Triumph - The Smartest Cars in the Land.

The Walking Cinema!

This is one of the many and brilliant inventions of Mr William Friese-Greene.  Every Edwardian gent had a moustache (and a tweed jacket with trailinjg wires everywhere!).

In the footsteps, or rather thyre tracks, of Claude Friese-Greene.

Mr. Claude Friese-Greene was a filmmaker and cinematographer who is best remembered for his 1926 collection of films entitled 'The Open Road'. The Open Road was a series of short films of his 1920s road trip from Land's End to John O'Groats and was filmed using the Biocolour process, a process pioneered by his father William Friese-Greene.

Bit more trivia. You'll thank me during the next pub quiz!

One of British Leyland's finest cars the Dolomite was designed by the italian Giovanni Michelotti code name 'Project Ajax'! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Dolomite

LEJOG Trivia.

Isn't this a marvellous piece of machinery?  What a way to travel!

In 1911 Mr.  Ivan Hart-Davis Esq rode his 3.5hp single-speed Triumph between Land’s End and John O’Groats.  He covered the 886 miles in 29 hours 12 minutes. Source: Wikipedia.

This emerald isle set in a silvery sea

Sunday evening:  a bottle of beer, a laptop that is a bit too hot on my lap, Dad watching 'Miami Twice' and I'm pouring over a map on the United Kingdom planning my route.  Maps a pretty items, also lovely to look at. I can here strains of 'Jerusalem'

Many thanks to those at the Echo.

Thanks to those at the fabulous Echo talking newspaper that have kindly sponsored me.  I'll give you a proper shout out after my next visit to the Echo (I forgot to write your names down on a piece of paper! Sorry!). Thanks again guys!.  I really do appreciate it. xxx