Coronavirus. This year we were scheduled to join a touring group in North Wales. It was organised by Ian Glass, the chap who originally found our Talbot and based around Portmeirion but sadly this has been postponed until next year. In September we were also supposed to be doing another 1000 mile rally around Ireland (see Turas Mile Mile in 2014) but yet again, this … Continue reading 2020 – Where Next?

Varavepu Welcome in Tamil Sadarayen Piliganimu or in Sinhalese Quite a while ago we received the brochure about this event and Sri Lanka has always been on our list of “must do” places so there wasn’t really much debate. Since then there has been some domestic strife in this country. Not the twenty odd years of civl war but since then with a religious mass … Continue reading 2020 – Sri Lanka

Below are a few videos that I couldn’t process or upload in Madagascar. They aren’t in any particular order and some of them are quite interesting when you look closely at the road(?) conditions. 5th June 2019 In June 2019 we are embarking on something a bit more different, a 4X4 tour of “The Land that Time Forgot” or MADAGASCAR. More details to follow soon! … Continue reading 2019 – Magical Madagascar

Purely a touring event this time, but we’ll be covering quite a bit of both North and South Islands in New Zealand.. KIA ORA Welcome in Maori In February 2019 we will be going with a bunch of other “Talboteers” for a sort of figure of eight tour of North and South Islands of New Zealand. That’s how this trip got it’s name: 25th January … Continue reading 2019 – New Zealand TAT (Talbot Antipodean Tour)

In August we’re off to Portugal. As I explained on the home page, Maria and José Romao de Sousa are organising a tour for a select few friends and we are flattered to have been included in this very special group. It is a small groupof just 15 cars and we have met and made friends with several of them on other rallys around the … Continue reading 2018 Vintage Portugal

Normally we can only do one long rally abroad each year. They’re expensive and take a lot of time to organise and prepare for but when we saw this, I think we both looked at each other at the same time and said something like “That looks interesting”. This isn’t a rally, more a tour; or for my sailing chums, a cruise in company. Starting … Continue reading 2017 – Venice to Monaco

Yokoso That’s Japanese for welcome.Many thanks to Akira Mimura for correcting my very poor Japanese spelling. When we were looking around for things to do in 2017, this one jumped straight out at us. JAPAN – who wouldn’t want to rally there? OK. We’re entered on the “Samurai Challenge”. A 22 day regularity road rally from Fukuoka in the south of Japan to Lake Toya … Continue reading 2017 – Samurai Challenge

A couple of years ago we were rather restricted because Penny had her knee replaced. Because it is quite tortuous getting into and out of old cars, this rather curtailed our trips. Anyway, in 2015 we decided, after having a chat with her surgeon, and because she was feeling so confident, that things were good so we hunted around for something to do. There was … Continue reading 2015 – Sierra Nevada Classic

I apologise but we really don’t have any photographs taken on this week-long rally around Ireland. We’ve done lots of long weekend events with the Wolseley Car Club of Ireland and every now and again they also organise a full 1000 mile trial all the way around Ireland. Being “Irish”, this event is, shall we say, a bit more relaxed in the competition department. I … Continue reading 2014 – Turas Mile Mile

Have a look at the video on YouTube. It’s a wee, ten minute overview of the event. There is a longer one and when I’ve found it, I’ll put a link on for that too. There’s one scene at about 1min 40sec where we’re cheered through a village; another when we arrive at a wet control at 4min 55sec; us in the middle of a … Continue reading 2014 – The RAC 1000 Mile Trial