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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...

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...

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?...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Well folks, with our Mini-based adventures in South America now receding into the past, it's time to look forward once again -...

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...

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...

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...

Since we ran our first chateau trip back in 2022, the yearly pilgrimage to a magnificent house in the French countryside has become a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What's taken two years, thousands of pounds, many grazed knuckles, a supercharger and four litres of bright orange paint to complete? ...

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. ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

*Disclaimer - don't worry, this post has nothing to do with rebodying Ford Fiestas in fibreglass. So, do please read on... In the last...

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...

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...

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...

Happy New Year folks! And with apologies to cheesy '90s supergroup D-Ream, remember - things can only get better... So, what did 2020...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Does a drive actually have to be successful to qualify as great? Or, if a journey is attempted with sufficient panache, can a failure...

“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...

That time we bought a Renault 4 in Slovenia and took it on a road trip back to the UK...

It was a simple idea. Visit four different racetracks, in four different countries, in four days. Our steed? The world's foremost...

A quick overlanding hit? Surely that's an oxymoron? After all, overlanding is all about covering the big distances which are required...

Here at Planet Pub2Pub, we like to push the boundaries of what it's possible to achieve with apparently unsuitable vehicles. Our idea of...

It's the idyll which many folks think of first when the subject turns to overlanding. The line on the map, audaciously bounding across...

...If Goodwood's events are museums to the dinosaurs of motoring, Cuba is the long-lost island on which they still roam free...

I've driven across a few deserts in my time, and generally, these journeys haven't gone smoothly. Thanks to the harshness of the...