Day one of getting the Land Rover Discovery from Doha to Budapest.
Sir Peter Theisinger & Sir Manoj Fiennes took off at 03:55 on 6/01/09 with the objective of meeting up with Sir Brendan Shakleton in Istanbul, 4000 km by road in Istanbul on 9/01/09.
Pete in Green Village compound at 03:30, fully loaded.
Cockpit of the Discovery with no less than 3 different GPS devices.
KSA, Hufhuf
Small town past Hufhuf, where we saw one of the best desert camping shops. Everything you could want and cheap as chips.
Crossing a railway line.
Cooking Pete's egg sandwich.
Pete washing down the sandwich with some tea. Filling up the car was sweet - 40 litres of diesel came to 8 Saudi Riyals or 1.60 GB Pounds.
Saudi is not all desert. There were loads of oases and some freshwater lakes as it rained recently.
Hotel in Turayf, KSA. Outside temperature: -2 Celsius. Price for a twin room for 2 persons 200 Saudi Riyals, which is about 40 GB Pounds.
One of the desert pools of freshwater.
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