In the summer of 1984, a friend and I decided to take my beloved, but ageing Datsun 260Z, over into mainland Europe from England for a seriously low budget two-week motoring holiday. At the Dover ferry terminal, nobody took much notice of two clean cut young men in a shiny sports car and we cleared [...]

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Last night I had the experience of a lifetime as far as taxi drivers go. I stepped into a taxi during rush hour. The driver thrusts off, throwing me back into my seat. “Where you go?” I said, “Please turn on the meter.” He smiles, “Okay Boss.” I say, “Such and such Hotel.” Then shock [...]

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While I was on holiday in Malta with some friends a few years ago we booked a boat trip to the neighbouring islands of Gozo and Comino. The package deal provided all food and drinks for the day, including breakfast, so we woke up early and set off for the harbour under a bright morning [...]

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Well if you heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times before, as the saying goes. So get ready, this is my version. I am back in the old U.S.of A. New Jersey actually, a quaint picturesque town called Cranford. Up until then two decades had passed and I was excited to catch up [...]

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Some friends and I in the fire service used to work part-time as coffin bearers. I guess it was because we already had dark uniforms, we had been trained to march in step and we were not freaked out by corpses. Most of the time we carried the coffins of retired local council officials or [...]

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At school, seven-year-old kids in Bali learn about the rules of the road; like to walk on the left side of the road, to cross the road at zebra crossings, and for drivers to stop at traffic lights when they are red. Two years later, when they get their first brand new Honda 110 cc [...]

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I had been in my local pub watching the now legendary 1979 Silverstone 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix and I was on my way home on my Honda CB250 doing my very best impression of Barry Sheen chasing Kenny Roberts. I was laying the bike into a long sweeping left hand bend on a road I [...]

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In the 1980s I was working as an agency truck driver in Oxford on my days off from the fire service. Early one morning I received a call asking me to drive a truckload of stuff to Norwich then bring back another load the next day. This was quite a regular run for me and [...]

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