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.
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Roads. Cars. People. / Since 2024
Europe.
The long
way round.
Giro D’Europa is an annual European road trip and automotive media project documenting the cars, roads and people behind every journey.
Latest road book / 2026
GDE / 03Trip complete
UK / central France /Monaco / Northern Italy / Germany
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.
- Trips, 2024–2026
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- Next chapter
- 2027
The story so far
Three years.
Plenty of stories.
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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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.
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The bits in between.
About Giro
Great roads.
Interesting cars.
Our kind of people.
Giro D’Europa is an annual European road trip and automotive media project built around interesting cars, unforgettable roads and the people willing to drive them thousands of miles.
We document each trip through photography, film and route stories, with future trips and events part of the next chapter. The cars bring us together. What happens along the way gives us something to share.
Stories from the road
GDE on film
There’s more
to the story.
Follow the project through our films and footage.
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The next route
starts here.
Future trips, new films and the next chapter of GDE.
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