I’VE really missed my regular road trips. I enjoy driving my Land Rovers on long journeys to interesting places far more than I like taking them to shows and events, but I haven’t had a decent road trip since before the pandemic. That’s why I was rather excited last autumn to receive an invitation to join the first global media drive for the Ineos Grenadier in Scotland.
The Highlands are beautiful in the autumn, so I hatched a plan to drive north in SYD, my 1990 3.9 Range Rover, play with the Grenadier for a couple of days, and then call in to see some old friends before returning south. SYD has spent a lot of time in Scotland, either as transport and occasional overnight accommodation back in the days when I was a serious hillwalker and Munro-bagger, or when we were visiting all the major Scottish off-road driving centres. And then there was the memorable Trans-Scotland Tour in 1993, from Inverbervie on
