On the road at 0915 and hoping to cover a good few miles today. This road must have cost billions of roubles to build and as many to maintain. Unfortunately the scenery is monotonous, to say the least. Fortunately it is hilly and the road winds about a bit. If…
A dramatic start to today! A fire in the galley. More serious than Dennis burning the porridge! The cooker has periodically played up after being refuelled, but this morning it burst into uncontrollable flames. So serious, the fire extinguisher had to be deployed. The towel and tea towel, which were…
A milestone has been reached today. 100 days on the road. I’m celebrating with a beer while I write. Looking back, so much has happened. It will be good to have the blog as a record and reminder of all the many things we have seen and done. This morning…
First of all. Happy Birthday to Jaxon. Jaxon is Dennis’s daughter Sarah & Tim’s youngest, and a lovely boy. He turns a whole 5 years old, today. I bet you are looking forward to going to school Jaxon and it will be great to have your big sister Charley to…
Despite choosing a more expensive hotel, this did not ensure a good night’s sleep. Arriving in the dark, we hadn’t realised we were next to the railway. Hooting trains meant another disturbed night. The first task for the day was to try and locate some spare parts for the Land…
A terrible night. Not the fault of our Ger, which was perfectly comfortable. It was Saturday night and it appeared everyone was out partying, A karaoke bar close by, people walking past talking and shouting, some obviously the worse for wear, cars driving past with music blaring and…
A beautiful morning with a clear, blue sky. It was a cold night though, 3 degrees in the early hours of the morning. Woken by horses rubbing against the Land Rover. Not the usual start to our morning. Dennis had to do some maintenance on the Land Rover. There was…
This is such an amazing country. It feels really seriously remote. It is so vast and so sparsely inhabited. Even on the Pamir Highway in Tajikistan it didn’t feel as isolated as this. Just mountains, sky and lakes. Having been quite lost yesterday, we set off down the mountain track…
Up early, for us, before 6am. The Russian border opens at 9am and we were advised to get there in good time. We were there by 8am, to find about 30 cars in front of us, as well as a line of tankers. Presumably Russia is supplying oil to Mongolia.…
Late start this morning as we didn’t wake until 8.30. Camped under trees so no sun on us to wake us. Soon after setting off, we pulled into a cafe car park. Dennis had noticed we had WiFi and wanted to publish the blog (last night we had no signal).…