Is that the Transylvania Station?
On the border of Romania along the E60 sits Oradea, a place that isn’t even nice to be from. The stench of the fields mingles with the acrid smoke of the steel works to form what can only have be …
Budapest
Knocking off Slowakia in a matter of minutes meant missing all of Bratislava, a place to visit if only to say the word – Bratislava. It sounds cool. Yet, miss it we did. From there it was on to Hungary …
Carpool Tunnel
As I type I have just relaxed my hands long enough from the panic strap to write a few words with my head buried in my laptop. Looking up induces palpitations as Tom keeps Swifty floored and redlined in an …
What Makes a Mongol Rallyist?
The launch at Goodwood and the Czech Out party were both perfect opportunities for us to meet other teams and make summary judgments about their personalities. There are any number of diplomats, spies and secret agents, geeks, car nuts and …
Pre-Czech Out Party Check In
From Goodwood to Klatovy in under two days. The rally is officially on! Starting Friday night your correspondent camped near Goodwood Racecourse and started getting into the spirit of things. Drinking beer until midnight with a few fellow rallyists and …
Time to Go
For something that’s taken nine months to organize, quite why there’s all this last minute rushing around is a bit of a mystery. There’s the roof rack, bungee cords and rope, a full medical kit, yep – with sutures and …
Second Sight
No monumental undertaking like the infamous Mongol Rally should be approached without the help of paranormal prescience. In our case it meant putting all doubts to one side and at last taking a friend’s recommendation and paying a visit to the best …
Digital Age
It’s pretty simple – start with the pinky on one hand and count each finger including your thumbs and what do you get? 10? Most people get 10. Logically if you start in 2011 and count backwards 10 years then …
Trendy but Dead
“Nice glasses, Mike. They’re kind of trendy,” my friend Greg observed. “Thank you. I really like these glasses, they’re pretty cool – if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve had several near death experiences wearing them.” “Well, that can …
Hypochondria
At the start of Jerome K. Jerome’s hilarious “Three Men in a Boat” the narrator, “J”, describes a visit to the British Museum to read up on the treatment of a slight ailment. He makes the mistake of turning the …