All Around Britain With Lavinia
Day 10 of Lavinia’s Road Trip for Reclaim Life started off in Dumfries, at the Caledonian Hotel with Martin L from the Talbot Owners’ Club. Martin was a welcome visitor, bringing Paul and Harry some spare parts for the distributor as well as some moral support! As always, spending a bit of time working on Lavinia in the car park […]
Day 9 of Lavinia’s Road Trip for Reclaim Life started off in sunny Blackpool, however Lavinia was not running well again so Paul spent some more time under the bonnet. Lavinia had a new set of points fitted yesterday but she hasn’t been running quite the same since then so Paul needed to fit another set of points – the […]
Day 8 of Lavinia’s Road Trip for Reclaim Life officially marks one week on the road for Lavinia, Harry and Paul! 🌻 So far they have travelled from Leighton Buzzard to London and onto Margate, Brighton and Hove, Bridport, Minehead, Carmarthen and Porthmadog. And Day 8 certainly proved to be an eventful one for Lavinia, Harry and Paul, travelling north 150 […]
Day 7 was a busy day for Lavinia, Harry and Paul. After a good night’s sleep it was time to leave a very wet Carmarthen to travel back down to the coast. First stop: the Pendine Sands. Here, Lavinia, Harry and Paul visited the Museum of Landspeed which tells the iconic story of the Pendine Sands and the sporting records set […]
Today, there was a very early start (up at 5.30am, on the road at 6am) to make the long journey up to Bristol, over the Severn Bridge, into Wales and along to Carmarthen but the early start certainly paid off! Lavinia, Harry and Paul made good progress in the morning, travelling through Bridgwater and onto Bristol. Their first stop was the Severn […]
Following yesterday’s change of plans, Day 5 of Lavinia’s road trip was spent in Minehead. The day was spent dodging the showers, but once the weather eased up Lavinia was parked up on the front, with the Reclaim Life flag flying. Harry and Paul then spent some time in the afternoon sharing the word about Reclaim Life and speaking with […]
Day 4 started with a little set back due to Lavinia leaking water from the top of the radiator; following on from yesterday’s repairs, Paul had to do some further repairs and checks to ensure Lavinia was ready to go. Due to this and the time it would take to travel down to Land’s End and back up again to […]
Lavinia, Harry and Paul successfully travelled along the south coast from Brighton to Bridport in Dorset on Day 3 of their road trip. After a good night’s sleep at the hotel in Brighton, it was time to hit the road, heading west to Worthing and onto Littlehampton for a quick breakfast stop on the A259. After continuing along the coast […]
Day 2 was another successful day on the road! Lavinia, Harry and Paul drove from Margate to Brighton. What started off as a wet day ended with some blue skies and sunshine and Lavinia is reported to be performing well ☀️ Lavinia, Harry and Paul made a stop at the Battle of Britain Memorial just outside Folkestone before travelling along […]
t was a busy first day for Lavinia on her road trip for Reclaim Life. After an interview with BBC Three Counties Radio, Lavinia, Harry and Paul set off from the Reclaim Life centre in Leighton Buzzard at 8.30am. The first leg of their journey was 50 miles and took them down to Ladbroke Hall in London, the former Talbot car […]