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Eight for the Arctic
We’re still on a high from the Snowstorm Rally. I mean seriously, what a trip it was. All the way to the Arctic and back, through the...

Ben Coombs
Mar 265 min read
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2025? It's Game on...
The road trip season has started early for us this year, with March's Snowstorm Rally, up to the Arctic Circle. But while on that...

Ben Coombs
Mar 193 min read
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Back From the Arctic
How's your March been so far? Here at Pub2Pub, it's been pretty epic. Now, we'd normally be the first to agree that the word 'epic'...

Ben Coombs
Mar 171 min read
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A December Update...
It's definitely winter now. The shortest day is just around the corner. And beyond that, Christmas awaits. Then it's a mere week until...

Ben Coombs
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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The Normandy Classic - Seven of the Best
Last September, we hit the road on the Brittany Steers and in doing so, we got rolling with a new style of trip – the relaxed driving...

Ben Coombs
Nov 20, 20243 min read
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The Verdict...
We've run six driving tours this year, and they've all gone down pretty well, if we say so ourselves. But we would say that, wouldn't we?...

Ben Coombs
Nov 13, 20242 min read
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2025- Some Dates for your Diary...
It's definitely autumn now. The leaves are on the ground, the clocks are about to go back, and the rain seems incessant. Time to hunker...

Ben Coombs
Oct 26, 20243 min read
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Seven Drives in the Sun...
So, 2025. Let's make it Pub2Pub's biggest year yet. Over the summer, we've released some details of what we're planning for next year. ...

Ben Coombs
Sep 26, 20244 min read
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Welcome to Scotland! Here's Pubfall...
We've been saying it for years. We really should organise a yearly end of season get together, for everyone who's been part of the...

Ben Coombs
Aug 2, 20243 min read
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2025 - The Story So Far...
It's still July in the good year '24, so it may seem a little pre-emptive to be talking about next year already. However it pays to be...

Ben Coombs
Jul 26, 20244 min read
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Northern Highlights
Yesterday, we revealed our plans for a very different kind of driving tour – a trip to the Arctic Circle, in winter, which you can read...

Ben Coombs
Jul 21, 20245 min read
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Anyone for the Arctic?
Who’s up for kicking off 2025 with a real adventure? For instance, how about getting hold of a cheap old Saab, Volvo or other suitable...

Ben Coombs
Jul 20, 20244 min read
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Pub2Pub's Driving Tours - All the answers...
If you're on this website, you’ve probably seen or heard us talking about the Pub2Pub driving tours. Perhaps you’ve seen the pictures...

Ben Coombs
Jun 26, 20246 min read
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Pub2Pub's Midsummer Update
You know how it is. The new year comes around, you knuckle down, get on with this and that and, before you know it, it's June. That's...

Ben Coombs
Jun 20, 20243 min read
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The Brittany Steers - Seven of the Best...
When we start work on designing a new road trip, a fully-formed plan doesn’t simply leap into existence. No, due to the amount of...

Ben Coombs
Mar 31, 20244 min read
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New for '24 - it's the Brittany Steers.
Well folks, with our Mini-based adventures in South America now receding into the past, it's time to look forward once again -...

Ben Coombs
Mar 21, 20243 min read
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The Highest Car in the World...
Greetings from Plymouth, Devon. We're now back at the desk, in front of the computer, working away on the road trips we've got planned...

Ben Coombs
Feb 6, 20242 min read
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Mini6000 is go... and so is the Pub2Pub YouTube channel
If you follow Pub2Pub on social media, this may be old news for you, but right now, we're back on the road for the follow-up to our...

Ben Coombs
Dec 15, 20231 min read
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On the Road Again...
Greetings from South America! If you've been following the Pub2Pub social media, you'll know we're back on the road on the latest one of...

Ben Coombs
Dec 6, 20231 min read
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Chateau Pub2Pub is go!
Since we ran our first chateau trip back in 2022, the yearly pilgrimage to a magnificent house in the French countryside has become a...

Ben Coombs
Nov 2, 20231 min read
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Moving Forwards. A sitrep, and our plans for 2024
Here at Pub2Pub, 2023 has been quite a year. Our biggest year ever, in fact. Compared to 2022 we've gone from running three trips a...

Ben Coombs
Sep 27, 20235 min read
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Fourth Time's a Charm...
And then, just like that, our 2023 trips were complete. Last Sunday, we returned from this year's Eagle Rally, which was our last tour of...

Ben Coombs
Sep 27, 20231 min read
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Over the Alps to Italy...
So, it's late June and you've just got back from the French Revolution, a pretty full-on lap of some of the best driving roads France has...

Ben Coombs
Aug 2, 20231 min read
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Talkin' about a Revolution...
Here at Pub2Pub, if May was all about our trip to a French Chateau, then June's entertainment was equally dominated by the land of wine...

Ben Coombs
Jul 27, 20231 min read
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An Entente Cordiale - the Chateau TVR Trip
Some things just go together well, like they were always meant to be. Think James Bond and Aston Martin. Or fish and chips. Or maybe...

