At 7.30 we meet at the Heroes Square to load some of our charity items into the bus designated for this task. Team Bilnor has brought some really big boxes with hospital equipment and even the Lada had room for a computer and some medical equipment.

The Budapest Bamako is a big event in Hungary and all people we meet have heard of the race. Lots of people also come to wave us goodbye this freezing cold morning. Morten and me are very happy to dress up in our Fjord Riders driving suits. The suits has shown to be not only nice when its cold, but also quite functional when driving the Lada, which any minute might need some attention.

While driving out of the starting area we are given the race-sheets which tell us how to earn some points in todays etape. After stopping one hours to get our video eqipment up to date we head for the challenges and it show out to be really fun. The coordinates we have been given take us into some nice offroad terrain. Actually it is very hard to find the places since the route given by our GPS not always is possible. After finding one of the geocahes and failing on two we decide its enough offroad driving for us and go to get some gulasj at a small restaurant. It taste delicous.

Bresica in Italy is supposed to be the finnish of this etape, but since we are in Slovenia we decide to have a nice dinner in Ljubljana. Because of the dinner we are now a bit behind schedule and since the Lada is not really a car made for paved roads, the speed is quite slow. We are now about 5 hours behind the other competitors, but this will soon change when we reach the desert.