2020 Year In Review
Well, that was a funny old year, and it is easy to write it off as Death By A Thousand Cancellations.
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Author: Sid and Doris
The Shipping Forecast and the Geometry of the UK
Doris suddenly realises that the UK is not square, and it is not triangular.
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This’ll Not Be The Thistle
On the 2nd October this year we were due to set off driving the Mini to St Andrews to do the Highland Thistle, a classic car rally organised by our friends at Rally The Globe.
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Hermann’s Grand Tour Experience
We did realise as we set off that this would be a “vehicle dependent expedition“.
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Views on Touring in a Time of Covid
A post where we muse on what worked well and what didn’t.
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The Grand Tour In A Time of Covid
Sid and Doris have decided that now would be a good time to go to all the places that you wouldn’t usually dream of visiting in peak tourist season. Will Sid and Doris be the only people there, or has everyone else got the same idea? Watch this blog for details!
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Hermann Zer German
For the Grand Tour our car of choice is the mighty Hermann (full name: Hermann Zer German). He is a 1967 Mercedes SL250, known as Pagodas because of the hard top shape.
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The Dash to the Onion Patch
During the Covid Quarantine, the constant drip drip drip of cancelled events seems to have inspired our doughty duo to be creative…
Read moreInterview with Sid and Doris after Phase 1
Q: So the Epic Journey to Istanbul has delivered! What changes did you make as you went along? Doris: I think we became a little more fixated on Istanbul as a destination as we went on, and that straightened the route out and meant less sightseeing. We didn’t go to some bits of Bulgaria and Romania that we originally had…
Read moreRoute Review of Part 1
As we continue to crouch round the PC trying to plan Phase 2 with spreadsheets of road/climb distance, ferry timings, hotel availability, we are looking back to Phase 1 and what actually happened to the route. Two main things :1. We found that 100km a day and 1,000m of up was quite enough, and in fact shouldn’t be repeated day…
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