Tesla Can’t Get You There … and Jaguar?
4 February 2018 | Transport
▲ Me and a Tesla Model S – promoting Lonely Planet’s Epic Drives – in Wales. I don’t have a Tesla in my garage in Australia – if the Tesla Model S was just a little bit smaller I probably would have one, but it was a real squeeze fitting one in and I could see I’d hav...
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Ebao or E Bao or Ebuzhen, Qinghai Province in China
11 September 2017 | Places
It’s always interesting when your travels take you somewhere which doesn’t turn up on an internet search. In English at least, there’s probably lots to be said about Ebao (or E Bao or Ebuzhen) in Chinese.
We stopped for lunch in Ebao on Day 47 of my recent Silk Roa...
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Silk Road by MGB – Days 84 to 88 in Turkey
21 July 2017 | Places
My 103 day, Silk Road Odyssey from Bangkok to London in an old MGB is all over. ‘Burgundy,’ my 45-year-old car is safely in London and I’m looking for a new home for it, anyone want a well looked after English sports car? Comprehensively overhauled and then used for o...
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How to Land a Plane
20 July 2017 | Media
In Skyfaring - his 2015 best seller on the mystery and magic of flight - BA 747 pilot Mark Vanhoenacker told how he did it. Now in this 64-page addition to the Quercus series of ‘how to do it’ books he tells us how to do it ourselves. Land that is.
Taking off is no...
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Silk Road by MGB – Days 76 to 84 in Iran
3 July 2017 | Places
We’re through to Day 92, our last day in Asia, tomorrow we cross the Dardanelles, from Asian to European Turkey and then on into Bulgaria.
But more on Turkey shortly, meanwhile here’s a quick summary of Days 76 to 84 in Iran. Tashi was my co-driver on this stage an...
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