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  • The Space Race - Top Experiences.

    by Ben Coombs
    Following on from the success of last year’s Eagle Rally, in 2019 we’re launching our second adventure – The Space Race.  We’re creating this adven...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 12. A Fiat on the '500

    by Ben Coombs
    The day before I boarded a plane to fly to Slovenia and collect the Renault 4 from yesterday's drive, Laura and I found ourselves with a day to k...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 11. The Slovenian Job.

    by Ben Coombs
    As mildly adventurous road trips go, it's a pretty standard one.  Buy a cheeky classic in some far-flung corner of Europe, and drive it home.  It'...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 10. The Vietnam Special.

    by Ben Coombs
    So, you've just driven to South East Asia in a Corvette.  How do you celebrate?  Simple, you buy an old motorbike in Hanoi for $200 and ride it to ...

  • The Twelve Drives of Chistmas - 09. The V8Nam Expedition.

    by Ben Coombs
    The simple ideas are the best ones. Ideas like V8Nam.  Get a V8, drive it to Vietnam. My friend Lee had the idea after we'd completed the Mongol R...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 08. A Rover to the Sahara.

    by Ben Coombs
    2012 was a year of two very contrasting roadtrips.  In February, we'd headed up to the snowy coast of Scandanavia, to drive on the frozen Arctic O...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 07. A Jag on the Baltic Sea.

    by Ben Coombs
    By the time the calendar had ticked over into 2012, things were rather different.  Whereas eighteen months earlier, when we'd wanted our road trip...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 06. The Credit Crunch Road Trip.

    by Ben Coombs
    For today's drive, we're taking a bit of a departure, but bear with us, if you will.  When Laura and I returned from crossing Africa in the Porsch...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 05. The AfricanPorsche Expedition.

    by Ben Coombs
    I'd owned my Porsche 944 for years - since before I did the Mongol Rally and this whole adventurous road tripping became a 'thing' for me.  And on...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 04. The Daisy Drives.

    by Ben Coombs
    In the spring of 2007, I had a city-car shaped gap in my life.  The original Daisy the Mini had been left in Mongolia, never to be heard of again, ...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 03. The Rickshaw Run.

    by Ben Coombs
    It was spring 2007.  In the previous year, we'd completed the Mongol Rally, and driven the Fiat 126 through the Arctic Winter.  Time to rest on ou...

  • The Twelve Drives of Christmas - 02. Fiat 126 vs The Arctic Winter.

    by Ben Coombs
    Before I set forth on the Mongol Rally - as described in the first of this series - I was getting rather used to having Daisy the Mini as my aroun...