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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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Our last outing in Rajasthan was quite an experience – a full blown sensory overload and certainly not for the faint-hearted to drive. That said, it was really great fun with a super bunch of like-minded nomads who weren’t afraid to “have a go”. It didn’t take too long for us to settle into the Karma lifestyle and pretty quickly we stopped stressing over the behaviour on the roads in India and gave up on any aggressive actions towards other road users; indeed, I am now much more forgiving towards idiots on the road here at home. Would I recommend driving there – undoubtedly YES!

Moving on; the MGB is running properly at last and the last few little snags are being attended to so we should be able to take it out for some shortish familiarisation trips here at home. If everything works, nothing drops off and we like it then maybe a trip to Spin in the Spring – who knows.

I have also done a deal and bought a V8 Rover. A nice, comfortable cruising car with plenty of space and “go”. We haven’t collected it yet from England but a couple of minor faults are being attended to before we fly over and bring it home. On the back of this Penny has suggested a trip to Croatia and Slovenia in May 2027 with Classic Travelling, our hosts in Namibia in 2025. Worth looking at!

I know we’ve covered a bit of this territory before in 2017 but were rushed through very quickly so didn’t honestly have a chance to see or experience anything at all.

Apart from that, the only thing we have on the horizon is Botswana next November with the same group as above. I know it looks like less driving but the distances involved are huge and there aren’t that many centres of population!

We are always open to suggestions for places to visit and explore so don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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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: