Apparently all roads lead to Rome. For this summer's expedition we've decided to apply this quite literally and have designed a month long road trip from Oxford to Rome: from our front door via the Channel Tunnel, through France and Italy. Our mandate - to move slowly (with the roof down), to take mostly small and pretty roads, to learn Italian from audio CDs while we drive, to stay in local farm houses where possible and to eat simply and well from the produce of the place.  We plan to punctuate with picnics, lots of them, and have built a mobile kitchen in the boot so that we can tumble out wherever we land.  This is our inventory must-packs for a road worth travelling.