UK Ferry Tickets

I’ve always been confident that staying cool, calm and collected and having a basic understanding of the laws of the road is enough to ensure that you have a relaxed and enjoyable self drive holiday abroad. An experience at the weekend got me thinking though. Driving through a suburb of Newcastle I was pulled over [...]

The UK is undoubtedly a great place to come from. We have everything we could possibly need at our disposal here and many of us enjoy life on our separate little continent. However, the UK hardly prepares us for travelling abroad. For starters, the weather leaves a lot to be desired and you can almost [...]

The world’s first chocolate-powered vehicle is to travel from Britain to Timbuktu later this month. Two inventors, Andy Pag and John Grimshaw, will drive the route of over 4,500 miles using biodiesel fuel made with the waste from chocolate production. It will, with a bit of luck and a following wind, create the lowest possible [...]

There’s a commonly-held belief in the UK that European drivers are all mad and will cut you up as soon as look at you. I’ve never actually found that to be the case. Certainly, driving around France is a lot more pleasurable than trying to negotiate the roads of south London. Drivers seem a lot [...]

After two years of politics, cuddling up to the right people, presentations, reports and site visits, it all came down to a stirring speech from Lord Coe and that husky-voiced woman from M-People singing over a video showing David Beckham attempting a crossword. How marvellous it was for London to win the right to host [...]