End of trip round-up

FAVOURITE COUNTRIES:

Daddy's- Turkey
Tessie's- Mongolia
Loong's- Laos
Lewis'- Mongolia


COUNTRY WE LIKED THE LEAST:

Group decision: Serbia


BEST MOMENTS:

Daddy's: staying overnight with a family in Iran
Tessie's: arriving in Singapore
Loong's: watching the moonrise in the Gobi
Lewis': catching lizards


WOST MOMENTS:

Daddy's: getting the car into India and dealing with customs
Tessie's: having on US$ 30 in Iran
Loong's: being told I had to sit in the back in my own car by Iranian officials
Lewis': daddy being an alligator


FAVOURITE FOOD:

Daddy's: grasshoppers (in China)
Tessie's: Loong's birthday barbecue food in Ulaanbaatar
Loong's: maggots (in Laos)
Lewis': Belgium sausages


WORST FOOD:

Daddy's; silkworm (in China)
Tessie's: Mongolia salt tea
Loong's: burger in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Lewis': Indian food


FAVOURITE MUSIC:
Daddy's: Never Miss a Beat- Kaiser Chiefs
Tessie's: Kung-Fu- unknown Chinese artist
Loong's: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix audio book
Lewis': Thunder Birds- Busted


DISTANCE COVERED: 25 000 miles or 40 000 km

COUNTRIES VISITED:
France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Mongolia, China, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Luxembourg
22 countries in total, 11 outside of Europe

FUEL ECONOMY: 40 miles/ gallon; 14km/ litre (this is 2/3 more efficient than going by plane)

WE USED 15 PAGES OF PASSPORT EACH

BITS OF EQUIPMENT:
Best: petrol stove, tool box and chairs
Wost: jerrycan

BUDGET PER DAY: £35 for all of us (including food, fuel and accommodation)

NUMBER OF DAYS AWAY FROM LONDON: 196

FUNNY MOMENTS:
Most funny-
Daddy's: stuck in a river in Mongolia
Tessie's: trekking through jungle Malaysia
Loong's: when daddy got fined by the traffic police in Russia
Lewis': Tessie driving off the edge of the road into a snow drift Turkey

Least funny-
Daddy's: being bitten by mosquitoes in Russia when drinking with youths in his underpants
Tessie's: daddy getting her to drive of the edge of the road into a snow drift
Loong's: Lewis being sick in the tent over everything
Lewis': leaving his birthday presents behind in Singapore