Our day started with a hoard of people slowly moving towards us. Kindda like a scene out of 'Dawn of the dead'. Ok that needs some explanation. There is a car boot sale in Wootton on a saturday and as part of our ...

Yes we are back on track……
The car is back sporting it new Clutch , Cam Belt, and rather expensive driveshaft.
The Roof rack is now on after Seb spreading it all over the floor and constructing it like a ...

Our car, with the new drive shaft installed, has had it's first little test drive! There are a few little things still to finish off. Ross explained that Steve will still need to put in a new little split pin and a ...

The rather expensive Driveshaft arrived today at the Suzuki Garage, so off  me Hayley and the Boys went to pick it up(I felt really nervous for some reason).Well anyway here’s hoping its all okay….
We sorted through our spares ,food and ...

We received more reports on the progress of our Visas today we now have Uzbekistan under our belts. Our passport’s are going to look extremely full and well traveled at the end of the rally.
Our Drive shaft didn’t arrive today so hopefully ...

Oh yeah….. We had an early start today but well worth it. We done a boot sale in Newport today and raised about a Tank and a half of fuel.
Man people see you pull up in your car and flock around to start rifling through your car afraid that they will miss a bargain. So we applied the tactic of putting it all just out of reach, more for our own amusement than anything ...

It’s a day closer to our drive shaft arriving……
Ross’s driving licence came back with the correct address on it so that’s a great weight off now. He still looks stupid in the picture though.
Collected the stuff for the Boot sale in Newport...

Hi folks, a rollercoaster day today.

It’s been a very hard slog trying to sort our drive shaft. And at one point we almost resorted to jacking up a swift down the road and pinching theirs from underneath. Instead, after a quick meeting with Steve, we decided to swallow our pride and beg at the Suzuki ...

ARRRRRRRRRRGGHHHHH………………
Well our part came today and looked all good….until….
The Splines didn’t quite match up on the Shaft, so we have a desperately busy morning tomorrow trying to find a complete ‘Drive shaft’ .Poor Steve who is doing the work for us. He has the patience of a ‘Guns and Roses Fan’ waiting ...

It has been a quite day on the rally front a few phone calls were made today which where good .and a meeting about an event which will be amazing so keep looking on the site around the Rally Launch date.

Seb was out and about today I’m not sure...

The task for today was hunting down the part we need….and we done it and ordered for delivery within the next 2 days .

We are now £72 lighter in the wallet department but happy about it now lets just hope it all goes well from now on in the car department..
On a bonus side of thing’s a lovely lady...

Bad news today

The part that was ordered for the car didn’t arrive and now we have been told by the company that we are out of stock.(they could of told us Friday ).
Steve is trawling the Net for another so here’s hoping.
We have decided to use the Euro tunnel ...

The news is hotting up about Iran, I was reading the Paper today about the rioting going on apparently the worst in a Decade. All I can say is it’s a good job that we will blend in huh.

I realised today when I was looking...

Yes….. Wahoo we have had some news on our visas today


So far Ross has been processed for Russia, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan

Seb for Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan…Iran though has..

I stuck my fingers together today.

The Viking boat was hauled from its temporary place of slumber today and on to the bench in the garden for a well needed patch up of the crack in the middle. (It was a job that was scribed into...

I started thinking about starting the harsh fitness regime today, and that was about as far as we got with that.

Maybe next week then……….
We are still waiting for a part for the car, Steve is working his little bottom off trying to get it for us without us being ...

Sebs camera arrived today and very nice it is too, he is so proud. He did do lots of reading to get the right one for him and it has paid off, I think by tomorrow he will have worked out how to turn it on.

I went and picked up the Fibre glass repairing ...

Supplies were the name of the game today.


We stocked up on food /medicines to add to the already growing stock pile of supplies.

Our car manual arrived today so now we are definitely invincible in the mechanical front…. (Well maybe a little bit more clued up)

Through this gadgetry they call the internet...

Our car should be back to its glorious self within a few days, spoke with Steve today and he is on the case now for bearings.

Seb has been working hard today on allsorts of goodies but the thing that impressed me was the work on ...

Who’s your favourite action /adventure hero?????

Well today was all about adventure lessons, some hard core training was put in today (about 4 hours).The lesson’s of choice were ‘Indiana Jones Raiders of the lost Arc’ and ‘Temple of Doom’.

To break up ...