• It’s Midnight and I’m Lost in Tunis

    Getting lost in a foreign city can be all part of the fun of travel. Or it can be quite the opposite.

  • Two Wheels to Tunisia

    Two Wheels to Tunisia

    After much consideration I decided that I’d buy a bike rather than hire for a trip to North Africa. With the planning done, it was time for two wheels to Tunisia

  • Motor Valley, Italy Part II

    Motor Valley, Italy Part II

    Modena was gloomy and drizzly as I made my way back to the Museo Enzo Ferrari. It was from there I would catch the shuttle bus to nearby Maranello for part two of my Prancing Horse experience: Museo Ferrari.

  • Motor Valley, Italy Part I

    The Emilia Romagna district in Northern Italy is home to a disproportionately large number of iconic car and motorcycle manufacturers. It was here in the Valley of Speed that Enzo Ferrari was born…

  • Inside the Trabant, Germany

    Inside the Trabant, Germany

    Whilst visiting Berlin’s Trabi Museum, I got the chance to sit inside the DDR’s little Duroplast battler.

  • Hangar 7, Austria

    Hangar 7, Austria

    When you make a zillion bucks flogging unhealthy energy drinks, you can do all kinds of expensive things, like fly historic aircraft. I went along to Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria, to check out where the money went.

  • Driving the Transfagarasan Road, Romania

    Driving the Transfagarasan Road, Romania

    Whilst researching places to visit in Romania, I came across photos of a spectacular winding road, snaking its way high up to a pass over the mighty Carpathian Mountains. It looked amazing and a blast to drive, so I put the Transfagarasan Road on the must-do list.

  • Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part II, France

    Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part II, France

    Below Calvi’s towering citadel walls, we descended beneath the waves to explore one of Corsica’s World War Two ghosts.

  • Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part I, France

    Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part I, France

    Just off the Corsican village of Miomo, a mystery of World War Two lies in twenty metres of water.

  • Podcast Episode 16. Driving the Nordschleife, Germany

    Podcast Episode 16. Driving the Nordschleife, Germany

    Armed with a completely inappropriate car, I embarked on a lap of one of world’s most feared and revered motor racing circuits

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