Dear friends, World's smallest Grande Armee is very happy to tell that they have safely reached Smolensk! We are now no longer a duo, we've been joined by Freya, a nice four wheel drive, sadly without a motor.

After 30 minutes in the centre of Smolensk we were already spotted by the local TV

Dimi gave his first interview in Russian! Karsten corrected where necessary...

At this moment we're staying in Yevgueni's house in Smolensk. The floor is heated and we immediately threw ourselves onto it. Imagine the indian Krishna music in the background. Thanks again to all the people of Smolbattle.ru, which is really a wonderful society!

Here's a great joke. While we were entering Smolensk in the exact fashion that you can see in the photograph above, a white car stopped, a man stepped out and asked us very seriously if we knew where the psychiatric hospital was! You won't believe it... we knew exactly where it was. We passed it half an hour earlier and even wondered if we shouldn't pay a visit to the local Napoleon.