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pittengerw: http://twitpic.com/2a2ocq - #mongolrally Team Facerace's front wheel fell off in Budapest...doing a 3-point turn in a carpark!

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pittengerw: On the way to Budapest Hungary now #mongolrally

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Madrid surprise

The cheapest flights to Dakar from Casablanca turned out to involve flying back to Europe and out again.

A few hours in Madrid was not such a hardship and gave us an opportunity to take out some Euros. Flying out a day earlier than the other teams on the same boat, we left them to contact [...]

On the boat

The promised day had arrived! Our cars were due on the boat out of Casablanca to Dakar.

In true Moroccan style the day turned out to be a master class of chaos, cock-ups and palm greasing.

At first all seemed straight forward enough: the port police cleared us and a couple of other cars to head directly [...]

Moroccan runaround 2

Needless to say there was no point runshing back from the mountains. Grimaldi still giving us the run around.

Tomorrow apparently is the day.

A chance encouter may present another shipping option but won’t hol my breath.

Moroccan runaround

I believe we may have blindly stumbled into a little game that the locals like to play on the unsuspecting.

We rushed to Casablanca on the promise of an early boat – and missed a long promissed visit to Andy in Spain – only to discover that first it was a bank holiday in Morocco, [...]