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I really intended this blog to continue to be a thing after the Mongol Rally.  Well, now it is over for many (though not all) of us, and I have returned to the protective if smothering bubble of post-graduate studies.  I do intent to regale you with more…

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There are some things in this life you have to do.  Like sign up to drive to 10,000 miles across the planet in an overloaded compact car and hardly any preparation with a bunch of strangers.

Doesn’t everyone have these urges?

Today, however I found myself…

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Things on the Mongol Rally rarely go as planned.

For example I was supposed to write a fulsome update to the blog two days ago rather than an hour before we leave Odessa.

Then again we thought we might arrive in Odessa on Saturday rather than Monday, and…

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The past week has been a hectic montage of travel.  I arrived in Dublin on the 9th to cloudless skies and blistering heat.  This unusual weather has been the norm in the entire British Isles since last weekend and between you and I it may signal the end…

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The car is loaded and finances have been sorted.

Where doing this man.

Where making this happen.

The Mongol Rally #3: If I take the wings of the morning …I’m staying with friends on the sout

The Mongol Rally #3: If I take the wings of the morning …

I’m staying with friends on the south side of Edinburgh in a 19th century tenement flat which apart…

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