Travels in vintage vehicles

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  • With less than a week to go we’re closing things down as we prepare to leave for six months travelling in the van. For me one long standing item that I’ve been looking forward to is the Vesta Vets Head of the River race – it’s a fast 6.8K as we ride the outbound ebb…

    Read more: Rock the boat

  • It’s two weeks till we go and time seems to have speeded up.  Most of the domestic things we must do before we go are done. The van is in better shape than she’s been for a long while. While work is manic for both of us, the number of days left now in single…

    Read more: Tardis Time!

  • We’ve only gone and done it! We’ve actually booked a ticket on le shuttle – so officially we are off to France on the morning of Saturday 30th March. After the last few weeks of near constant rain and floods it feels good to be able to focus on something else as the rain has…

    Read more: Booked!

  • We are in the final few weeks of preparation before we head off for Baku. Most of the van related jobs are done and we have sourced pretty much every seal available and we should be well placed to strip most things down in the event that something fails. Failure is as sure as death…

    Read more: Jumping Hurdles

  • If time travel was a thing and we could wind the clock forward a couple of months to the end of March 2024 you would find us packing the van ready for our next big adventure. Baku. Baku and back. And maybe Baku and beyond and back. How far east we get will be subject…

    Read more: Time Travel