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Day 230 Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Day 12 Wednesday, 4 August 2010
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  at 10:56 on The Gobi Gadabouts said 5000 miles down and still going strong, aptly celebrated with a roadside shashlik kebab. Currently heading towards the Altay mountains for one last night in Russia before crossing the border. Stocked up with supplies for desert this morning at the cynepmapket, which consist largely of freeze dried meat themed noodles.@ |
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Day 10 Monday, 2 August 2010
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| at 19:01 on The Gobi Gadabouts said In a seedy hotel in Omsk, the city where Dostoyevsky endured a mock execution. A decade in a Siberian gulag would be a breeze after 4,000 miles in the baking hot Punto. |
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Day 8 Saturday, 31 July 2010
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| at 11:30 on The Gobi Gadabouts said After a disconcertingly easy border hop, a night in an Egyption themed motel and 1000 miles of sweaty Russian bureaucracy we are now heading to Samara. After that... the Urals, Siberia and gulagsville. |
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Day 6 Thursday, 29 July 2010
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| at 08:16 on The Gobi Gadabouts said Will?s russian is his saving grace- he would not be chosen for his driving skills. Everything has good wrong on his watch. Speeding fine latest. |
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| at 08:13 on The Gobi Gadabouts said en route to russian border after lovely stop off in kiev. 31 hours straight driving and no food was not such a good idea. It turns out Will can speak russian |
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Day 4 Tuesday, 27 July 2010
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| at 12:58 on The Gobi Gadabouts said Will?s heavy breaking causes car to stop working on road around Prague. tail backs ensue, but a burly czech mechanic sorts it. Car fine, will in bad odour. |
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Day 3 Monday, 26 July 2010
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| at 16:25 on The Gobi Gadabouts said Madness on the stereo, car going strong and We have not been car jacked... Yet. Will winning the stalling comp. |
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| at 11:53 on The Gobi Gadabouts said German campsites are a hotbed of national stereotypes. Pushed the Punto up to 100 on the autobahn. It didn't like it. Next stop czech republic. |
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Day 1 Saturday, 24 July 2010
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| at 23:03 on The Gobi Gadabouts said just had pint of mayo with one chip. Ben is boring us all with memories of his mini break. |
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| at 11:54 on The Gobi Gadabouts said 90 percent of people on this thing are fucking cheats. |
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1 day before launch Friday, 23 July 2010
69 days before launch Sunday, 16 May 2010
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The photos of the car and the quiz are up - check out our gallery to have a better look!Hopefully our photography skills will improve before we leave. However, not even the jauntiest of angles or enthusiastic of photographers can make a Fiat Punto look like a sexy car that's gonna turn any heads. Forget comparing it to "polishing a turd", it's more like trying to sweep up diarrhea with your bare hands...in a puddle of mud...in the rain...in the Gabon...covered in sh*@t!!! Ciao for now. ... Read more ... |
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After a mammoth journey, searching the whole of the Internet (...basically auto-trader.co.uk), travelling the length and breadth of west London carefully inspecting every car within the limits of 1 to 1.2 litre built after 2001, in a search that took literally a couple of days, we finally have a car!!And yes - it is, as they say, a "decent little runner". A decent little green 5dr Fiat 1.2 2001 to be specific. Easily under a grand...it should do nicely. Now, we're all aware that some of the roads on the rally can be pretty rutted, punctuated with caverness pot holes, and in... Read more ... |
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71 days before launch Friday, 14 May 2010
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Last night saw the first fundraising event - the Mongol Madness pub quiz at Paradise in Kensal Rise. The night was a howling success and we raised almost £390 nicker - which will help nicely towards our fundraising total. Great feedback from all participants on the questions, written by the Gadabouts themselves. Shout outs to Lucy for providing the cracking car themed cake, Louisa and Damaris for providing some rather sassy pants for the raffle, and to everyone else who helped out with a prize on the night. Well done to "Chris had a... Read more ... |
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88 days before launch Tuesday, 27 April 2010
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Just over three months to go and we've finally done our first blog post...this doesn't bode well... Fear not! Leaving things to the last minute is in the Gadabouts' bone marrow, so we are confident in our ability to wrap all the preparations up within seconds of driving our car over the start line. One slight problem is that we don't have a car yet to even jump into before we start to move to cross the start line to start the thing to do... Read more ... |
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322 days before launch Saturday, 5 September 2009
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