The French Riviera. Think…. heat, sunshine, blue ocean, expensive yachts, beautiful people, brown bodies, expensive cars and lots of boobs, then you have the right picture. Arriving at Juan-Les-pines and getting off the train, we were greeted with the heat of the afternoon, as we towed our suitcases through the busy streets making our way to our hotel we got a taste of what this town was about. A full on Holiday resort. Arriving at our hotel swea...

After getting back to our hotel at 3am in the morning after the canal and drawbridges trip, we well and truly missed breakfast. Waking at 11.45am im now feeling the effects of the flu. It was pretty cold out on an open aired boat at that time of the morning, even though we had rugs to cuddle up in, the air was crisp, coupled with the walk back to our hotel. However, it was worth every minute of it, even though we did question our sanity as we were w...

After getting back to our hotel at 3am in the morning after the canal and drawbridges trip, we well and truly missed breakfast. Waking at 11.45am im now feeling the effects of the flu. It was pretty cold out on an open aired boat at that time of the morning, even though we had rugs to cuddle up in, the air was crisp, coupled with the walk back to our hotel. However, it was worth every minute of it, even though we did question our sanity as we were w...

Catching a train from Helsinki to St Petersburg was a lot easier than we had visioned. We literally jumped on 20 minutes before the departure time and we were off at 217 kms an hour to Russia. Customs was completed on the train and we crossed over the border an hour into our trip. Basically the train slowed down, we saw lots of razor wired fencing and we were here. We were met at the train station and taken to our hotel Easy.! We were doing a Tour of S...

Well - what can i say. The past 5 days have involved little sleep, late nights, early mornings, coach rides, rain, walking thru forests and mud, sitting with mice, meeting some amazing people, watching some amazing drivers, feeling patriot, and seeing some beautiful scenery. Hence i havent had any time to post on my blog. As you can see from the map relating to this blog, there is a lot of lakes in the area of the rally. Its known as the 100...