<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Woke up this morning to a group of police running around the outside of our grassy area and shouting some chant at the tops of their voices. Show-offs. Ate breakfast with an audience again but at least they were just standing at a distance and not taking pictures or videos. It's very green around here and also very hazy - not sure if it's heat haze or smog yet. Drove along a very nice du...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> We headed out of town this morning with an escort again, hoping for better roads. We didn't get far though before the tarmac ran out and we were on an unsealed road that was having work done to it although it was Friday so no-one was actually working. We kept having to head off the main road onto small dirt tracks beside the road - it was a good day to sit in the front seat as the surfaces...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The armed escort led us out of Quetta the way we had driven in, and it wasn't until we were on the road outside town that Adam realised they were taking us in the wrong direction - we were heading south. We soon turned around and drove back around the outskirts of the city - it is a sprawling place that lies along a valley so it took ages to get around it again, losing us a couple of hours....

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This morning we had to wait for our escort to arrive before Steve was able to go out and get fresh bread for breakfast, but in the meantime we were entertained by a tiny crazy Balochi man who spoke some English (Steve had described him the previous day as the village idiot). He kept saying the same things over and over about how Balochistan was great etc, and we had to come to his shop or s...

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> This morning we finally made it through the border and into Pakistan, into GMT +5 and onto the left side of the road again. The border crossing was pretty painless - about 3 hours all up without us having to do much except get stamped out and in. The truck didn't even take long to get sorted, and as soon as our police escort arrived we were able to head away from the dodgy Pakistani border...