Austin Seven with a Beehive

[Ian McGowan]

My father always had a meths burner in a cube Peak & Frean (?) biscuit tin for a brew on the road. I still have a more modern meths burner and a folding aluminium windshield but, Oh my, it is so slow. So I now carry a tiny folding gas stove _ with piezo spark ignition - runs off a butane /propane mix cartridge, works way below zero degrees, uses the same folding aluminium windshield and boils a small kettle in less than half the time as the meths burner.
I have taken petrol stoves all over Europe, to the Arctic and to Africa. They are dirty and smelly but, they usually do the job and they share fuel with the vehicle.
These days in Europe its butane/propane gas for a travelling brew or a cooked breakfast.