Going touring in a Mini, obviously
In which Teal, the Mini, is prepared for a mighty journey to Orkney, the Hebrides, Mull and back.
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Category: Driving
The Bothy McWeevil Thistle Garden Challenge
Tourist farming is an important economic activity in many of the communities we will be visiting on this journey. In recognition that you sometimes have to make the best of the hand that life has dealt to you, the Bothy McWeevil Thistle Garden Awards
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Thistle Map
Unusually for us, we have planned every night, every route and every ferry crossing before leaving. But we are confident that the Bothy McWeevil Thistle Garden Challenge will add surprises and delights every day…
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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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Kindness and Ingenuity – A Round-Up
This has turned out to be a most effective theme for the tour. To remind you of the nominations, which had to be both Kind and Ingenious:
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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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Day 27 From Essen, via the Zollverein museum and Hoek van Holland to Bishop’s Stortford
In which Sid and Doris visit a huge industrial complex and make for the ferry without touching Holland.
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Day 26 From Bonn to Essen
In which Sid and Doris visit the Museum of the History of the Federal Republic and go to a Ruhr city.
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Day 25 From Boppard, onto the river ferry, and so to Bonn
In which Hermann takes Sid and Doris on the river ferry and then on to A Small Town in Germany.
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