Many thanks!

We would all just like to say thank you very much to everyone who sponsored us on our little trip. In the end we managed to raise £1,675 and the whole event pulled in £86,000 for Gemin-i.org, the most they have ever raised.

Thanks also go to Javier, Chris and all the others who managed to organise a bunch of idiots to drive knackered cars to the sunny side of Europe. Ta!

RIP The Blingmobile

We are sad to mourn the loss of our dear friend, The Blingmobile. She was taken to a nice sunny spot, where many of her friends already lay, to await the mobile crusher.

Goodbye dear friend, we shall miss you.

Many of her parts, however, found good homes. The seat covers, Tony the Tiger (who was brutally vandalised on the last night!) and the Blingcycle were all taken by "Lady Wrasse and the Sea Urchins" (in a Volvo estate painted to look like a clown fish) and should be winding their way back to Scotland as we speak. Hopefully, we shall see tham again, somewhere.

The Sultans win!

Our hard work has paid off. We won the "Best Banger In Show" award, which was voted for by the other teams. Time to sit back and bask in the glory.

Well done to Bangera Knights for winning most money raised, Club Tropicana for winning most money raised without corporate help and the guys in Peggy for winning best costumes. They thoroughly deserved it for staying in full drag the entire time!

Cabo Da Roca

We made it! After a good day behind the wheel, we arrived at our
destination, the most westerly point on mainland Europe.

After all the stops, detours and other teams who really don't know
where they're going, we triumphed at the finish line by coming
officially...

LAST!

That's right, last. We actually held up the organisers and set the
rest of the day back. It just goes to show that without the Sultans,
the day cannot continue!

Right, pitch the tent quickly and bring on the beer!

I told you it fits!

Pictures

A nearly rescue!

We just past the "Somerst Pieway Patrol" at the side of the road and decided to attempt a daring rescue. We turned round at the next junction and went back for our stricken comrades. We pased them the other way and turned back in the right direction. We readied ourselves by donning high-viz jackets, tools and utilising our emergency services siren, to find they'd legged it, thwarting our Somaritan-ness.

The Sultans of Bling - the 37th emergency service.

We have sun!

No update recently. This was mainly due to the campsite being half way up a mountain (well, a medium sized hill at least) and not being able to connect this thing to the internet. Mobile technology would be amazing if it smegging worked. The Sultans were also slighlty delicate this morning.

Camping was good last night, apart from random rain. The Bling table came out for the first time and the Blingcycle was modified to include a handy drinks holder, which was mighty useful. It then suffered slight damage during a "who can get it the furthest up the really big hill" competition, and is now stuck in top gear.

I'll try and get some more photos up, but this thing is really struggling.

We're pushing into Spain now and the weather is glorious. Not a cloud in the sky, scorchio! About time!

And we've just clicked past 1000 miles. Wooho!

Spain!

And its smegging raining again! Where's the sun?

Funny French

You would think that nobody had ever seen a car with a tiger glued to
it's roof before by the looks we've ben getting.