http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Crance/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Crance en-us Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:02:17 BST Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:02:17 BST Everything seems to be finally coming together Irsquove just finished my course of jabs got my expensive malaria tablets and are on the way to insuring our beast of a car The china tour is coming along nicely although our China part has extended by 5 days so far as no doubt more parts of the trip will.. With only 4 weeks left at work itrsquos all becoming very real and the dates for applyi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/blog-294019.html Got a CarAfter searching for a few weeks Autotrader finally came through and I found the perfect car it's a 1995 Mitsubishi Shogun with low mileage in a metallic green colour.. We've named it Mitch Also with the car bought I was able to book the ferry and can confirm the date of departure is 1st September at 1000am.. At the moment there is still alot to do but things are beginning to fall i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/blog-288744.html Looking for the Pefect Car We started by just browsing on the internet Autotrader the usual and came up with loads of different kinds of 4x4's so thought YES the one thing that's going to be relatively easy After looking for a few weeks we thought we'd better start ringing a few and asking for more details so we compiled a list and started ringing round We wanted a 4x4 in good shape with l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/blog-282864.html The JabsToday i had the first of my many jabs that will get through the trip alive.. Awaiting me in the nurses office was a pile of information into all the jabs i would be getting over the next 10 weeks On top the word Rabies ha ha..Today i just got all my boosters updated so Tetnus and MMR one in each arm GREAT I now have two dead arms but was quite relieved that they weren't going in my b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Kent/blog-274454.html First entry of the blogPlanning117 days until we leave and we have no car no visas no money and only a rough sketch of the routeWe have come up against barriers whilst trying to plan visas are getting trickier the more we look into them and noone seems to have any information which is rather annoying As we have recently found out we can't actually apply or the visas until 2 3 months b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-273809.html