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[Bushman_uk]

Any small donations would be most welcome , My ex company that i worked for has promised to match me pound for pound upto £1000 so i need another £500 just a couple by many will make a huge difference, By the way it's a huge energy company that i worked for be great to get some money out of them . Please help

prostate cancer charity

[strimstrum]

A Little video of us on the road from Ulan Ude to Irktusk - TURN DOWN YOUR SOUND because thee is only wind noise at the moment - haven't had time to do the fancy editing stuff yet.

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[T.REX63]

Cool :woohoo:

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Me and Mark have made it as far as Omsk and we have had some pretty strange but great experiences since Irktusk - we stayed with a crazy Russian guy named Valodia in his wooden house for a couple of days and met all his friends. Valodia and his friends were so welcoming - we were the very first English people they had ever seen.

All very humbling for those who have so very little to give us so much.

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Now Where can we park our bikes ?????

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Parking in the hotel lobby Novosibirsk but you pay the price by being bitten in the eye by a mosquito.... poor old Mark (they left me alone)

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We are now in Tyumen

More pics and more of a story on my Blog

[CRAIGREVO]

:laugh: :laugh: Is that the owner of the hotel filming it on his mobile. :laugh: :laugh:

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That's the security guard - nthey were sh*t scared that someone would damage or steal the bikes - would cause them a bit of a headache so they thought it best to put them away from sight.

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[beddowsm]

Me and Mark have made it as far as Omsk

Wow, you are seriously motoring. I expected it to take you months to get that far. Same distance again and you will be at Calais ready for the ferry home.

How many miles are you covering per day on average?

[strimstrum]

Me and Mark have made it as far as Omsk

Wow, you are seriously motoring. I expected it to take you months to get that far. Same distance again and you will be at Calais ready for the ferry home.

How many miles are you covering per day on average?

Depends on how we feel - some days zero miles - but most days around 350 miles with some days at 450 and one at 760 (but that was not by choice - no hotels). We seem to average about 8 to 10 hours in the saddle with stops only for fuel. Some roads you can average 60mph and others are so bad that you are lucky to get out of 3rd gear. However, since Kansk the roads have been much better (aspart from our little detour out of the wrong turning into Kazakhstan where we had a 90km detour on dirt roads)

We will probably get some more off road stuff in the Balkans after we exit Ukraine - we are hoping to get onto the Transfaragaan in about 3 weeks time then we will be heading towards Croatia and then North West to UK

[Bushman_uk]

I just want everyone to know that martin has offered me no sympathy concerning my recent eye infection, in fact his first words where bet you wish the wedding tackle was hanging out !!!

Whatever you do , don't mention his poor knee and a zimmer frame he will go bonkers.

Just adding to that do you know that all the 5time we have been in Russia we have only seen two disabled people. !!!