Mongol Adventure

The kind owner of Inverness Tyre Services has donated 4 winter tyres for our Panda - the following pictures are of the tyres getting changed.

Just seeing if anything breaks! Better to know now!

A short mobile phone video clip of the car off road.

Last night I have spent nearly 5 hours planning routes and estimated dates of entry - this has been some task. The maps that I have seem to be in three different languages and road numbers are not consistent. I finally got there around 1 this morning. Also had Martin on the phone asking what he should put on the visa forms! :-)

It's really brought the trip to life planning the route.

Not long now )

Thanks to Tom and Lawrence the car now has an MOT.

Couple of pics of the Panda getting the welding done.

When the Panda went for it's first MOT (to see what needed repaired) it came back with 2 pages of problems - most of this was just stuff like seized brakes as it had been sitting for a couple of years.

Kirk and Martin have done all the repairs that they were able to do, but now it’s going to the garage to get some welding done and hopefully pass the MOT.

Lawrence (in the photo) has kindly offered to do the welding in preparation of the MOT.