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The Black Sea
Friday, July 18th, 2008This blog post is beıng written in a little seaside town called Tirebolu which is about 85 kms west of the port town Trebzon in Eastern-ish Turkey.
After our last post we found out that the first team to reach the Georgian/Azerbaijani border had been turned back on the grounds that their car was right-hand drive [...]
Intercontinentality
Monday, July 14th, 2008This post is being written in Asian Turkey, as we crossed the Bosphorus Bridge yeterday and officially changed continent! We spent two days in Istanbul fixing up Bertha and enquiring about an Azerbaijani vısa for Amy, with mixed success. James and Visesh spent a day getting all Bertha’s… quirks looked at by mechanics that did [...]
Internet!
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008We have found internet in the form of a 0.45Ghz PC running Windows 98! This gives us a little more room than usual so let us update you.
One place we really skimmed over was Budapest, mostly because it was really hectic. It was raining like a British summer, the roads are extremely confusing to navigate, [...]
T-Minus 17 hours
Friday, July 4th, 2008As usual - after 8 months of time in which to plan we have pretty much got everything done in the past 11 hours. We woke up this morning with no V5 document to prove that we owned the car, half the team had no medical travel insurance, our passports were still in London, [...]
Visa Update!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008There is a light at the end of the tunnel!
Adam and I have spent a couple of days in London in attempt to sort the final two (three for me) in time for the Saturday leaving date. After a very unproductive Monday (arrived too late as the queue was too long and the Uzbek embassy [...]