After two nights and a day on the Ferry from Portsmouth it was a relief to drive off into Spain, more than a relief really quite a pleasure as the Spanish roads were free, smooth and empty, a great starter for Nelson to get warmed up for the trip. I …

Unusually for me I made a bit of a hash of visas for this trip, partly my inexperience and partly underestimating how difficult some of the visa systems can be, especially if you want something outside of the normal standard tourist process. So my first mistake was to believe what …

  For the first leg of the trip, we head south from Edinburgh to Northumbria, as we have just finished the series “The Last Kingdom”, Lee plans a route to Lindisfarne and Bamburgh Castle, which has an exhibition celebrating the series we have both enjoyed a lot.  We take a …

As we left Edinburgh on Monday with Lee I was trying out an old playlist on the ipad in the car, just as the sun caught Arthur’s Seat, the stereo started to play “Freebird” which seemed a little appropriate as I set out on my latest Celtic Safari to Africa. …

Some people just jump in their car and go. There are a lot of positives for that, especially if you have plenty of time and no deadlines.  In reality, spare parts can be obtained anywhere in the world, with a few exceptions visas can be obtained as you go along, …

These last few weeks have been a stressful test of my perseverance with the administration of visas, I think this will be a bit of a theme for the Celtic Safari as I have come to call this trip as I am reading many reports from fellow travellers of trouble …

  Celtic Rover is back! I am once again in the intensive pre-trip planning phase of one of my “big trips”, the spreadsheets are out, visas are being researched, and Nelson is being revamped for a big trip. This time to Africa for the classic UK to Cape Town trip …

A week ago I was in Buenos Aries in the last days of my six month trip around South America.  Life has changed a lot for me in just a week, as it has for the majority of people in the world, thanks to the Corona virus.  I am now …

As I write this I am back home in Edinburgh under lockdown and i think it is going to be one of the quietest birthdays of my life, to maximise the safety of the family Lee is with her mother in Aberdeen and I am here with my oldest daughter …

My last stop with Nelson was the Uruguay capital Montevideo, although my main purpose of visiting this city was the great reputation of its port facilities and the ease of its paperwork for sending Nelson home I did have a few days there and the city grew on me very …