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Ben Coombs
- Jul 26
- 4 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 21
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 20
- 4 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jun 26
- 6 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jun 20
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Mar 31
- 4 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Mar 21
- 3 min
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 -...
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Ben Coombs
- Feb 6
- 2 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Dec 15, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Dec 6, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Nov 2, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Sep 27, 2023
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Sep 27, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Aug 2, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 27, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 11, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jun 28, 2023
- 2 min
...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...
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Ben Coombs
- Mar 22, 2023
- 1 min
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? ...
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Ben Coombs
- Feb 15, 2023
- 2 min
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. ...
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Ben Coombs
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
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,...
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Ben Coombs
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Nov 24, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Oct 19, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Sep 24, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jan 6, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Oct 20, 2020
- 3 min
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,...
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Ben Coombs
- Oct 6, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Sep 19, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Aug 6, 2020
- 7 min
The Slovenian Job
That time we bought a Renault 4 in Slovenia and took it on a road trip back to the UK...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 30, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 29, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 28, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 22, 2020
- 5 min
The Art of Overlanding 02 - Five Routes Across the World
It's the idyll which many folks think of first when the subject turns to overlanding. The line on the map, audaciously bounding across...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 16, 2020
- 4 min
Paradise Island - Exploring Cuban Car Culture
...If Goodwood's events are museums to the dinosaurs of motoring, Cuba is the long-lost island on which they still roam free...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
Great Drives 03 - The Nairn Buses
I've driven across a few deserts in my time, and generally, these journeys haven't gone smoothly. Thanks to the harshness of the...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 15, 2020
- 3 min
The Art of Overlanding
The Art of Overlanding - a series of articles providing all the inspiration and knowledge you need to make your overland dreams happen.
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 10, 2020
- 7 min
Two Pints and a Panda - an NC500 Adventure.
A few years ago, while teetering uncertainly on a barstool in my local Dartmoor boozer, I had an idea. One of the best ideas ever to...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
Great Drives 02 - Half Safe, the Ben Carlin Story
So, you think you're adventurous? Unless your idea of a honeymoon is crossing the Atlantic in an amphibious truck, you're not even on the...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 7, 2020
- 2 min
The Pub2Pub Expedition, in Numbers...
Everyone loves a good statistic. Regular people love them because they cut through the noise and distil a question down into a simple...
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Ben Coombs
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome to Planet Pub2Pub
Why hello there, and thank you for checking out Pub2Pub's shiny new web presence, at which we've been beavering away to while away the...
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