Krakow to Kaunas, Lithuania

Well we awoke this morning in our travel inn room, after a bloody good sleep we got checked out about 11.30am, seeing as we only got settled into the room at 2am that same morning it did the trick.

We walked outside to find the car melting in the midday sun, it was 35 degree's C. The car is literally a greenhouse on wheels! This led to a day of extremely sweaty backs, but we plodded on towards our next Country, Lithuania!

We had a bit of a scare though, as we were going along the radio started turning on and off, after some frantic pulling the radio popped out, a bit of trial and error wire testing and the cause has been found, the radio wasn't earthed, for some reason the last 2 months it hadn't cared but now it decided to give us a panic that we might have another 8,000 miles with no music! After roughly an hour of the radio being down the topics of conversation turned from frankly inappropriate material to us trying to make dolphin noises....needless to say we're so relieved that the radio's back up and running!

One other music related story, we have only one cigarette lighter, so that runs all out power requirements from charging the walkie talkies, iPods, cameras etc...

One slight thing we over looked was the fact that when we need to charge our cameras, walkie talkies etc that we can't use our iPods to play music through the radio...so that leaves us with 2 options....local radio stations or CD's.

Local radio stations are only interesting whilst we try to figure out the lyrics to the foreign songs, so one of the other teams gave us a CD, now after listening to this one CD over and over again I can honestly say that it's going to be a long journey!

The CD playlist is a real mix, here are some of the tracks:

"Rolling down the river" - Cant remember the artist
"Baywatch theme" - I wake up humming this now!
"Simply the Best" - Tina Turner
"Why don't you like me" - Mika
"All shook up" - Elvis
"everytime we touch" - Skarda
Then this is followed by the entire black eyed peas first album!
Then to top it off "what's love got to do with it" - Tina Turner

Each song would be fine when listened to occassionally but constantly in succession, you quickly lose the will to live!

So anyway that's how it's going so far, we're currently running at about 12hours driving each day, which for the time being isn't to bad, but we are only on the 5th day....stay tuned!