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This section covers all the Ws: who, where, why, what, when, and, erm, how.
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142 FROM AUTOSTRADA TO ULTRAS...
What better way to spend an afternoon on a rally across Europe than at an, erm, football match?! As part of the route we visit Menaggio...
May 13, 20252 min read
141 COLIN FOR SUPPORT...
I almost found the perfect support vehicle for our epic jaunt across Europe next year. I stumbled across this cracking-looking...
May 11, 20252 min read
140 RELATIVELY PAINLESS...
The little car has been taken to the garage to receive a bit of TLC from the professionals. The metallic rubbing noise has been...
Apr 9, 20252 min read
139 HEAVY METAL GRINDING...
After initially thinking my new alloy woes were far behind me, a new and annoying issue turned up. I was merrily bombing it around in...
Apr 2, 20252 min read
138 WELL BALANCED...
The lovely guys at Liverpool Mobile Tyres have just been out to balance my front wheels. As they had the Abarth jacked up, they said...
Mar 29, 20251 min read
137 WHEELIE SAYING SOMETHING…
People who have followed this little blog for a while will know that Lisa got me a set of upgraded alloy wheels for Christmas this year...
Mar 24, 20252 min read
136 THIS IS A HOLD UP…
With a heavy heart, I must announce that our jaunt across Europe has been put on hold until next year. There are many reasons, but...
Mar 15, 20252 min read
135 THE GREAT EUROPEAN PETROL PUZZLE...
I'm worried that Abbie will develop multiple personality disorders during our upcoming European road trip, as she must respond to six...
Feb 11, 20252 min read
134 LOVE ONE+
A friend paid me back a few quid he owed me that I had completely forgotten about, so I did the only sensible thing I could: I bought...
Feb 9, 20252 min read
133 IT'S IN THE CAN...
All this talk of jacks and tyre swapping has reminded me that the foam that comes with my car is well past its sell-by date, so I needed...
Feb 8, 20251 min read
132 J-JACK J-JACK J-JACK YOUR (CAR) BODY (UP)…
In my relentless pursuit of “wasting money or crap I don’t need” (© Lisa 2025), I’ve been looking at car jacks. I’m not sure my car...
Feb 6, 20251 min read
131 THE GREAT BRITISH INNUENDO TOUR: A JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAIN'S MOST AWKWARDLY NAMED PLACES...
I may have stumbled across our next road trip. Hot on the heels of our plan to race across Britain to prove the Abarths are quicker than...
Jan 26, 20252 min read
130 LEONARDO DI (F)AI(L)…
Remember I was saying that I might need to cut AI some slack after Leonardo, the image-creating website, took my prompt, embellished it,...
Jan 24, 20252 min read
129 LEONARDO DI AI…
I'm still struggling to come up with content for this little corner of the Internet because of stuff happening in the real world, but as...
Jan 23, 20252 min read
128 BIT OF A GROK...
I write these stupid little posts when the muse takes me. So often, I knock out four, five, or six articles in one session and then sit...
Jan 22, 20252 min read
127 FINE...
There is no suggestion that we will speed up when completing the rally. Still, it is better to be prepared, so I researched how much the...
Jan 21, 20252 min read
126 THE CAR WHISPERER...
I bought Abbie in the autumn when the weather was changeable - it didn't know whether it would be warm, cold, sunny, or rainy. Because...
Jan 20, 20252 min read
125 COLOUR CODING IDENTITY CRISIS...
In the previous post , I discussed the different sign colours across Europe. The takeaway is that countries flip-flop between blue and...
Jan 19, 20252 min read
124 A COLOURFUL GUIDE TO GETTING LOST...
In the second in the series of 'Weird Stuff The Europeans Do To Their Road Signs' - I know, riveting, right? - we learn that not only do...
Jan 18, 20252 min read
123 SCALE AWAY, SCALE AWAY, SCALE AWAY...
If I change the car's scheme to the new, fresher Martini Racing or the Castrol Oil one , I will be copying Scalextric vehicles rather...
Jan 17, 20251 min read
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