Travel 2006 – London, Lacock

Friday, 27th/Sunday, 29th October 2006 – London, Lacock The weekend? What can I say? Well, it was packed, hectic and pretty damn wonderful in all sorts of ways. It just doesn’t seem to have involved enough sleep! Friday started out well, and I worked from home in the morning, while Lynne was out getting her…

Travel 2006 – Mugello

Thursday 7th/Monday 11th September – Mugello, Italy Italy – what can I really say about it? Let’s start with Thursday, which was really entirely eaten up with travelling. We got a good early start on Thursday morning, which turned out to be just as well, because the M40 was grindingly slow after a “police incident”…

Travel 2006 – Brands Hatch, London

Saturday 1st/Sunday 2nd, July 2006 – Brands Hatch, London Well, we had a really relaxing weekend at the DTM meeting at Brands Hatch. Charlie Kimball, being the lovable guy that he is, had very kindly got us some passes from his team (Signature Plus), as had our friend Mark Hillier who was running Julia Kuhn…

Travel/Food 2005 – Macau

Saturday, 12th/Tuesday 22nd November 2005 – Macau We wasted a lot of the day at the airport, but it was worth checking in early to get the extra legroom seats on the plane. Virgin now sell these seats, at £50 extra each. They were, however, doing a promotion of buy one get one free, so…

Travel 2005 – Mondello Park, Malahide, Ireland

Saturday, 22nd/Sunday 23rd, September 2005 – Mondello Park, Malahide, Ireland Flying out of anywhere at 07.00 is way too early, especially when they want you to be at the airport at least 40 minutes prior to the flight. We stayed at the Crowne Plaza near to Heathrow overnight, and failed to get any dinner (apart…

Travel 2005 – Germany

5th September 2005 A Weekend At The Races So we had quite a weekend in Germany. For those of you who want to know about it, here it is! It isn’t all cars… Thursday didn’t start off too well, with the damn car having another nervous breakdown, and me ending up having to coax it…

Travel/Food 2005 – Monza, Italy

Thursday, 7th to Monday, 11th July 2005 – Monza I know I only had three days out of the office, but it still felt like a holiday to me. It started on Wednesday evening, when Skil and Clivio flew in so that Clivio could compete in the GP2 Race, supporting the British Grand Prix at…

Travel 2005 – Spa-Francorchamps, Jezus-Eik, Brussels, Belgium

April/May 2005 – Spa-Francorchamps, Jezus-Eik, Brussels Something of a wasted weekend, frankly. As soon as the 2005 calendar was announced, and it became obvious we’d be racing on a number of foreign tracks, I’d been asking anyone who’d listen why it was that we were going to Monza in July when the Italian summer weather…

Travel 2004 – Macau (How to Get to Fisherman’s Bend)

Friday, 19th November 2004 – Macau, Day 6 (How to Get to Fisherman’s Bend) I learned a few things over the last few days in Macau, the most bizarre one being that it is possible to get to the photographers’ stand at Fisherman’s Bend. The reason I’d had doubts was because the time Andrea tried…

Travel 2004 – Macau, Day 5

Thursday, 18th November 2004 – Macau, Day 5 We got the early start we wanted and were set up in the press office by 9.15. That left me enough time to catch the slowest Media Shuttle in the World out to the Melco Hairpin. I particularly like Melco, because it’s very hard to get round…