There was sad news tonight that Neil & Richard in Car 30, Rhubarb and Custard have decided not to continue. They broke down for the umpteenth time at the start of the Kazan - Nizhny Novgorod leg two days and a 1,000 kilometres ago. Having spent 36 hours in garage emergency, they concluded that the prospects for adequate repair combined with the challenge of catching up were just too much. It's very sad but here's a picture of R&C queueing to fill up in - what now seem - happier times at camp in Mongolia (blog on fuel to come).
We in Emerald know just how close the margins are. It's only a week since our breakdown in Omsk when the harsh equations of the Peking to Paris faced us too.
We'll miss Neil and Richard and we'll miss instalments of Neil's outstanding blog. It's distinctly 3* - worth a detour - as a record for all of us of daily life on this progress together with quizzes and ephemera: pekingtoparis2016.blogspot.com or through the ERA's competitor links.
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