Alfa Romeo cars of the past gave their owners both pride and pain. 
Sometimes it was more pain than pride, but is this still the case today"  
Geoff Maxted conducts an extensive drive with an Alfa Romeo Stelvio but with one small detail.
That drive involves a trip into the heart of English history, albeit with horses of a different breed.

English Heritage, Italian Style
And so we travelled to Kelmscott Manor. This was once the country retreat of the artist and designer William Morris, founder of the Arts & Craft movement in the UK and friend to the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. Approached through verdant, remote Oxfordshire country, along the lanes to the village, where grass and weeds grow through the cracks and crevices of neglect, the route becomes increasingly narrow, requiring vehicular passing-places. We imagine what it must have been like then, near the end of the Victorian era, when the journey was accomplished with a coach-and-four. On this day our horses were of a different kind, found under the hood of a gorgeous blue Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
Sometimes a place simply resonates with you. For this writer it is Kelmscott Manor. I walk in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burn-Jones, and Morris himself. I mount the narrow stairs, holding on to the worn bannister rail where artistic hands have been before. This place has a unique and inspiring atmosphere.
Did I see a ghost"

The Alfa Romeo Stelvio
Equally inspiring but for an entirely di...