latest blogs from the road
If you have found your way here, this is the main blog page. A wonderful list of my inane ramblings and photography from our holidays around the world and road trips across America and Europe.
There may be even one or two useful posts hidden within, but I’m making no promises.
A visual companion to our Monaco Classic Grand Prix visit, bringing together close-up images and videos of the vintage Formula One and sports cars that raced through the streets of Monte Carlo.
A day at the Monaco Classic Grand Prix offered vintage Formula One cars, iconic streets and a very different way to experience racing in the Principality — without Formula One prices.
A couple of hours from our Florida base in Davenport, the Florida Railroad Museum in Parrish turned out to be the perfect birthday day out. Old locomotives, a scenic rail journey, and a surprise driver experience made this a highlight away from the Orlando crowds.
Despite not being the world’s biggest Disney fan, we found ourselves spending a day at Magic Kingdom in Orlando. There were crowds, thunderstorms, roller coasters, and an embarrassingly enthusiastic teenager — plus some ill-advised family T-shirts.
For our Florida holiday we based ourselves in Davenport, staying in a spacious villa with a pool, games room and more space than we knew what to do with. Close enough to the parks but far enough away to relax, it turned out to be the perfect base for our Central Florida adventures.
With no new road trips planned, it felt like the right time to finally upload one of our most unlikely holidays — a two-week Florida stay built around Orlando’s theme parks, a very posh villa, and a surprising amount of real Florida away from the oversized mice and neon chaos.
A full index of every blog post from our 16-day East Coast USA road trip — covering New York City, Ithaca, Niagara Falls, Canada, Toronto, Boston, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, The Hamptons and beyond.
A reflective look at the final miles of our road trip — roadside Americana, forests, bridges and fading September light on the journey from Boston back to New York.
A shorter final chapter: leaving The Hamptons, hunting for a place to watch Forest’s European match, a visit to Long Beach and Valley Stream, and a business-class flight home to Derbyshire with A52 Executive Cars completing the journey.
A grey start didn’t stop us enjoying Montauk’s surf, Sag Harbor’s charm and the exclusive coastline of The Hamptons, topped off with one of the warmest evenings we’d had all trip.
A road-trip day full of contrasts: pancakes in a retro diner, a stop at the infamous Lizzie Borden House, a stunning afternoon in Mystic and a sunset ferry across Long Island Sound before a slightly chaotic arrival in Southampton.
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