The first job after breakfast is cleaning the car. well, one does have standards, and then we drive to the scrutinering area to ensure the car is still safe to take part after its punishing drive from the UK. It is probably the drivers they should focus on rather than the car, as I am […]

Shortly after leaving Munich we have beautiful views of the Alps in front of us. They look daunting from inside a little mini. We cross the Alps through Austria. To use the motorways we have to attach a 9 euro vignette to the windscreen to avoid a fine from the police waiting for foreign cars […]

We decided not to wrestle all our items of luggage out of the mini last night, so we did not have it to wrestle them back this morning. I had decided it would be a brave thief to attempt it, and I was correct. Breakfast was taken overlooking the race track with cars circulating on […]

Early breakfast and then a short drive to Eurotunnel. We met up in the car park with old friends and new. Then, onto the queue for passport controls. Between the British and French passport controls our friends Steve and Wendy’s car, which was behind us, overheated, and had to be pushed through passport control. We […]

We are off to Folkestone this afternoon, ready for an early train through the chunnel in the morning. If you wonder what the large cardboard box is. It is an item for the charity auction donated by our friends Rick & Jan. Perhaps we should have thought through the logistics of getting it to Italy. […]