London to Singapore

 We made it! Well, nearly. Paperwork issues (or should that be paper-no-work?) and a rules-based country where there is little wiggle room for non compliance of anything was asking too much. Never mind, we tell ourselves — we are here, even if the cars got no further than the shipping agents’ warehouse just across the border, on the southern tip of Malaysia. It’s no biggie: the first ever rally Nellie and I did was called The Casablanca Challenge, which went nowhere near Casablanca, so in that respect we’ve been more successful. Pedants might also point out that our cars were transported through Turkmenistan, so we’ve already bent the “London to Singapore” truth a touch.


On the upside, we are now in Singapore a day early, and Raffles have kindly allowed us to stay for an extra night (despite being full). It’s not what you know, etc.


Our celebratory dinner is tomorrow night, and the challenge for today is not to celebrate so much that we become incapable of repeating it.


Final thoughts in a day or two.



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