Monthly Archives: December 2006

I’m very very much against road pricing, the latest (old) idea to come out of one of the governments think tanks; Each vehicle has a box that receives position signals from satellites (the ‘downlink’) (GPS or the European Gallileo system) and records vehicle movements in some sort of local memory. At some specified interval the … Continue reading »

I’ve just finished reading the quite amazing book from Charley Boorman – Race to Dakar – First of all I want to make it clear that I really enjoyed Long Way Round, even though I’d watched ‘the real boys’ doing it several years earlier on no budget, with no support crew and certainly no big … Continue reading »