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Baltic Sea Circle Day 5 We got up and packed up camp by 8:30am, making sure we left no trace at our wild campsite near Kopparberg. The aim for today would be to get to near Stromsund, which was a fair distance. The roads were still fast, with mostly dual carriageway and speed limits ofContinue reading “Kopparberg to Gällö”

Baltic Sea Circle Day 4 We started early on day four. It had been a restless night for me, I couldn’t figure out why my sleeping bad seemed smaller in the night, my feet were jammed in the end. It was only in the light of the morning that I saw Gemma and I hadContinue reading “Nyehusen to Kopparberg”

Baltic Sea Circle Day 3 We intended to wake early and set off driving but we needed an extra hour of sleep. After getting up and making a quick breakfast of granola and coffee we packed our tent away and left the campsite with the campsite owner bidding me farewell in German.  Today’s plan wasContinue reading “Hamburg to Nyehusen”

Baltic Sea Circle Day 2 The overnight ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland was busy. We queued up ready to board, still amazing that we were there after the trial of the day. 24h earlier we were stranded on the side of the road.  As we moved to get onto the ship, we flickedContinue reading “Harwich to Hamburg”

Baltic Sea Circle Day 1 The day before we were due to depart we made a decision to postpone the start of our rally adventure by 48h due to circumstances beyond our control. We were able to rebook our ferry and cancel our first night accommodation really easily and were happy to catch up withContinue reading “Starting with a bang”

Today we start our challenging adventure, driving 6000 miles around the Baltic Sea, raising money for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. It’s been a long time in the planning and I guess any trip like this wouldn’t be complete with a last minute hurdle to overcome! We’ve had to delay our departure by 48h from theContinue reading “Starting the journey”

Over the last year there is one question that people ask me above all others: do you think the car will make it? I always say yes, but its a case of ”when” the car will break down and not ”if”! Having worked on most parts of the Porsche, I’m pretty confident with making repairsContinue reading “Spares and repairs”

Unbelievably, there are only three weeks to go until we depart for the Baltic Sea Circle rally. Final preparations are underway and checklists are getting made and ticked off all over the place. The final set of vinyl for the car has been ordered, passports are dusted off and kit is being organised, packed, thenContinue reading “21 days to go: kit list”

So last week I got an email from Joe, a researcher from BAFTA nominated lunchtime TV show Steph’s Packed Lunch. He’d seen the news article in the Cambridge Independent and wondered if I’d be interested in featuring on the popular Channel 4 daytime show. Ummm….yeah! We sorted out the arrangements and sorted out that MondayContinue reading “Long road to Leeds”

I posted previously about how 12 months ago I joined ecologi, a subscription based startup company that works with environmental projects all over the world. Their aim is to enable individuals to contribute towards positive climate action. So far, I have offset over 28 tonnes of CO2. The small amount of money I pay eachContinue reading “28 tonnes of CO2 saved”