It's Show time!

Well after a week at home it was time to be off again. We were heading across the country to the Peterborough area, as we were attending the Land Rover Show on the East of England Showground.
First though we were staying at D
Ferry Meadows, a CC site.
After a three and a half hour run we arrived! This is a huge site, but is cleverly divided into small areas, so there was no sense of being crowded in.

The next day, Wednesday, I went for a ride on the Nene Valley railway, that was adjacent to the site. I had a good day out , traveling the whole length of the line. One of the highlights being that I saw Tornado at the Engine shed! (Tornado, is a new build engine).

The train that I traveled on.

Tornado receiving attention on the Nene Valley Railway

I had discovered that a Fish and Chip van called at the site between 5.00 and 7.00pm, so we had the luxury of Fish and Chips for supper.
We shopped on the Thursday and had a good look round the site.

One of the glades at Ferry Meadows

We cleared up on Friday morning and waited for Rob to arrive at the gate. As soon as he did we formed a little convoy as we headed the three miles down the road to the showground. It was a long queue to get in as there were just so many Land Rovers. However we were soon in and set up! The LRO show Peterborough is where Robert and I first met  some 8 years ago, and we had not been since.

The LRO Show!

Series 1 converted for rail use!

Land Rover Fire Engine

We spent the weekend enjoying the show and meeting old friends. As it is a permanent showground there are tarmac paths everywhere, so Lizzie was able to ride round on her scooter.
Robert left on the Sunday afternoon, and we watched a few others depart.

On the Monday morning we also left, heading for Chapel Lane CC site, which is south of Birmingham. We pulled on to the site and were greeted by grumpy wardens!  The weather forecast said wind, so careful positioning of the caravan and awning was needed. We survived though!
This site is on what was RAF Whythall, a war time barrage balloon installation.

We had an excellent day out at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon. It was a place that I had been meaning to visit for years. We will let the following photographs tell the story.

Morris Minor Fire Engine!

A bug eyed sprite! I always wanted one of these.

Hillman Imp!  I had one of these ADG493B

A convertible Austin A30

Lady Penelope's car!

We cleared up on Friday morning ready to move to the Adventure overland show. Just as we were about to leave we had a phone call to say that our nice new caravan would be ready for collection on 2nd of October, so could we deliver our caravan to the dealers so that the mover could be swapped over.  So excitedly we set for Stratford race course for the Overland Show where we would met Barry and Steve.
Well to say it was poorly organised was an understatement. It wasn't helped by the poor weather.

Steve was so disgruntled he left before Lunch on the Saturday. We sat it out until 11.00am on Sunday, when we also left along with many others.
Such a shame as the Adventure Overland show had always been so good in the past!
As we headed for home we excitedly drew up our plans for emptying, cleaning and polishing the caravan, prior to part exchanging it!