After great support from Kuehne + Nagel and the German Embassies at the Belarus – Poland border we reached Germany at 7 o`clock in the morning, which we crossed until 14:15. After that we crossed France in a little bit more than 9 hours to get to Spain. In Germany we filled our engine with a little off oil Lukoil Genesis VN SAE 5W-30, because there we made our the 7th oil samples checking. Read more about We set a New World Record!

After Krasnoyarsk the traffic became more and more intensive. The section between Omsk, Tyumen and Kurgan cities has awful roads. There is a lot of dirt, mess and repairment on the road. And also here we saw a lot of broken cars and trucks. We met one of them - the truck driver, who stucked for one week, because of broken engine. Read more about From Siberia over the Ural

The highway between ferry and Yakutsk was difficult and time to time flooded. It`s a dirt road with big bumps. But we managed to do this and came to east side of Yakutsk at 07:00 o`clock a.m. There we met our tyre dealer Oleg Shumilov from Goodyear who made great job for us. So we changed our Wrangler AT with Kevlar tyres to Wrangler HP model. Read more about Back on asphalt!

It's interesting to see, how many motorbike groups are on "Kolyma" highway. We met two groups from Poland and Russia. And all of them told us about their fueling range problems. We drove through several road construction areas, where VW Touareg went through deep mud surfaces. Also we crossed two small rivers. Read more about Finally we made it to Magadan

It was wonderful and very interesting to meet a great hero: Karl Bushby - a british ex-soldier, who has been walking around the world since 16 years, leaving Punta Arenas and Chile in 2000. Shortly before Yakutsk we met him, when he was pushing his trailer on "Lena" highway. We spoked with him about an hour a got great inspiration for our own challenge. Read more about Around Yakutsk with a famous walker

The streets out here are often in repair and in spite of the loneliness, we have to face longer traffic jams because of the main roads, which are under construction during every summer time. The quality of the diesel is decreasing, so we are very happy to have the extra tanks to reach good quality fuel stations always.
Keep up with us! Read more about Krasnojarsk in Russia

In Ufa we passed by a Volkswagen workshop to check on the Touareg before we got into Siberia, direction Novosibirsk.. No problem occurs. It is now that we are surely looking for the right weather to make sure that we are passing Russia in the right circumstances. However, the Volkswagen Touareg is a great partner, as it always is - and, the continental weather is being quite
Read more about Checking the Touareg in Ufa

We reached our first big milestone - Moscow. We planned to stay two days in the Russian capital to meet up with some sponsors and Volkswagen Russia.
Read more about Moscow, sponsor visits and photo shooting

After our day in the SOS Children’s Village, we came back to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. We were invited to visit the German embassy, where we had the honor to introduce our World Record Drive to Peter Dettmar, the German ambassador in Belarus.
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We have left Lisbon after a great day with sunny weather. Through the night, we drove through Spain to France, the next day through Germany and Poland. It was good, smooth driving on mostly empty highways and we were able to test the best route for the world record run through Europe. Read more about Through Spain, France, Germany, Poland to Belarus