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  • The Space Race - Top Experiences.

    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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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 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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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...