Snow business
Together with photographer Antony Fraser I took the new Porsche 911 Turbo across northern England to Scotland’s central lowlands the week before Christmas. Our trip coincided with the first snows of winter, and the Cheviot hills were barely visible in the blizzards. Photographing the car was prefixed by first cleaning the salt off it, then drying off a fresh dump of snow. Worth it though. Snow-laden firs, drystone walls defining white-out hillsides presented innumerable Christmas card scenes. Heading back across the ungritted Northumbrian and Cumbrian moorland roads up around Alston gave me the chance to test the Porsche’s four-wheel drive and traction control systems to the full – great fun. It was a Cabriolet and when the sun shone we had the top down, heater cranked up and sheepskins to the fore, much to the amusement of local farmers. Good gig, home before the holiday chaos.