Since the last update we have meet back up with the 2 Cornish simplefolk, are no longer with the Italians but are with 2 Spanish (sorry Basque!) who are great fun and a little crazy (par for the course I think).
Drove back up through Kazakhstan where we then had the option of taking the main road up to Russia, or taking this ridiculously small dirt track around the Northen Shore of Lake Baqlash. This would take 2 days and had no petrol - a point emphasised when we asked for directions from a lorry driver who told us we were mad and then insisted on checking the fuel gauges in our car. It was meant to be a wonderful 2 days skirting the lake swimming and fishing, but after 60 miles we took a wrong turn and only ever glimpsed the lake on the horizon from that point on! We did however end up driving through some amazing mountain scenary, where disconcertingly we bumped into a radiation monitoring van! The ground was nice and warm to camp on though....
The main excitment since the last update was that Tallulah broke a leaf spring on a completely flat section of road whilst doing about 45mph! We were so lucky in that it happened after our two days in the wilderness only 20 minutes from a town. We found a mechanic who could work magic with a welder, and with the help of a Lada leaf spring, she is now repaired, although one side sits a couple of inches higher than the other!
No blogs for ages now as we will be entering Mongolia! Keep on bumping into the mini with a telephone box on its roof.
For those of you who care we are both well and now spend increasing amounts of our time talking about food.
Love jules and Will xx
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