Cape to Cape Expedition

Mirfield - U.K

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29th Jan - 1 hour to go - Pictures of the Land rover all loaded up !

27th Jan - Woodhead Mountain Rescue brought their Land Rover to have some pictures taken with ours !!

We have a Justgiving page to raise money for them Justgiving - Cape to Cape's Fundraising Page

25th Jan - Look North were coming at 10am to film the expedition however after a sleepless night with two heifers calving and one that couldn't, when the film crew arrived the vet was here and we were just about to do a caesarean on the heifer so they filmed that as well !! Farmers' epic challenge

24th January 2008 - We are in the last stages of panic mode now. Steve has just left for the Russian Consulate in Edinburgh as they have not been answering the phone the last two days but did say that the visa's would be ready for collection on Wednesday. They usually ring us if there is any problem so we are hoping that in the Russian way of "non-communication if all going to plan" that the visa's are awaiting collection.

Update!!! Just received an email from the Russian Consulate to say that the visa's are ready and can be collected!

I'm shopping for last minute items - video tapes and cigarette lighters! And getting the farm ready for Jim and Rosie to look after while I'm away.

23rd Jan - we were on Radio Leeds at 5.45pm and I have taped it Radio Leeds interview

22nd Jan - Much packing is being done at the moment with boxes and boxes of parts, spare parts, food and tools being packed and repacked and labelled etc.

The visa's are being processed up at Edinburgh and hopefully collected on Thursday 24th/Friday 25th.

Routes are being finalized with our proposed route to Moscow going through Kaliningrad so that we can do a "Full West to East Traverse" of Russia.

15th Jan - Preparations are coming along now. Wrights garage in Grange Moor have bought us a trailer to transport the tracks and flotation gear to Moscow in. The passports are in the Russian consulate getting the visa for all of us.

The leaving date is now the 29th January - Hull to Rotterdam overnight ferry.

We have been contacted by The Huddersfield Examiner, Yorkshire Evening Post, Mirfield Reporter and also Yorkshire T.V who are interested in Steve doing a video diary.