Mongol Rally 2015

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Update via SMS

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Air ticket doesnt exist on the airlines system. Maybe staying in Russia!

Update via SMS

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Does Russia have the worlds slowest border? 15hr queues.

Iran

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Iran. Oh Iran, this is where the adventure begins! In fact, even before crossing the border, the adventure begins! So we meet up with three other cars in our convoy for Iran, having had two drop out at the last minute due to various issues. The border to exit Turkey is reasonably straight forward, drivers […]

Update via SMS

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Caviar and vodka at a petrol station just across the border in Russia.

Day who knows; it’s Cappadocia!

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Cappadocia. Wow. I don’t even know where to start! We ended up spending 4 days here, and stayed in three different hotels. A really nice one thanks to Greg and Pryia from Team Never Look Yak, a strange one thanks to booking.com and a brand new one thanks to driving around. The last one, the […]

Day 5: Turkey!

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Arriving inĀ in Istanbul at 3am had its positives, the traffic wasn’t too bad. That said, I really didn’t like Istanbul. Felt like any other large city without a soul. The only part that seemed to have a soul were the roads, which were insane, even at 3am. Once I realized that the best way to […]

Days 3 & 4 : What would Papu do?

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Before leaving, we had agreed that we wanted to spend more time in Asia and less in Europe – so days 3 and 4 were a big blur of motorways, small motorway pit-stops and caffeine. In these two days, we covered: Czech, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and finally Turkey. Key highlights included picking up […]

Day 2 – Czech out!

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Day two was as much a blur as day 1. Most of Germany and the CZech republic wizzed by, with only the occasional petrol stop and caffeine stop to pass the time. We did see things starting to change though, German toilets started giving way to pay-per-entry Czech toilets. Red bull started giving way to […]

Day 1. Launch!

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Day 1 – Goodwood Launch, and drive to Germany on Sunday the 19th of July, 2015 Despite waking up early, and getting to the gate first, we didn’t get to leave until fairly late. I dug out the Djembe (Tam Tam) from the car (bluebird is a treasure trove of unnecessary items!) and tried to […]

Update One. Yes. One.

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Finally. Internet. Unrestricted, unfiltered, untampered, internet. I think. So, what’s happened so far… A quick recap, stories and legends that have happened. This will be a text-based update, I will then try to add pictures once I find out how to upload them. I’ll try to break up the updates I type today into sections […]