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Day 14 Friday, 6 August 2010
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  at 03:42 on By Jimny said tried wild camping in some iranian forest, got surrounded by wild dogs so slept in jeep for a few hours. Will do a big update soon. |
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Day 10 Monday, 2 August 2010
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| at 05:28 on By Jimny said found a camp site with a pool so decided to have a day of yesterday . Stayed in the valleys with uh ancient castles. Woke up to fifty ho/KwΩg
r^@Uxt air balloons with run rise. Big drive today d]$@ |
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Day 8 Saturday, 31 July 2010
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its been pretty manic the past week, little sleep and lots of driving... ive not had chance to make a decent blog post other than the SMS updates which only seem to allow one message of update to appear on the website. after launch we travelled to france, ended up blagging a free nights camping (since its all for charity ) :-) then it was on towards the part in the castle in CZ, we stopped off for some Bratwrust as you do and had a good old knees up with the rally crew in the CZ castle.. Since then we... Read more ... |
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| at 13:41 on By Jimny said few large beers last night and the blue mosque in istanbul, eating up the motorway on route to gorema! So hot about 40C |
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Day 7 Friday, 30 July 2010
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| at 15:30 on By Jimny said just over 2 000miles that we have done! Just bumped into another team at turkish services! Looking for a hostel in city centre then a 3team/1@YwΩΣ{^@Ux night out!@ |
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| at 13:17 on By Jimny said just entered turkey after a bit of messing about at border control. Fairly straight forward! On towards istanbul for the night stop. |
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Day 6 Thursday, 29 July 2010
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| at 17:55 on By Jimny said Just broke our top speed record, 90mph! Dont think we will do that again, just near the black sea coast where were gunna camp on the/_
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| at 13:58 on By Jimny said ended up a fifty dollar fine, not bad when they started at 200 and to take the passports. Romania has redemed it self the transfa |
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| at 06:28 on By Jimny said team carolastra in front of us just been pulled by the gypsie police, waiting for the fine to be dished out then back on the road. |
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Day 5 Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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| at 12:43 on By Jimny said great night in budapest and one of the best kebabs we have ever eaten.. Missed out on the goulasche tho. On route to the transfargaria |
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Day 4 Tuesday, 27 July 2010
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| at 15:46 on By Jimny said just hit our first 1K miles. Only 9000 more to do |
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| at 14:43 on By Jimny said on the road to budapest. Party at the castle last night was a good old knees up apart from gettin the chairs robbed, think we kn |
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Day 3 Monday, 26 July 2010
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| at 12:02 on By Jimny said just entered cz. Convoying with some yanks to klevona castle. |
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Day 2 Sunday, 25 July 2010
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| at 15:13 on By Jimny said somebody txt us the formula1 results please. Our number can be found on website. |
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| at 15:07 on By Jimny said had a taste of some quality german meat. The orginal bratwurst. Just left koblenz now heading for wurzburg to camp for second night. |
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| at 12:41 on By Jimny said Just seen our first lot of other ralliers out of england. |
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Day 1 Saturday, 24 July 2010
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| at 22:51 on By Jimny said rocked up at a campsite and they let us stay for free. Result. |
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| at 19:32 on By Jimny said to all the doubters, we made it out of goodwood and we are now in france.Were aiming 2get2 liege for1st night camp. Convoying with |
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| at 19:04 on By Jimny said to all the doubters, we made it out of goodwood and we are now in france. Were aiming to get to liege for first nights camp. Convo |
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| at 14:34 on By Jimny said finally on the track and leaving goodwood! Any good? |
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| at 11:03 on By Jimny said we are at goodwood and loving the sun |
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4 days before launch Tuesday, 20 July 2010
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we have a UK Mobile phone number which you can text and call us on and we use the same number throughout the entire journey!feel free to send us texts of encourgment along the way or call us07924555798 ... Read more ... |
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17 days before launch Wednesday, 7 July 2010
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we now have full GPS tracking facility on our jeep - you can see to the left a page called " TRACK US BY GPS " click on there and this will load our tracking page, make sure you go full screen to get a better view.Obviously until we set of there will probably only be test runs, but when we set off you can see our exact location! keep tracking us daily :-) ... Read more ... |
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18 days before launch Tuesday, 6 July 2010
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Well theres 18 Days left before we set off, and we are nearly there with our preperation workWe have Kindly been donated an airbed to keep us slightly comfy along the way, thanks to Aerobed Also thanks to the comapny I work for Timico who also made a donation towards the cause.We have a Uk mobile number which we will update before we go where you can ring us at local mobile rate and hopefully were going to be fully trackable with a GPS navigation system, track our... Read more ... |
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33 days before launch Monday, 21 June 2010
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Ok so we are starting to get geared up, only about 35 days until we set off... Just ordered a World-Sim card, which basically means we get a UK phone number and majority of countires its free to recieve calls with the exception of a few, and text messages are fairly reasonable for us to send which we will use to update our website, map positions and twitter account! Here is a list of the countries its free for us to recieve calls on (we will update website with the phone number once we have it)France - FreeGermany - FreeCzech... Read more ... |
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46 days before launch Tuesday, 8 June 2010
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We have an article on the BBC website - take a look here http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lincolnshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8728000/8728165.stm ... Read more ... |
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54 days before launch Monday, 31 May 2010
58 days before launch Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Well, its gone from the free locol paper to the dizzy heights of BBC Radio Lincolnshire! you can download the audio from here https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9Tyyag-XfxIOWU1YmZjZTEtOTU5YS00MDQ0LTk2ZDItY2M0YjIzMTgzNmFk&hl=en_GBHere is some pictures of our visit to the studio! From Mongol Rally ... Read more ... |
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69 days before launch Sunday, 16 May 2010
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We have the lovely donated print from the Red Arrows listed on eBay! its on a 10 day listing so if you like it then bid away!http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120570808161 ... Read more ... |
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127 days before launch Friday, 19 March 2010
3889 days before launch Tuesday, 30 November 1999
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| at 00:00 on By Jimny said just packing the jeep ready for goodwood |
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