A Simply Fab Life
We’re updating the Roadtrip EU route on Google Maps, for family and friends to follow. We hope you guys enjoy, or are perhaps inspired too! See you on the road!
It was after 5pm when Rob, Diana and Naomi trundled into town. Bienvenue chers amis!
A big adventure doesn’t necessarily mean miles and miles away … it can also be right on your doorstep! After inheriting his father’s boat, Rob and Diana, our…
Since returning from Portugal last year, Muddy Boots developed a rather nasty disposition of break-dancing across the road whilst travelling around 80 km/hour. Also known as the “death…
What a blast! We’ve been to a couple of Ladies Days with the Land Rover Club, but this one (in 2012) was really funky.
We popped over to the 4×4 terrain in Almere to find out more about the (in)famous Dutch Offroading Challenge.
Bikkel Weekend – i.e. THE coldest night we have ever spent in a summer tent with no heating!
It was pretty cold and very misty. You could see only 50 meters on the roads and it remained that way, pretty much, all day. Our destination was…
The Dutch kitchen is quite simple: hearty “stamppots” [mash and stew] in Winter and raw herring in Summer. Cheese, on the other hand, is available all year round.…
How crazy do you have to be, to drive 250 kilometers for a few hours of off-roading? Well, if you own a Land Rover (especially in Holland), you’ll…
You’ve seen the photos right? Of people dressed up in long black dresses and funny white bonnets that curve up at the ears? Or holding baskets of tulips…
Could it be true? One more day of warm, golden sunshine? Walking to the bus stop, we’re hopeful, in our summer-to-autumn layers. It’s an early start to get…
With Marcel’s heavy workload our weekend camping plans went astray, so we were planning a quiet weekend at home. “Nothing of the sort!” thought Rob and Diana who…
Just how far would you be able to drag a (fairly) basic Land Rover into the Croatian bush?
The final day of the Croatia Trophy! And an excellent roadbook that has it all – riverbeds, steep winchpoints and very fast logging tracks
OUR FIRST FINISH!! A very long 75 km roadbook today, but everyone is getting their groove now. Good navigation and some challenging winch points
Team Trophy day is great fun for the spectators – the action is very close, especially the spattering mud, winching and hard revving engines…
Our baptism of fire as the competition gets off to a challenging start! A long and confusing roadbook and the scene of the infamous ‘Carwash’!
The adrenaline level is high. The start signal goes off. I gas it… Some kamikaze runs at the hill… but eventually the winch is deployed
Staro Selo – setting up camp, checking the car (again) and the most difficult of all – calibrating the Terratrip!
Orawa 4×4 Challenge is a very technical offroading competition, consisting mostly of steep gulleys that the contestants need to winch themselves through.
Italy rules the world when it comes to exquisite styling and taste. Even in 30-plus degrees of summer sun, Italians are perfectly coiffured.
Remembering how we’d slide down homemade “foofy” slides (ziplines) in South Africa as kids, I reckon this one should be a blast. Sitting at 1500 metres, however, it…
Each year hundreds of 4×4’s descend onto an open field during the “Pinksteren” [Pentecost] holiday weekend. The reason?
2 am sees us pulling into the driveway of our rental home somewhere deep in the Polish countryside. We are absolutely shattered by our 21-hour journey…
A very long roadbook and a dramatic river finish is the setting for the finale of a great week of competiton and cameraderie in the mud!
“Hamburger Hill” – one of the most exhausting days of 2010. Extremely tough (fresh-concrete) mud and a huge winch challenge up a steep gulley
Snapped ropes and broken winch motors. Very rough going at the steep creek and river bed. A lot of mud and extremely difficult.
A waist-high muddy bog stood in the way of everyone on stage 5 of the Croatia Trophy 2010. Creative winching required – and don’t mind the snake
During the Night Stage the front diff has come off and the bolts holding on the crown wheel have all sheared off. The whole thing has to come…
The start is from eleven pm. Being in the last place due to a non-start in the Team Trophy, we are last to start at about 00h30. It…
Today was double-edged. We couldn’t take part in the Team Trophy because of the technical problems from yesterday, but have managed to sort them all out and can…
We had a relatively good start and caught some competitors early due to some good driving in some of the testing areas. Navigation is difficult at times but…
Following the last-minute prep on the car, we start in the third group and have quite an eventful first porlogue stage…
Final checks on the Land Rover Discovery (kindly sponsored by Land Rover Centre Jacob Schaap) and we hit the road by 09:30. Slow going at 90 km/hr, but all went smoothly.
So she’s flown a plane (well we can tick that one off), scuba dived (got that one pretty much sorted), she’s jumped out of a perfectly good aeroplane before…
I spent a couple of days in the water off the beach at the Catalonia Royal Bavaro resort. Which is pretty normal. I mean what would you do amongst the palm trees and perfect beaches?
Since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to go to the Caribbean. Perhaps inspired by the Bacardi ads or James Bond movies from childhood?
The sound and power of the water drew me in like a magnet. We just HAD to include it in our travel plan.
Driving Miss Daisy – watch out here I come. Rob Mieras is a 4×4 driving instructor and has the patience of Job when it comes to teaching new…