Friday 2nd July

10am hot..we all got bitten loads last night, there were thousands of tiny mossies..so small they were getting in through the nets, hopefully it seems that we have not got any bad reactions....11am the landscape is changing again, it's now green and swampy, agricultural and pongy!!! Heading for Kizylorda..getting closer to the town we see a bus stop with horses in, it's the only shade......found the bazarre...bought a new grease gun (we drove over the other one) ..pop and juice and samosas---Lees' face when he tasted the samosa--yum food......1pm now heading back N.E. it's gone deserty again---at 3.50pm the milage reads 149325 we have driven exactly 10,000 miles !!!!! Roads gone very bad again bumpimg and banging us around, then car on fire-- we all jumped out-- it was the battery..all ok...that's what you get if you shake a car battery very hard !!!!!