S3EP2 - The reality of the Mongol Rally
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Welcome to a brand new Kinging-it Podcast season on THE MONGOL RALLY! What is the Mongol Rally we hear you shout? In a nut shell, we drive a 1.2 litre Fiat Panda called Fferanda babes all the way from our home town in Wales to Russia. In this series we will be delving in to some untold gossip, stories that we weren’t quick enough to get the camera out for, unleashing some romantic secrets and having a laugh about the mental-ness that is - the Mongol Rally. In this episode we’ll be chatting about everything went into preparing for the rally. How we trusted a stranger with our passports, went to Halfords in Craig’s dad’s suits to try and get a free tent and got kicked out of Barclays Bank because they thought we were terrorist (true story)Tune in for some belly laughs and some ‘no you didn’t’ moments that will be sure to shock your socks off! 00.00 Introduction 05:26 Our sponsor 08:48 Mayhem 23:35 Hungary fact time 27:19 Budapest 30:09 Crossing into Serbia 33:01 Our first car disaster 37:14 First impressions of Romania 40:11 The Transfargarasan road 45:05 Romanian bears 50:21 Bribes in Bulgaria 53:37 The thunderstorm that ruined camp 56:02 The first argument 58:01 Sneaking the drone into Turkey 59:56 Conclusion Download the podcast! Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/kingingit Android: https://bit.ly/kingingitandroid Listen on Spotify: https://bit.ly/kingingitpodcast Thanks to our sponsor Babbel - Try the languange app for free here: https://www.babbel.co.uk Watch our Mongol Rally Documentary here - https://youtu.be/sbaolQIlQLo Our Mongol Rally Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZp1k1hX0J56MXAtJ-VByeouZ5Aqcg4ZN Aimee's blogpost on the rally: www.kinging-it.com/mongol-rally-2018/howtodothemongolrally%3fformat=amp If you haven't watched our season two India series then you can binge them all now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEb_OFs5Vk&t=1112s Get your Kinging-It Merch here -https://www.kinging-it.com/shop   In this episode we’ll be chatting about setting off on a trip of a lifetime, seeing bears in Romania, getting robbed by the police and the reality of what we had gotten into.
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