The Trip: an Alpine adventure in an Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeos are real drivers’ cars. They’re beautifully balanced and are imbued with that Italian passion for pure driving. I’ve got a 1972 Giulia Super, which is the car with the white nose in the pictures. I’ve had it for about 10 years, five of which I spent doing it up. In 2022 I had planned to drive it to the factory in Milan where it was built to celebrate its 50th birthday but I didn’t get it finished in time so instead I decided to drive it through the Alps as part of a classic car rally in the summer of 2023 and even then it came down to the wire. We were still fixing bits to it on the Monday morning, and I left at 3pm that afternoon.