Stepantsminda, Georgia

3 and a half hours over ze Russian border. Hanging out with ze Germans. Good fun.

Tbilisi, Georgia

met another Mongol rally team. Got rained in, got drunk and dressed up in costumes.

Gori, Georgia

just bought two hammocks (we actually found the hammock district) off stalins great granddaughter. (Do some research, birthplace of stalin)

Sarpi, Georgia

best border yet. Through in an hour and went for a swim with the locals.

Rize, Turkey

Samsun, Turkey

nice apartment

BeyoÄŸlu, Turkey

back moving again. Woohoo. drove along the coast to Samsun. nice relaxed place after the hectic pace in Istanbul (including the cops chasing us but we got away, ha) hope they let us out of turkey now

Istanbul, Turkey

crazy turkish border took ages and Istanbul is absolutely mayhem. I refuse to drive around with these lunatics. Here for a few days to try and sort out visa problem. Looking like we'll have to alter the trip though

Sofia-city, Bulgaria

Due to three hours at the serbian border and two hours of traffic jams took up 13hours to get here. Tired

, Serbia

must do a lot of driving in order to sort out the Russian visa in Istanbul. Belgrade not as nice as some of the other places we've been but only a flying visit. Absolute dive of a hotel