Mongol Rally 2007: Prague and Beyond
Hello everyone from the amazing city of Prague!! It has been a GREAT few days. The departure from Hyde Park was quite the show with the array of cars and characters. We ended up convoying with 2 other cars heading to Dover where we saw the beautiful cliffs of, before driving our boat onto the ferry. We arrived in France about 2 hours later and immediately headed towards Belgium. Our convoy had grown to four cars, the other three teams consisting of guys from the UK: one Scot, one Irsishman and four English. A great group of guys. We exited France pretty quickly into Belgium. All four vehicles had walkie-talkies going which was helpful for direction comparing, but also useful for walkie talkie kareoke at like 2 a.m. At 4a.m we stopped in a truck parking area and slept in our car for about 3 hours, woke up at 7:30 and headed onwards towards Germany. That ended up being a big day as we wanted to make it to Prague that night for the big Rally party being held there. We got a bit lost in Germany (the highway signs dont display cardinal directions...) and then were held up briefly at the Czech border (a Welsh team we ran into there were strip searched...). We didnt role into Prague until about 1:30 a.m, exhausted. Up until that point I had been doing about 95% of the driving so needless to say I was ecstatic to have arrived finally (Jon - you proud of me or what??!!). Most of the ralliers were parked in this one car park so after getting together in a local pub until about 4 a.m, we put sleeping bags down on the floors next to the cars and attempted to sleep. Yes, in a car parking garage. On the floor. full entry here
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