Classic Car Wife

PG is taking her first road trip, which is around Ireland. We drove from her homebase near Gatwick for an overnight stop in Manchester. I...

We have had so much fun in MoneyPenny and have been planning some UK road trips. Mr F sold his business and decided to congratulate...

Since we put MoneyPenny into our garage last August she has had a wheel-balance and some new oil in the supercharger and is back on the...

For those who are interested, these are the stats on our recently completed French road trip. We travelled 2550 miles or 4103 kms. We...

With our coast-to-coast Odyssey completed, and a week spent relaxing in the sunshine of St Tropez, we needed to get MoneyPenny back to...

We made it to our Mediterranean destination and spent a week based in an AirBnB apartment in the Old Town of St Tropez. MoneyPenny was in...

We ended up staying four nights in Toulouse - two more than we had planned - and forfeited our two-night stay in Marseilles. After...

Ah, the joys of holidaying in a classic car. This morning, MoneyPenny's battery started discharging and the warning light came on as we...

We are just finishing four nights in an apartment called Le Porche de Sarlat in Sarlat-de-Canada. It's been a great base for the region....

Our Atlantic base was Bordeaux and we drove to Arcachon to swim and partake of the coastal delights. We were there a week before the...

Our few days in Amboise were unseasonably chilly and windy but we still put the roof down and enjoyed driving the countryside and seeing...

MoneyPenny had a rest day at the hotel today. We have walked to all the sights today! It's just as well because we need to walk off some...

We've driven just over three hours today and have arrived in the beautiful town of Amboise in the Loire Valley. One of the highlights of...

We're back and reunited with our dear MoneyPenny! She's had a number of things done to her while we've been back in Australia, but more...

It's been a few years since this fantastic (usually annual) car show has been held so it was great to be back at the beautiful Melbourne...

On a sunny Spring Sunday, what better way to spend the day than taking our Spitfire 'Suzy' for a run. We decided to drive to Terrey Hills...

Mr F is very attached to Triumph Spitfires as he learned to drive in one, and his first car was one back in the 1970s. We have owned this...

This was the final leg of our 2022 European road trip with MoneyPenny. After a couple of wonderful days in Paris, including dinner and...

This was a LONG drive! In hindsight, we probably should have broken this up a bit more, but it was made worse by the 40C record-breaking...

I thought this deserved its own post because it is such an amazing event. MoneyPenny was cooling her heels in the Palais de Papes carpark...