• Motor Valley, Italy Part I

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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

  • Hangar 10, Germany

    Hangar 10, Germany

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    A big part of why I had traveled to Germany’s Baltic Coast was to visit the small village of Zirchow. And the entire reason I wanted to visit the small village of Zirchow was to go to Hangar 10, a museum which houses a unique collection of rare aircraft.

  • Phaeton Museum of Technology, Ukraine

    Phaeton Museum of Technology, Ukraine

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    Although the war in no way effects me as acutely as it does the Ukrainians, an afternoon at the Phaeton Museum of Technology, Zaporizhia, was a great way to forget about the war for a while.

  • Driving the Nordschleife, Germany

    Driving the Nordschleife, Germany

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    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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