The great French getaway!

I know that my parents and my uncle Roy will all want to know the route of our travels around France, so I enclose a quick guided tour… on the basis that I can never remember the names of places when people ask me, as has already happened this morning!

The general idea was for [...]

Last weekend you trecked

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You may have gathered from my post earlier this week that we disappeared off to Holland last weekend to see our friends Adam [...]

Tyres in the snow

PLEASE can someone point out to the news agencies that the answer to their question, regarding the reason why we are apparently so unprepared for the current driving conditions, is TYRES and TRAINING.

Tyres

Scandinavian counties have snow & ice for a large proportion of each year so they have both summer tyres and [...]

What’s new on the drive this week?

If cars weren’t generally so quiet, more people would enjoy driving below the speed limit in built-up areas just to imbibe the sound! [...]

All mud and no running

I can tell you first hand that the streets of Kensington & Chelsea are cared for in a way that puts other councils to shame, with perfectly paved, level sidewalks, motorway standard tarmacking and regularly cleaned gutters. Outside of the garden squares and patio pots, mud does not feature widely. [...]

Dessert

After all the serious fun… there was a day of ice-karting! [...]

Nice ‘n icy

After another four-thirty alarm, I drove to Stansted in the pouring rain, left my car with a delighted parking attendant and checked in. And all before coffee, which I find remarkable. [...]

Sheet!

In the meantime, I thought you may be interested in my latest annual Swedish pilgrimage to worship at the alter named VCDA: The Volvo Cars Driving Academy. [...]