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Hey you can join ou'09 team, we are on facebook as adventure rallys group, or message me and I will invite you to join. Becks
Keep it safe mate. A rest day sounds a good idea! Good to see you and the bike holding up..... who needs one of those overpriced overweight BMWs
Neil and Jan
I have tried on several occasions to upload photos but it does't work just keeps saying image is too big. The best ones are available to view on my blog page.
Matt
Great that you have all arrived safely. We are very proud of you and look forward to hearing about your trip and seeing the photos. Read your travel arrangements on hotmail and look forward to seeing you on 8th. Enjoy your time in Mongolia.
Love Dad, Mum and Poppy
Hi Sergey,
We made it to the Mongolian border, thanks to your repairs the car was OK on the roads, they were very bad to Irkutsk though, sometimes they were just rocks and mud.
We are home in England now and the car is waiting to be collected by the charity.
Thanks again for your help,
Peter
Can you upload the best ones to your team pages and tag the locations? We can then see them on the map with all the other teams photos. Thanks.
Nice one Hugh for getting back to us. Really glad you made to UB and with the car. Just seen the photos my favourites titled 'swarm' and the 'mongolian ones'. Also looks like the exact moment you had that lighting storm in Astana Kazakhstan it was happening with me in Semey Kazakhstan freaky. It must of been difficult with all the problems with the car, at any time did you feel the Skoda wasn't going to make it. I have just sent you a personal message.
Regards
Matt
Photos are going up online here for all those excited to see some graphic portrails of our epic adventure: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/woof82
Thanks Matt. We saw your car at the finish so we figured that you made it safely. Congratulations!
I have a few photos of when we were in convoy, I'll put them up here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/woof82
Driven by Stig Blomquist and built by Ben Rainsford, this V8 Mk 1 Capri Perana (the Perana name was coined for the V8 Capri conversions in built and sold by Basil Green in South Africa) is a very rare and special car indeed. When it was sold on after the London-Sydney Rally, Ben rather coyly would only say the sale price was enough for 12 years of school fees for his kids! - That's a lot of cash ... but it was lot of car with a lot of pedigree. It's new owner (Paul Darrouzet, Australian business man and historic rally participant) entered it into a couple more historic rallies, including the East Africa (Kenya) Safari, and the Sud-America (Argentina). It crashed out of the London -Sydney 2004 in spectacular fashion by all accounts! You got to think that was an expensive crash!
You're posting this on the site for the Mongolia Charity Rally run by Charity Rallies! Perhaps a read of this site, a look at the photos from the teams, and a chat in the forums will help get you going.
Nobody is going to stop you paying £650 to drive to Mongolia with the profit making Adventurists, but a lot will wonder why you did after you found this site and the not-for-profit Charity Rallies!
Have a read of the forums:
http://www.charityrallies.org/forums/index.php/topic,542.msg6164.html#ms...
"Nearly without exception, every team I met on the Mongol Rally along the way expressed concern with the way things had been run for them; many of them explicitly saying they'd wished they'd heard of Charity Rallies earlier than they did (i.e. before they forked out cash to The Adventurists)."
and those unhappy teams had only paid £465!
Whaw you booth did a great job and a wonderfull expirience.
I can understand in the comments that leaving this car must be hard after
such an adventure. Let"s hope that it will continu a marvelous second or even a eternal live in Mongolia.
We"re looking forward to see you and the girls(our daughters) are realy
excited to hear the story's and comments.
PS 30 August rdv Wachtebeke by our sister
Greetz from Elisa Emeline Patricia and Michelinman Dirk
I don't now much about the Mongolia Cahrity Rally, I would actually much prefer to take part in a rally that does charge as much as 650 to take part, thanks for your reply Becky
Have some nice relaxed days in Ulaanbaatar and we'll see you in Kluizen.
looking forward to hear all your adventures.
big kiss
Enny