Thank you for visiting our web site.

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 in 2007 to the most recent and planned ones in the future. 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.

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

Well, the White Nights has finished and we’re home for a while and our next one is spring 2024. Organised by Adrian Epps (who took us from Venice to Monaco), his new company, Latitude 71, is starting small and we will be driving from Sotogrande, near Gibraltar, in Spain to Marrakech and beyond in Morocco and back to finish in Tangiers. From there we’ll make our way to Estepona and eventually back home.

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: