Episode 17 Olgii didn't appear all that attractive. Again there were puddles everywhere the size of swimming pools. Fortunately most are so deep and bumpy that drivers don’t rush through them so avoiding getting drenched with muddy, oily water isn’t as difficult as it could be. The population of the town is mostly Kazakh and Islamic so there are several small mosques, none very impressive. In the centre is a big open square littered with rubbish and...

Episode 16 We are now at Uureg Nuur sitting in the car while some cows graze around us. Now I will try and bring you up to date on what we have been doing to reach this point in time and place. The new gearbox arrived and more than two days was spent fitting it in the garage next to the Oasis. It was a very big job. A box was made for the old gear box and we shall be carrying that in the car back to the UK. D took the car for a test run, and as he feared the o...

Episode 15 L has decided that I should write something about what I've been doing since we got back here to the Oasis Guest House. Well, to be honest none of us have done very much though L does keep threatening to give me a wash it hasn’t yet happened. I am a disgrace she says. David spent quite a while working out what was wrong with the gear box, not really sure if he decided on any one thing but a series of possibilities. The car spent a while in the...

Episode 14 On a bright and sunny morning the car was packed up, me in my usual possy, and we set off out of town towards the east. My humans planned to follow the route of a suggested tour in the LP guide book. That was to prove easier said than done: First we were going to call in at the big, fairly new, Chengis Khan statue some 50k's out. Getting there was no easy matter because there is an unmarked turnoff that D sort of remembered from last year and kept a ...

Episode 13 Well I would love to say I had a good look around Ulan Baatar, but sadly I was considered too much of a handful to be taken around sightseeing, especially when my humans were going to use the busses in Ulan Baatar. It seems that pick-pockets abound in this city so they went off without me so that they could better safeguard their pockets. Seems a pretty poor excuse to me but then I'm only the stuffed toy. So the following is only L’s impression,...