A Simply Fab Life
You may see a tired old wreck. I see a shivering bonnet beating a rhythmic tune to the tired, sluggish, loudly bellowing old engine straining to clamber up a narrow pass heading away from the Corsican coastline.
Everyone has heard of or perhaps seen, the old classic car rallies. This rally was in the spirit of that most famous road rally of the 1950s
The grandest celebration of motorsport, from its crude and rudimentary beginnings to advanced future concepts spanning the globe.
The boat is small enough to feel every bump and swell and sometimes launches out of the water to smack down with a thump only to shoot forward again as the propeller digs in hard.
Camping is our favourite form of relaxation and our Land Rover, Dakota, is fabulous for this. But it might be a little tight for daily living.
Manyane campsite offers the perfect jump-off point to explore Pilanesberg Game Reserve
The International War Museum at Duxford looks just magical in winter. This place is BIG, so you will be doing some mileage. To cover it all you will need to crunch through the snow for the length of the runway.
Let’s kick this off with the most obvious – the fact that you can recognise them anywhere…
On our extended road trip around Europe the greatest challenge has always been keeping the truck tidy, along with keeping the beers chilled and trying not to lose the firelighters.
Camping out of season has its advantages, notably having the place to yourself. Except for when the local shepherds invade the campsite with a flock of woolly ruminants.
The Best Campsite in Western Europe?
Searching for Sagres on the most (south) westerly point in Europe
Portugal has been calling for a long time and we finally leave the coast and head inland…
We end up on a building site as we eye out the frontier with Portugal, but are ultimately seduced by the glorious beach…
After a lovely (olivey) change of pace in the mountains it is back towards the coast – and a cold reception
A side of Motril probably never seen. A rocky outcrop. And millions of olive trees…
Just when you think you’ve seen some pretty incredible European scenery that can’t possibly get more dramatic, nature comes along and says: hold my beer
Six hundred pitches and none to spare even at this time of year? That is a LOT of campervans. We go undercover to investigate…
Between Valencia and Alicante lies the sleepy (at this time of year) village of Xeraco near Gandia. And a quirky little campsite. What does it have to offer?
This one is a pretty cool campsite with direct access to a really, really nice beach. Pitch space is limited, but…
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – V. Lombardi. And Porsche has done precisely that with the 911.
Our ultimate goal for today is Burgos. That’s about halfway through Spain if you take a straight line from the northernmost point of the border between France and Spain towards Porto in Portugal.