London to Sydney - onwards through Europe April 3rd 2010 Tuesday 30 March 2010
This is the first blog of our epic journey from London to Sydney in Australia. We (John and Barry) had a wonderful send off from the Ace Cafe on the old north circular road, London by friends and family. Not to mention the number of strangers that came to bid us a farewell. The pictures say it all.
We are now in Bologna, shacked up in a wonderful hospitable B&B where we ... read more
At the beginning of 2008 two of us were discussing cars while John was reading his Classic Car magazine and read out an advertisement asking for entrants to take part in the re-run of the greatest and longest endurance rally of all time – the 1968 London to Sydney race, which was won by Andrew Cowan in a Hillman Hunter – now a classic car. We decided to enter.
The rally was due to start in November 2008 from London and finish in Sydney on the 10th December but it never did materialise – due to Australian quarantine issues – they refused to allow cars to proceed into Oz without a two day Â... full info
