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This site was created to let friends and family follow our progress on the 2007 PEKING TO PARIS MOTOR CHALLENGE. We then decided to enlarge it to include our other adventures in our wonderful old TALBOT motor car.

Click on the BLOG button at the top to read about any of our rallies in chronological order from the PEKING TO PARIS (scroll all the way down to the bottom) in 2007 to the most recent and planned ones in the future (at the top). There are also buttons to provide a bit more background to us, the car(s) and lots of other stuff.

As each new event is added, we will create a page for it under “Blogs”. As a new event unfolds, new postings will appear at the top and older ones gradually slide down to the bottom. After an event has finished, all the posts will be re-arranged to form a sort of day by day diary in chronological order. In other words, all the old events’ postings begin at the beginning. I hope this makes sense. There is also a good chance that more photos and videos will be added when I have more time to do them.

Since 2007 there have been lots of other local events around Ireland but they can’t really be described as “adventures”.

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Over a couple of weeks around the Christmas / New Year holidays at the end of 2024 we’ve been talking about “Where to next, what’s up for 2025?” There have been very few events that jumped off the screen and shouted at us – “Haven’t done that before” or “Haven’t been there before” or better yet “you’ll have to come and drive here”.

There were a couple we sort of half heartedly considered and while they haven’t been totally discarded they are definitely on the long finger. We haven’t really done any long distance or endurance events for a while so we drew up a list of where we hadn’t visited and began a bit of a search and came up with a longish short list (if that makes sense) like this:

USA (Yosemite, Death Valley, Route 66, that sort of thing); Transylvania is a possibility; India or the Himalayas – there are three options for there, one in the mountains, the other across India and the final one around Rajastan; Vietnam; The Great Ocean Road, Victoria – Australia; Central America (Honduras, Guatamala, Costa Rica, Panama & Nicaragua – a few options here); Georgia – I’d love to do this but Mr Putin isn’t helping; Bohemia (Czechia & Poland) or finally Kalahari / Namibia.

What do you think? Some of these could be driven in the Talbot, others in the MGB (if we ever get it running) and some will have to be in 4X4s. We’ve made enquiries about one of them………

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We hope you enjoy reading our ramblings and if you have any comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to drop us an email.

Many times we’ve been asked “What’s it like in Mongolia?” and our stock answer is something like “So huge we don’t have enough words that are big enough”. Back in 2007 we didn’t have the photographic or video kit we have now. Even the professionally produced videos of the 1997 and 2007 events don’t really do it justice. I appreciate it is a cliché but in Douglas Adams’ famous radio serial “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” the ‘book’ describes space as “Big, really big” so at least we aren’t the only ones with this problem.What am I chattering on about I hear you ask. I recently came across a blog of a couple who are riding their motorcycles around the world and their section on Mongolia makes a pretty good effort. The charming little video below says it all but without words. It is one of the very few places in the world I would go back to in an instant: