Mongol Rally 2018 - Team Nervous Breakdown

The Last Leg

With a sense of anticipation, tinged with an element of foreboding given that the end was in sight, we hit the Mongolian/Russian border...

Keeping in Steppe - Mongolia

The Russian/Mongolia border was a hive of early morning activity as ralliers hurriedly scrambled around to decamp and ensure that we left...

Russian around

We reached the Kazakhstan-Russian border in the early hours of the morning with buoyant optimism that the inhospitable time of day would...

Kazakhstan in 21 hours...

Replenished and on the road; stacked high with supplies, new underwear for Charlie, and a dramatically improved car, we set our...

Making ourselves at home - Kyrgyzstan

Having nursed Bluey through the Pamir, passed the lakes and up the mountains, Tajikistan (and it’s roads) were finally in our rear view...

Flirting with Afghanistan

We entered Tajikistan with one aim - to conquer the Pamir Highway, which starts in the south of the county and winds over the mountains...

Friends Reunited - Uzbekistan

Crossing the Uzbek border at Alat, and catching the last of the early evening sun, I thought it might be wise to find some immediate and...

Escape from Turkmenistan

By far the most mysterious of the ‘stans, we entered this totalitarian republic using our hard-fought-for five-day transit visa. The...

Take me to the Finnish!

Passenger’s log, portgate supplemental, we set sail on the good ship Berkarar, a state-owned Turkmeni vessel. By state-owned we mean the...

Azerbaijan(uary we might get over the border)

Azerbaijan, whilst not the worst border crossing of the entire rally, it gave us a taste of international experiences to come. Arriving...

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