Well, today wasn't quick or straight forward...Had a bit of a problem this morning, Ali dropped the bike twice in the space of a few hundred yards...It was a gravel road and I think she used the front break when she wasn't meant to. A few scratches on the paniers, a few lights gone and a big bruise on her leg. Nothing broken, but I think it hurts, she was limping earlier. She kept apologising that she slowed us down today, we needed a few hours to fix the paniers...

We made it! we're in Romania! Crossed the brder early in the morning and hit the tipcal romanian roads... There are only about 300 miles of mtorway and we were only on side roads. It's so strange being able to understand the road signs and the people, especially after the last 2 days. We got off the main road a bit too soon and ended up in a tiny village with off road gravelled streets. didn't know how to get back to the main road again, so we bumped into the &qu...

Left the hotel early this morning and crossed the border into Hungary around 14:00 but there was no border checking point, so I missed it. Apparently there was a sign on the motorway, but i didn't see it. Because there wasn't a clear crossing we couldn't find a place to buy the hungarian vigneta,so we had to keep of the motorways, so we took the side roads. It was ok until we got to a river crossing and the only way across it was a ferry that wasn't there... we t...

We set off again this morning and around 15:00 crossed the border into Slovenia. Hotel got a bit mixed up and they lost my confirmation (heart stopped for a bit) -the guy who booked it went on holiday and the rest didn't know about it. They eventually squeezed us in and we set of to the town centre, only to find out the the whole city is celebrating: we ended up right in the middle of the Lent Festival, an yearly festival that runs for about two weeks at the begi...

Race day today! Seats were great, David P. did a great job finding them. After the race we got separated from the rest of the group, it was manic trying to get out of the circuit -bikes and cars everywhere. Doug took the bike over a field "I haven't been to Mongolia for nothing!" and must've saved us more than 45 minutes of mayhem. The snag was though, that we got to the other side of the circuit ant couldn't find the way back. That didn't put him off i...