How this great adventure from Bangkok to Helsinki came about for me.
In late 2013, I was speaking to Ross Oakman and Frank Bird and they told me about a plan to drive from Hanoi to Helsinki in August 2014 with a small group of friends and asked if I was interested in joining them. This soon became Bangkok to Helsinki when we found that we couldn’t drive right hand drive cars in Vietnam anymore.
I immediately said I was very keen and would do the trip in Penny my trusty 1923 Vauxhall that has carried James, Julie and I to many far away places. I discussed it with Julie to see if she was able to join me on the trip but alas, she was unable to join me due to her training for Bhutan, so I decided to look for someone to accompany me on the 60 day journey.
After lots of too-ing and thro-ing with different people, I decided I was going to do the trip on my own. In late April, Maurie Smith a friend of Ross and Frank’s, didn’t have anyone to go with him in his car, so he decided to leave his car in OZ and travel with me in Penny.