Ben Battye :
Day 6. Following a heated debate late on Thursday regarding Friday mornings departure time from our chosen campsite deep in the Carniche mountains in Southern Austria (heated because I threw a strop at the suggested 5.30am start) we awoke on the dot of 6am (much more reasonable) and with a collective spring in our step packed and prepared Martha in a speedy 26 minutes (a new record).
Ross : Day 5. The Alps have been pleasured by the sound of Martha today. Finally at 8am this morning with a solid fuel tank in place we departed our motel and headed towards Italy. I am now writing this at 7.30pm and we are approaching the Austrian border – boy it’s been a long day. Read more →
Wonderful video from the guys at Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
Good evening. Today was a funky combination of agony and relief. We are only 4 days into this mammoth expedition and it feels like we have been on the road for years. Doggy years. For every 1 hour spent in Martha (especially the back), it feels like 7.
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many regular blogs from the crew members of the Follow That Fire Engine Challenge. We will use this space to update you all on the thrills and spills of our round-the-world journey as well as the mundane daily routine of life on the road.
Darren Clarke is one of the World’s best and most popular golfers and has played in numerous Major Championships and Ryder Cups. Darren sadly lost his wife to cancer 6 years ago and has been an ardent support of Cancer Research since then. Read more →
The crew couldn’t have hoped for a better send off! The Grand Square in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was the perfect location. We were surrounded by great English Architecture, with a backdrop of Canary Wharf across the river and Greenwich Observatory in the distance. The venue was significant because Greenwich was chosen, back in 1884, as the Prime Meridian of the world, Longitude Zero (0° 0’ 0”).
Ewan McGregor is one of Britian’s most successful actors. In 2004, Ewan embarked on a 19,000 mile expedition around the world on a motor bike for TV documentary Long Way Round. Who better to motivate the FTFE crew, who are excited to have received this message of support. Read more →
In line with our green strategy of making the expedition carbon neutral we are extremely proud to announce our partnership with Carbon Footprint Ltd who will independently verify FTFE carbon footprint, ensuring it is adequately offset. Read more →
Steve Moore: When I first set eyes on Martha, she was a mucky little thing. Fresh from fighting fires on the heath in Dorset, she was covered in mud and frankly looked exhausted after 16 years of service with Dorset Fire and Rescue.
How far she has come in 6 short months. She was never designed to go much more than 10 miles at a time. We had to turn her from a fire fighting work-horse into an expedition truck that could cope with everything the world could throw at her. Asset Co came to the rescue. Read more →
