Videos

Here are all the videos that we’ve posted on our various blogs. Not many back in the early days.

These are a few of the out-takes that the professional video crew didn’t use for the television show or the official DVD. Note that the colour is a bit funny – the Talbot was and always has been blue.

Before the start of the Icelandic Saga we went to see their local form of motorsport. We have done a few trials at home but nothing like this! Special space-frame chassis, big American V8s, superchargers and nitrous injection!

A lovely slide show by the official photographer, Gerard Brown.

This is another slide show by Gerard Brown. A 1000 mile travelling house party with some very mild competition thrown in.

Video by the official event photographers.

This is a Japanese enthusiast’s home video of the rally arriving at a control inside a heritage centre.

Here’s a bit of video of what the organisers have been up to for the last few years

In this video you can click and drag the picture to see all around – a full 360 degrees.

On our way to the Vintage Portugal we had a lovely little tour of our own.

A super valley road in northern Spain, Asturias

Noisy little birds in the evening, just outside our bedroom window in Spain

Looks like St Marks in Venice but no, this is Salamanca in Spain.

We couldn’t believe how quiet a (largish) town centre could be on a Saturday night. We were the last to leave the restaurant at half past nine and the main street is deserted.

In the superb “Steam Punk” museum there was this art installation

Samurai Talbot – left the handbrake on during a regularity.

Samurai Talbot – lovely placid morning.

Samurai Talbot being sent on her way by a Galician Piper.

Samurai Talbot in Spanish Mountains – 1

Samurai Talbot in Spanish Mountains – 2

Samurai Talbot on a Spanish Speed Test – 3

Samurai Talbot arriving in Segovia – 4

Samurai Talbot in Spanish Mountains – 5

Samurai Talbot and Folk Dancing in Pueblo Sanabria – 6

Samurai Talbot and some lucky timing

Samurai Talbot and some Roman Roads.

Samurai Talbot and some regularity hazards – 7

Samurai Talbot driving through the Desfiladero de la Hermida in the Picos de Europa – 8

Samurai Talbot and some Bilbao Street Life

Samurai Talbot and a wonderful period restaurant

Samurai Talbot on the Circuito de Catalunya

The first day of the rally and we crossed Öresundsbron or the Oresund Bridge from Denmark to Sweden. A very impressive bit of civil engineering but for fans of Scandi Noir on TV, this is the scene at the start of a famous series “The Bridge” or Bron / Broen in Swedish / Danish. Just at 2min 38sec, we pass the international boundary where the victim was found to start the mystery.

Our encounter with a Moose called Oskar.

We used the Hurtigruten ferries quite a bit in Norway. Sort of a mobile B&B. We boarded in the evening, had dinner and slept then set off the next morning from a different port to drive to another evening rendezvous with the ship. A very good service but not the usual “roll on – roll off” we’re used to. The garage can really only accommodate about twenty cars and this shows the process.