Episode 12 After crossing the border into Mongolia I was getting quite excited as I would see Cybil who runs the Oasis guest house again, I rather liked Cybil and Dimitri would likely be about, he and David had become friends last year. Since last October when we left Dimitri and his girlfriend Gulnara have got married though she is not here, she is still back in Russia organizing a new passport, quite a process there apparently. L keeps saying that the soviet s...

Episode 11 Just to inform everyone that we made it out of Russia on due date, whoopie!! In the end we had a good run from Tyumen departing there at 3.30am on Tuesday 18th and arriving in Irkutst, 3200k's later just before miday on Friday 21st June. What a relief. Despite being told on the phone that the visa office closed at midday it stayed open all afternoon, my humans put in for their Mongolian visas there and then and got the urgent expensive ones by 3.30pm ...

Episode 10 Phew! Well L zipped through that last episode, can anyone understand what the hell she was on about, I'm totally confused. At present we are sitting in the showroom of the landrover dealer in Tyumen in Siberia, 300k east of Yekaterinburg. D is having the wheel bearing checked on one of the wheels as he fears it may be collapsing. Just another thing! Anyway, this would be probably the most expensive town in Russia as it’s the centre of a large o...

Episode 9 As we headed towards the Russian border near Salla we saw several elk, or at least we believe them to be elk, three separate lone animals and a mother and calf, if that's the right word. Lyn got some photos of them as best she could. Finally we got to the Russian border. I created an impression with the customs people who looked in the car, they asked about me so I was introduced. Nobody seems concerned that I didn’t have a passport or visa, jus...

Episode 8 So we came back into Sweden and slowly made our way to Linkoping. This is where L's friend used to live and where her friend’s daughter and husband live. Also where D is getting some car parts sent to by courier company: We had a couple of days here before the parts arrived. One day we went to the flight museum. This was a great place to visit because it had a great many old aeroplanes from before WW1 to after WW2 including helicopters used in V...