Bondi to the Baltic

Yes, we have condensed the trip into a book. Here are some reviews: The best kind of travel writing: engaging, informative, perceptive an...

This statue is of a Kyrgyz historian, in the Chon-Kemin Valley. He was killed by the Russians. Can anyone tell me his name or anything ab...

Yes folks, the book of our drive from Australia to Finland in those two wonderful vintage cars will be out, hopefully, in early 2020. I...

Bill and Nigel are now en route to Germany in the fully air conditioned Whippet. Summer is really over and they are doubtful if autumn actu...

Almost "castled out" after three more 12th century piles in Sigulda, the "Switzerland of Latvia", eventually the Whippet...

On the road from Dikli to Parnu the Whippet decides to stop in the middle of a single lane bridge. Liz finds out that her role is to push t...

Avoiding the main roads where possible Bill and Liz headed south through Lihula in Estonia, eventually crossing into Latvia on a quiet count...

From Tallinn, down to the coastal town of Haapsalu, ON THE BALTIC. Old castles, rivers, waterfalls, forest, manor houses, and all summery g...

Summer ends early in the north. It’s September and it’s cold and raining in Finland. Bill and Liz take a quick drive straight to the Helsi...

After 20,000 km from Thailand, across central Asia to Finland in 2014 and 2015, Bill Amann’s dogged little Whippet (named Stan, after his pr...

Earlier we mentioned being invited to present at the 2016 Adventure Travel Film Festival in Bright. Bright is an aptly named village tucked...

We are sitting in bright late-summer sunshine on the lawns of the home of Risto and Marja-Liisa Heiskanen, confronted with a groaning table ...

Michael Leggo asked me this question a dozen times as we shared the wheel through Russia. I now know the answer. People say the Finns ar...

It has been brought to our attention, here in Finland, that Finland is washed on the south by the Gulf of Finland, and on the west by the G...

Well, maybe trailing the headlines. The Bondi to the Baltic expeditioners have had a wonderful welcome in Finland, thanks to the the great ...

No traveller can spend 5 days in St Petersburg and not post at least one comment. Its palaces, museums and galleries are a splendid reminde...