Berkshire Motor Show

With it being the first Sunday of the month, we'd already planned a trip to the steam trains at Prospect Park. But an advert on FB showed there was a car show there all day as well. Kim set off on a 8.5 mile walk and after making a picnic Lily and I set off in the Beetle. We were too late in the day to join LTV on the field as they wanted cars in at 8:30am and not moving until the end. I'm quite glad we didn't in the end! Parking in general we met up with Kim and walked around. There were a few big rigs.







The car show itself was weirdly split from an area in the middle, some odd bits at the side, two clubs by the trees and a couple of lines at the end. From looking at photos from previous years I was expecting some nice classics.....there were a few, but it mainly seemed to be some rather dodgy moderns. I'm not one to be snobby, but the Hyundai Coupe Club stand did nothing for me at all. Anyway, we had a look round some of the cars.











Lily had a go on hook a duck and was pleased with her sweetie haul, which she munched until we got to the reptile tent. Then the lure of hold a big snake was too much. The man did offer something smaller, but she was insistent on getting to grips with the 10kg Boa Constrictor.





A few more cars and we made it to the LTV stand. Some slightly cheesed off members had the same thought as us about the content of the show and were planning to leave ealry.













With our picnic under the trees over we clambered aboard the Beetle for the short drive down the the trains. For 50p a ride we hurtled round the two tracks and had  drink before heading home.







We'll be back for more trains in the future. The same can't be said for the car show sadly.

Steve.