So Saturday saw a total of about 450 teams take off from 3 starting points: Goodwood Race Cicuit (England), Barcelona (Spain), and Milan (Italy) – at which time, they had already raised a mind-boggling £350,000+ ($560,500+ CAD).
- The Aventurists YouTube page with video clips from the launch
- Many photos from all three starts. Many more will continue to be added over the next month.

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Here’s some of the better quotes posted from teams on the road so far:
(Comments will continuously be updated throughout the rally with more antics as they are sent, but you can follow everything from HERE.)

LEONARD SPENCER: “Chinchilla has been found and corraled in the tent, where it has deficated in, on and around arjun’s sleeping bag. Fortunately he has yet to discover this fact.”

GOOD BYE PORK PIE: “30 piece brass band playing Smoke on the Water outside a cathedral comes 2nd place on today’s highlights so far. Shortcut through Blair witch forest comes first place. Now a spot of classical violin in Luxembourg city square, highly sophisticated.”

TEAM AWESOME: “We were just pulled over by undercover German police, taken out into the sticks and asked if we were carrying and marijuana or cocaine. We weren’t, and we’re back on the road.”

CAKE OR DEATH: “Day something or other. Czechout party was not sedate. Not hungover but only cos still drunk.”

THE LOST AND THE CURIOUS: “Today was petrol-day! Changed the fuel pump by the side of the motorway (that means no more spare.. bit worrying considering the bad fuel quality yet to come) then carelessly opened a pressurized (because of the heat) jerrycan and drenched myself in lead-free petrol. Spent the rest of the day dodging open fire!”

MONGOL LOONS: “We were walking through possibly the most beautiful square (Krakow) in the world and this seemed to bypass Jay who spent 10 mins watching a pigeon trying to take flight with a necklace of bread wrapped around its head!!!”

TEAM CHAROLASTRA: “Iran is awesome! People loving the Charo wagon! Told our driving is crazy – coming from Iranians, we’ll take that as compliment.”

THE BABYLONIAN: “Entered Turkey, twice! Border control suspicious of the 80 tennis balls on board, told them I’m teaching tennis to Mongolians!”

ISCREAM: “Rocked up at the Turkish border and there’s no one there, after some exploring we found all the border guards in their office watching the soccer. They asked where we were from then invited us in to watch the rest of the game while we finished our sangria. All the while the queue was building at the border. Once the game was finished they took us right to the front and stamped us out of the country.”

TEAM AWESOME: “Spent the morning getting lost around the Berlin ring road and the afternoon getting lost around what seems to be Berlin’s biggest gay park. Now having a beer at hooters. ”

GOBI CAR GET BATAARED: ” Two ambulances we overtook 3 days ago, just showed up: ‘I can’t believe you two are here. When you passed us, you were in mid-air, and we all said, ‘Those two aren’t gonna make it!”.”