Fate of the most expensive grease in the known world

We arrived late in Prague, last night. Very late. But in Prague that's never too late to find a beer... (which we did).

Better still, this morning we found some brake assembly grease. Scouring the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides produced neither vendors of autoparts nor the Czech phrase for "Where can I buy some copper brake lubricating grease", so the failsafe was to wander into the Mercedes agent, where English was no problem, and to buy the tiniest poshest tub of the most expensive brake grease in the known world. But if felt like it would be worth every last koruna.

Eager to get out of Prague and on our way, we headed east towards the mountains, intending to pass through Hradec Králové and into Poland. We climbed ever upwards through forested mountain passes, pausing only to clobber our mis-behaving brakes periodically into submission. At some point in the afternoon, after a particularly irritating seizure in a village high street, we finally pulled over into a field, brewed up, and had a go at a complete front disc-brake rebuild.