DRIVE FROM SHANGHAI TO LONDON Apr-Jun 2011
(We haven’t had enough time to work on this site. You may check out some pictures and stories (read Chinese or use google translator) here: http://topic.xcar.com.cn/201103/luobuding/)
Route: http://g.co/maps/vd9sp
Favourite country:
Scenery – Turkey
People – Iran
Best part:
Traveled by couch surfing mainly, spent most of time with local hosts’ families.
Best moment
Chang’s: Visiting Citroen museum & drove old cars on his 32′s birthday in France
Jie’s: Paragliding above the sea in Greece (the first time in her life)
Worst moment:
Dealing with custom to get the car out of China
Favourite food:
Chang: garden BBQ in Esfahan Iran
Jie: 石榴炖鸭in Sari Iran
Worst food: NONE
Distance covered: 21682km
No. of days on the way: 60
Countries visited: 14
China-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey-Greece-Italy-Switzerland-Germany-Luxembourg-Belgium-France-the UK.
Passport pages used: 14
Vehicle: Citroen C5
Fuel consumption: 8.9L/100km
Equipments:
Useful: Soya milk machine (We showed it off whenever there was a chance.)
No use: Extra spare tyre
Funny moments:
1.Surrounded by loads of pupils in Kazakhstan, who were asking for our signature on their books,notebooks and even paper money.
2.Were invited to a Kurdish family in Turkey, the old lady kept kissing us, she even kissed our laptop.
3.Set up our tent in Cappadocia, next morning realized that it was the taking off
