Merry Christmas, Fellas!

Merry Christmas, dudes and girls! We’ll see you in 2015. Next year we have hot stuff in store for you, including Monaco, Paris, the Bahamas and possibly Tokyo. We’ll do some driving on the side as well. Subscribe! The Staff, leavemeflabbergasted.com

Flabbergasted Drive: BMW i8. → Timing Is Key

Hello and well, welcome to the future! Don’t go in too soon, don’t take out too soon. Timing is key. It’s a basic rule and it applies to most things in life. Fishing, hunting, gambling. It certainly applies to the stock market. After Summer 2009, the EUR/USD exchange rate was about 1,49. The British Pound Sterling, … More Flabbergasted Drive: BMW i8. → Timing Is Key

Munich.

I’m in Munich, Monaco, München. Bavaria, Bayern, Baviera. And it is disperse, deserted and quiet. Which is odd because today is the day of the start of the Oktoberfest, which starts in September. The streets around the centre are cobbled, pebbled and full of dead and brown and crisp leaves. Traffic is fluid outbound, nearly absent … More Munich.

MINI F56 Cooper S

This story began, as these stories often do, with a promising promenade by the sea, a cold and grey and drab and inland destination a few hundred miles away, a stoic and relentless sunshine and the keys to a brand new, fully fuelled MINI. Except the fuel won’t last. It is. Here we are. Yet … More MINI F56 Cooper S

Range Rover Sport

We all like the idea of food, drink and leisure at someone else’s expenses. The warming and soothing feeling you get everytime you happen to hold a free ticket with your name on that was paid for by your employer. Ever had lunch or dinner on your company? Tell me the food you had wasn’t … More Range Rover Sport

Riga, Latvia. Vulgar Beyond Reason, Fun Way Over Expectations

The Moon Safari club in Riga is stupendously vulgar. Coarse beyond belief. You’ve been to Las Vegas or in the roughest bars in Caracas? That’s amateur. The most vulgar club I’d ever been to before I visited Riga was a saggy and malodorant strip club in Las Vegas. The critical part is I said “was”. … More Riga, Latvia. Vulgar Beyond Reason, Fun Way Over Expectations

Monaco.

It was a rainy sunday. Classic, isn’t it? Sunshine during the week, dreary rain at weekends. Still, rain it was. Appointments were made and things were prepared. Monaco was the destination. The Principality, that is. If I were to actually describe my day in Monaco I’d probably need just a word and it would be “likeyoubloodygetintoacompletelydifferentworld”. … More Monaco.