DAY 5

I've just driven non stop from Greece, through Macedonia and into Albania. The sun was blazinig hot in the sky when i started driving, I saw it go down and come up again before we reached Albania!

We drove through mountains in the middle of the night and through the morning and saw the most amazing views ever.

During this journey, i realised that my new best friend: MTV's international Man of Mystery - Wiqar, is the worst back street driver I've ever experienced. He was scared we were gonna fall off the cliffs every second of the way Lol.

By the time we arrived at the Hotel it was nearly time to check out again. Literally had a quick snooze and we were on the road again.

We left Albania in a convoy of Gumballers . On the way out, I noticed that nothing in Albania ever gets finished: The roads, houses and other bulidings are all unfinished. It made me think that we forget how lucky we are to live in Britain sometimes. We stopped off to get some petrol and all the gumball cars got swamped by people of ALL ages wanting pictures, Gumball stickers and T-Shirts

Oh yeah...Albanians on the roads was a scary experience for me too. They Drive with NO-FEAR - almost like a banger Rally from what I saw, they'd be world Champions at the BUMPER CAR CHAMPIONSHIPS...round at your local funfair.

Decided to take a different route to our next destination to save time. We ended up driving through, Croatia for hours and hours and then Serbia and Montenegro, before we finally reached Sarajevo and had a rest.This was when we found out that the Gumball Rally 2007 had been Cancelled. Devasted! I couldn't believe it. We weren't too sure why but we knew it was definitely off. Guttted. We'd just been driving for about 13 hours to find out that it had all been cancelled.

The rest of the journey is a bit of a blur cos I fell asleep in the back of the car while Producer Man James did the rest of the driving. Next thing I knew, I woke up HERE, in Bratislavia, Slovakia. But Gumball is over now so I'm gonna go get some free breakfast from my hotel (it'd rude not to) and then try and make my way back to the UK!

People, I've seen some of the most Amazing things on this Rally, met some great people and made some real friends. It really has been a blast. Thanks for following me along the whole thing. BIG UP MTV NEWS!!!!!!

Wot am i gonna do without my free breakfast every morning??? Anybody seen Shantha....

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