Giro D’EuropaIndependent motoring / Est. 2024

Giro D’Europa / The road books

Routes worth
remembering.

3 trips. Different roads. The same reason to keep going.

Monaco coastline from the Giro photo archive

Featured road book / 2026

The Italian job.

Les Leston, Monaco and Italy’s Motor Valley. A missed mountain route, another MX-5 failure, and the long way home through Germany.

UK / central France /Monaco / Northern Italy / Germany

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The collection.

2024 — 2026

Giro 2026 photograph 2026

Road book / 2026

The Italian job.

UK / central France /Monaco / Northern Italy / Germany

Les Leston, Monaco and Italy’s Motor Valley. A missed mountain route, another MX-5 failure, and the long way home through Germany.

Open trip
Giro 2025 photograph 2025

Road book / 2025

More cars. More detours.

France / The Alps / The Netherlands

A bigger group, another Alpine drive and an unscheduled search for parts in France. The second Giro found its own way across Europe.

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Giro 2024 photograph 2024

Road book / 2024

The first long way round.

Nürburgring / Stuttgart / Swiss Alps / Como / Monaco

The original Giro: Germany, the Swiss Alps, Lake Como and Monaco, with an MX-5 alternator failure just before the journey home.

Open trip

Giro D’Europa 2027

The next route
starts here.

Future trips, new films and the next chapter of GDE.

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