There is only one road which runs along the coast and down to Saigon, Highway 1. We were going to see the destruction the Americans had inflicted on the country with their bombing and their Agents Red, White and Orange but we were also going to see a nation of Read more…
We were a great curiosity to the Chinese and while waiting it was necessary to adjust to the Chinese way of doing things. The toilets were around the back of any low wall but in China there is always somebody peering at you, and somebody else had always been there Read more…
Encouraged by three months of escapism and the fascination of motoring successfully from London to Peking and then down to Hong Kong in 1990 we decided to take our Bentley S1 Continental, again overland, to the Far East but this time to Saigon. Where the 1990 motor challenge had its Read more…
The London to Mexico Rally was going to be severe by our standards of ‘continental’ motoring as we are not rallyists, but more so, we are not competitive rallyists, merely seeking a lengthy holiday of endless driving in foreign lands with a touch of adventure and the fascination of historic Read more…
Our 2017 Indian journey will try to discover the effect of 2 centuries on those regal palaces, temples & mosques painted by an Indian artist, Sita Ram.Lord Hastings set out from Barrackpore just west of Calcutta, on a 17 month journey to the Punjab accompanied by 10,000 men, 221 riverboats, Read more…
Going down to breakfast in the Sea Lounge Taj Palace Mumbai was now different without the Hallett’s to join us as they had done since October; their having flown home , and their car having been shipped we set off early on the 6th November for Pune 95 miles distant Read more…
You are not going to drive overland to Peking in THAT car are you? One only has to think of the damage done to OUR cars on the RR Australia rally. That was the sentiment of an RREC club member when we first set off in 1990 to drive overland from London Read more…