This Blog is In Stasis

Whilst I drive this stunning vehicle to Mongolia with team mate Victoria as part of the Mongol Rally. We have another blog where you can monitor our progress. We are leaving from Goodwood on Saturday at the Festival of Slow and taking the 19:45 ferry from Dover to Calais. From Calais we’ll drive through France around the Belgian border and then into and across Germany into the Czech Republic where I have a literary surprise for Victoria. There we will party at a castle in Prague and early the following morning press on into Poland and then the Ukraine where we have a planned hotel stop (for laundry services/proper showers) in Kiev. I also want some chicken and to see the bars. From Ukraine we’ll pop into Russia for a short time and then into Kazakhstan and zip around the top of the Caspian Sea and across the country, popping back out into Russia and then finally landing in Mongolia around 3 weeks later where we plan to spend up to a week exploring the country and visiting some of the clinics, one of which our ambulance, Estelle, will ultimately be donated. This will, of course, be immense fun, as well as in a good cause, but is also a research trip for my second novel, currently titled ‘Rich in Small Things’. We also anticipate it to be somewhat arduous so once Estelle is safely transferred to the relevant authorities in Ulaanbaatar we will take to the air into Beijing and onto Sri Lanka for a week or two of lying down. They have elephants there and are also very good at massage. Then it’ll be back home to bore you all stupid with tales of our adventures. Bayartai!