Arg... This is the third time we've broken down!

We recon the engine  is getting too hot.

It's like an oven here. Record 43c!

Well, a long long got day today through mountains and lovely scenes. Then on the ferry across the danube river into Bulgaria. Very hot...

Serbian border  Szeged. Great plan go through Serbia, save time.

Oops, gotta pay 170USD!

It's not EU now on route to Romania... on a shoestring

Well - three countries today.

We stopped in a deserted village today and had lunch outside a derelict factory.

Things are very eastern block now...

Location Klatovy...

Camped out with  1.500 people by a bohemian castle.

The check out at Klenova.

We almost got scamed out...

Location Würzburg (Germany)

Topday was a struggle with the hills. We met up with  6 other team that we camped with.

People just look at the car in disbelief over here.

Rain, rain, rain - that's all we seem to be getting at the moment.

Wow... we left at 0700 for the ferry over which started great as the ferry terminal staff forgot to take our tickets ..so thanks guys..for not paying attention to the car with the giant boat ontop..i think that they were just emencely scared of it.

WE arrived at Goodwood and were ushered to the front of the Jacky Stewart stadium as one of the cool vehicles.There was a fine display of machinery out for all today to see.Our sail went up and the Island flag was flown proud.Later our Families joined us and were amazed at the size of the event.Im really going to miss Hayley and the boy´s.
We had the People taking picture after picture and...

Ohhhhhh....Yes what a Day

Today we had a Royal send off ...yes thats right´Prince Charles during his Island visit came and spoke with us about our Adventure at Ryde Fire Station,we were very honoured.
Earlier on...

We got all our goodies out today and we went through....

Only 4 days left but today was still a good one for preperation. It was a music day for me. I´ve been uploading Ross´ extensive...

Seb was the only person rallying stuff today and got busy with wiring in speakers to the car so now we can listen to …..ROCK..... all the way across to central Asia.
The stove needed servicing so out ....

Car wash day at the Fire station,it was a great turn out from the Station crew and a massive thanks to them all as they raised 170 pound for the Childrens foundation and 50 pound for the Benevolent fund all in the rain...

What a day,we had decided to attack the belly pan on the front as we decided that it was too low for its own good.Out came the jack and Ramps up the beast went...

….........Whooppeee..........
The bellypans are on at last..so now we have a Titanium rear end and a steel re-enforced front,now we are ´Mine proof` but were not going through Iran so at least we have the protection any way.Many a nerve was tested but we couldn,t have done it without Andy from the Forge,he is a legend and saved up countles hour and maybe days infact.
We are still waiting for our Tyres...

Every confidence was there today ,we awoke with the enthusiasm of a Schoolboy in a milk bottle factory with a shiny new catapult and bag of ball bearings. Today started with a Ring from Jim at ATS Euro master,GREAT news he has ordered us some AVON tyres for our spanking steel wheels that will see our Chariot all the way to Mongolia (of course we wont get any punctures).
At mid day we had to go and see Andy ...

Today was the last of our Grand Tombolas,a sad thing we know but the old fair great has served us very well thanks to the likes of 'Value 4 U´ and ´Johns shop´ of East Cowes who have helped us with the prizes.

We were at the ´Party in the Park` the...

An Early start for the intrepid Seb by 9:30 he had already blocked the side walk with the interior of our car …..we were stripping it out to shed some weight. Our bonus was that we found a gold chain under the seat expecting it to fetch us a sum of around 15 pound we took it into Newport to the Pawn shop ´How does 48 pound sound´ we heard from the lips of the gold merchant  , ´uuuhhh okay then´ we replied.
We also paid our...

We had a good plan today. We would get the car on the ramps up at the garage. We would then have  oceans of space to measure our stencil and cut anf fit the steel belly pans. We started early so we would be able to get at least one bit done and maybe even start on the second.

We had a good plan...

The power house of a beast that is our car was ‘Roaring’ round the island today and we were even overtaking people which proved to be quite funny as peoples faces were a picture when they saw what had just whooped them the Road.
The day started with a meet up at Isle ...

very early start again today. We headed for the car boot sale in New Port. This has been a positive in the past and it was again so this week. We decided to go heavy...