Following a great weekend and a beautiful wedding in Ireland Fintan and myself are recovering. As it's a bank holiday, there's not much we can do. Fintan doesn't feel great anyhow. Waiting on hearing from the Uzbek embassy via VisaHQ. They are a visa application company. You send off your application, passports, photos etc and they do the embassy visits for you. If they work out well for this one, we might use them again for the Chinese visas next month! So we...

We got some visas!! Kazakhstan and Krygyzstan! Woohoo! These parts are exciting... there are a lot of not exciting parts though.I would say to anyone else thinking of doing something like this - give yourself plenty of time to get everything in order. Getting the car ready, making preparations for worst-case scenarios (boo!), talking about a lot of things that don't really interest me, but Fintan gets really involved in, i.e fuel filters, recovery gear, security...

Hi all! Hopefully this will be the start of a beautiful friendship, so long as Fintan and I keep up the posts we hope you can keep up with us as we travel to Australia in our lovely car! We left work in December and had a good, relaxing time over Christmas with our families in Cork and Cornwall. The plan at the time had been to drive off into the sunset (well, heading east so really the sunrise) in March... o, little did we know what was in store! In January we...