This has been an adventures day, and we are now sure there is some kind of "Lada Good" up there who look after us.

Also we now know that driving a Lada in Hungary was not a bad idea. The mechanics we find here are some real eastern european masters of improvisation. After one hour our gearbox is down on the floor and a new one is loaded out of a truck. While Morten and me enjoy ourselves with screwing apart the old gearbox a new one is carefully fitted into our Lada. Several of other problems is also solved meanwhile, and like a little miracle we are back in the game. Half a gearbox and a lot of experience richer.

We are now in Budapest and the Lada is parked at the square where the race will start tomorrow at 9 o'clock. We have been out drinking lots of bears and all the Norwegian teams have met for a real Norwegian "nachspiel" at our hotellroom.

Tomorrow the race start and we head for Bamako.