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A daily record of the plans made and the decisions taken. 
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So for the time being, ARMCOB is closed. Thank you to everyone who popped by, had a mooch around, left a comment, or shared a link to our pokey little corner of the internet. If you have just stumbled across our site, then welcome! The Blog was the most up-to-date part of the site. It covered everything from selecting a car, getting it roadworthy and liveried up, to the endless travel arrangements, including selecting hotels after a skinful of ale, and daily reports from E

Now that we have completed the rally, the JustGiving link has closed, and there are (currently) no plans to repeat the trip next year, I think it is time to do some admin on the site, changing it from a journal of what we planned to do into an archive of what we did. My head says I should take a copy of the whole site and then turn it off, but my heart says we have worked too hard and put too much into it to take it down. Heart wins, right? Who knows, it might give someone t

It has been a minute since I've done any website maintenance. There are lots of little changes that need to be made. Tiny things like updating the copyright year to 2026, all the way up to removing the Fauxrrari Abarth from the VEHICLES section (boo!), but adding Team: Daisy Racing (yay!) I've also got geeky and adjusted the spacing on the VEHICLES and ROUTE sections so they fit better. I've also expanded the opening post on the WELCOME page to confirm that the cars hav

Now that we are officially participants in the 2026 Black Forest Gateau Bust Rallies event, I have a renewed vigour for the whole daft...

I've made a QR code for this website. It may seem a bit pointless to you reading this as you are, well, here, but it will be good to put...

When I started this website, I freely admitted that I didn't have a clue about what I was doing. This led to me making many mistakes,...

Since we agreed to do this, I've been arguing with Carl, reiterating that it is a rally, not a race, whenever he tells me that he will...

I had a productive day yesterday. I got home to find that a headlight bulb had gone, instantly sending me into a spiral. I worried that...

A friend at work recently went around Slovenia, which looked amazing. She put on loads of pictures and illustrated where she had...

Over the last few weeks, I have made many changes to the website. I thought it would be a good time to document them, more for my own benefit than anything else, but someone out there may be interested. Design: * The Racing font is now used for the ABARTH RACING wording on the main header. * The Racing font is now used for the titles in the section headers. * All the page headers are now all the same size * The page header images are now at 50% transparency, as it looks bett

If you are reading this, I've managed to cobble together a little website for our European adventure in 2025. Last night, I started...