Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder.

I am for once in the back of a car, not just any car, a car which I am sharing with my good friend, the cameraman director, Douglas Bolton,

because we are actually pretending to work in Turkey at the moment doing some

filming and we're just on a bit of a drive and we're talking about what we are going to do

in the next shoot that we've got which is in Ireland in terms of renting a car. Hello Doug

and thank you for joining me. Hello Simon. Well we've been sent a possible

list of cars and I thought it'd be interesting partly to talk about the kinds of cars that

actually suit us when we're going round on a film shoot but also to talk about what we do when

we're just sort of proper people on holiday in terms of

renting a car so this list we've been sent is a little bit odd do you want to sort of talk through

what we've got here Doug yeah so let's start with Volkswagen Polo then it goes out to a Ford Focus

which is your average family car.

There's a couple of SUVs in there, and then you get to the end where it's a big SUV.

And I think from a filming point of view, obviously the big SUVs look great,

but they are probably not the most fuel- or polar bear friendly choice.

Well, Dunk I should explain, does a lot of work in the US.

And for then, particularly if you're doing what he does,

quite a lot of filming in the Colorado mountains in the winter,

you do need a big old car, but we're going to be going

to Ireland in the early summer. So, of these, I basically look, and I've been doing this ever

since I started renting cars, Doug, I'd just be looking at, I'll just take the cheapest, which I think in car rental

terms is called an economy, which is one down from a compact, and in this case it would be a

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