Ben Coombs
Jul 11, 20232 min read
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...and then, suddenly, it's summer...
Hi, followers of Pub2Pub. We have an apology to make - it concerns the lack of new posts on here over the past few months. But, we also...

Ben Coombs
Jun 28, 20232 min read
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The future's bright...
What's taken two years, thousands of pounds, many grazed knuckles, a supercharger and four litres of bright orange paint to complete? ...

Ben Coombs
Mar 22, 20231 min read
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Pub2Pub's Winter Update
Well folks, we're now a month and a half into 2023, which means its high time for an update on how things are going here at Pub2Pub HQ. ...

Ben Coombs
Feb 15, 20232 min read
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New for 2023 - it's Chateau TVR
This week, we've been able to finalise our fourth tour of 2023 - Chateau TVR. This trip will take place between the 13th and 19th May,...

Ben Coombs
Nov 25, 20221 min read
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Drives on the Horizon - our Plans for 2023
When it comes to our guided European trips, 2022 was our best year yet. We had the inaugural Beer Italia trip, which proved to be a...

Ben Coombs
Nov 3, 20223 min read
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From the Cameras of the Beer Italia
A few weeks ago, we ran a brief into into the Chimaera Jubilee, our first post-Covid trip. Well, the Jubilee wasn't the only trip we've...

Ben Coombs
Sep 13, 20221 min read
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Memories from the Chateau - The Chimaera Jubilee
In our last blog post, before 2022's glorious, post-Covid relaunch of our guided road trips, we were getting all excited about the fact...

Ben Coombs
Aug 22, 20221 min read
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We Have a Chateau! Chimaera Jubilee Update
Hi folks, it's now a couple of months since we unveiled our plan to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the TVR Chimaera - and the 75th...

Ben Coombs
Nov 24, 20215 min read
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Eye eye - It's the Barnard Castle Memorial Run!
Over the past few months, we’ve been mulling over the question of what form our first ever UK run should take. We came up with the basic...

Ben Coombs
Nov 11, 20214 min read
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Ciao! It's the Beer Italia Itinerary...
You've probably heard of the Beer Italia - that glorious galivant to the supercar factories of Italy which we were all set to launch in...

Ben Coombs
Oct 19, 20215 min read
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A Fiesta in Fibreglass* - The Chimaera Jubilee
*Disclaimer - don't worry, this post has nothing to do with rebodying Ford Fiestas in fibreglass. So, do please read on... In the last...

Ben Coombs
Sep 24, 20213 min read
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Third Time Lucky...
Have you ever suffered from deja-vu, that feeling that somehow, you've experienced it all before? We have. In fact, we're going through...

Ben Coombs
Aug 31, 20213 min read
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Ten years in a TVR, Fifteen on the Road
This week calls for a bit of a celebration, as not only does it mark the release of my latest book - The Road to the East - but it also...

Ben Coombs
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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Pub2Pub's Spring Update
A new book, a change of dates and a Mini called Daisy - just because we're grounded by the pandemic, it doesn't mean we've not been...

Ben Coombs
Apr 12, 20213 min read
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Pub2Pub and the Pandemic
Happy New Year folks! And with apologies to cheesy '90s supergroup D-Ream, remember - things can only get better... So, what did 2020...

Ben Coombs
Jan 6, 20216 min read
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The Eagle Rally - 2019 Edition
I changed down a gear as the tunnel beckoned, intent on enjoying the mellifluous drama of my TVR Chimaera’s V8. Flooring it, the roar...

Ben Coombs
Oct 28, 20205 min read
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News - The Return of Kermit
It all began so naively, back in February. I set about giving the TVR a quick going-over to prepare it for the year's coming road trips,...

Ben Coombs
Oct 20, 20203 min read
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Why you need to drive the Arctic Highway
Okay, so times aren't ideal for road tripping right now, but if 2020 has shown us anything, it's that things can always change, and as a...

Ben Coombs
Oct 6, 20201 min read
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The 84 Hours of Le Mans
This weekend sees the first ever socially distant running of the Le Mans 24 hour race. To mark the occasion, we're taking a look back to...

Ben Coombs
Sep 19, 20205 min read
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Great Drives 05 - The Snow Cruiser
Does a drive actually have to be successful to qualify as great? Or, if a journey is attempted with sufficient panache, can a failure...

Ben Coombs
Sep 7, 20203 min read
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News - The 2020 Effect
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that...

Ben Coombs
Aug 17, 20203 min read
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The Slovenian Job
That time we bought a Renault 4 in Slovenia and took it on a road trip back to the UK...

Ben Coombs
Aug 6, 20207 min read
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The Power of Four
It was a simple idea. Visit four different racetracks, in four different countries, in four days. Our steed? The world's foremost...

Ben Coombs
Jul 30, 20205 min read
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The Art of Overlanding 03 - Five Quick Hits
A quick overlanding hit? Surely that's an oxymoron? After all, overlanding is all about covering the big distances which are required...

Ben Coombs
Jul 29, 20206 min read
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Great Drives 04 - The South Pole. By Tractor.
Here at Planet Pub2Pub, we like to push the boundaries of what it's possible to achieve with apparently unsuitable vehicles. Our idea of...

Ben Coombs
Jul 28, 20204 min read
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