We made it into Istanbul, late last night; crazy driving and crazy people on the ring roads of what is possibly the most idiotic traffic system ever devised. But we made it (again, thanks to the magic blue dot on the iphone) into our first great city on the Silk Routes, the gateway to Asia. Istanbul, not a cliche... Turns out the guest house, we had navigated to was also the first choice for another rally team "Thunder Camel" two excellent lads fro...

Our journey into Turkey was fairly smooth, customs seemed fairly friendly relaxed and happy to see us trough. We had a but of a sketchy moment when they realised we didn't have Bulgarian road tax on the way out. This for us, was just a short walk to the kiosk on the inward crossing to purchase the relevant tax disk for a week stay for 5 euro. A local man in the car in front told me that had we had been stopped in a town by local police we would have been in big t...