Trans-Europe Express (Delivery) – Part Two
You’ll find plenty of motoring journalists who are real professors of this subject. They love to get under the bonnet and tinker with the oily bits or thoroughly go through testing procedures point by point. Honestly, I admire them for being so richly invested in the subject matter but if somebody tried to make me […]
Trans Europe Express (Delivery) – Part One
If you’ve ever met me before 8am – and some of you have – you’d probably have all manner of descriptive terms by which to describe me, but “grumpy” is a word that I suspect the majority of you would use. It’s 4am on an industrial park in Reading and my new business is on […]
Austria
When planning a road trip through Germany and Austria (as well as the Czech Republic and Poland), I knew I’d be silly to miss out on driving some amazing Alpine roads. Choosing which roads to drive along the length of the country was difficult because most of the highways slice straight through the mountain and […]
My first drive in Europe (and why I’m still annoyed about it)
One of my best friends is called Audrey. Audrey is French and being French, it won’t surprise to you to learn that she lives in a place called Paris – a tourist resort famous for its massive spiky tower and numerous art warehouses. Around 8-9 years ago I decided I ought to pop across the […]
Car Fetish: I drive therefore I am
Exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel celebrates auto-obsession…