sponorship, advertising or generally raising more money for such a good cause.</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="3">Check back soon for more updates!</font></strong></p>