What an awsome event this one turned out to be. Mishaps you say... urm yes we had a few!
Ill tell ye a story.
Edd picks me up on the friday afternoon and we head down to meet tony and his girlfriend hannah at billing aquadrome. This place as it turns out would be a fantastic place for a large mini / car event. Lots of pubs, places to camp and just lots of fun stuff to do, of course we had to try out all of the pubs to find the best.
We set off in convoy on saturday morning and headed for the next services where we met up with martin. We then carry on towards london. However with no warning tony suddenly dissapears. "wheres tony" "come on tony hurry up" "WHERES TONY"!
in our haste martins tom tom took us through the center of london rather than on the M25 around it (which as we found out later is what tony did).
We head through the center of london, doging cabs and mercs when all of a sudden martins engine thinks its a kettle and lets off some steam in the CENTER of london!
we pull over, let it cool, top up water and carry on.
Just as we set off a bus pulls out infront of us. Its FULL of chelsey supporters and i have a fealing the actual team. The buggers had won something and were all shouting and cheering... Me and edd though felt scared.. being in a bright red mini with manchester minis all over it right behind a bus full of chelsey fans.
eventually we make it to crystal palace, set up camp and have beers and bbq
So sunday morning. RUN DAY
and i say morning because we were woken up by revving minis at 3 fecking 30 AM! it was still dark, cold, and confusing.
We got the minis running and turned the lights on to see what we were doing, packed everything up and got in the que to get out of the place again.
More and more minis just kept turning up and eventually i reckon well over 2500 minis were all lined up ready to race to brighton. This turned from a mini run into a mini madness. It was a show with a run in the middle and another show at the end!
eventually we set off around 9am and instantly get stuck in a river of minis and other very angry traffic.
some minis instantly broke down and this was a common sight along the way but no mini was ever on its own!
as a group we had a few hiccups along the way but no real drama apart from edd jumping out the car for a piss as we got into brighton leaving me to also jump out and into the drivers seat.
Martin decided that while we were stuck in traffic he would have a play with his air siren, About 5 cars moved onto the hard shoulder and started looking for where it come from others just got really confussed, i think i weeed laughing at what had happened.
We make it to brighton. well two of us did.
tony got split up again by a mad transit van and lost us but eventually made it about 20mins after we got there.
After parking up we set off mini perving and shopping for bits.
i can say brighton is a little like blackpool but ALOT cleaner and doesnt smell of wee.
I lost track of time and before i knew it it was 5pm and people were leaving again. So we set off to the last hotel.
That night was spent in the best pub i think ive ever been in.
In the morning as we were packing up a farther n son were also doing the same in their mini. We got talking and their from burnley way. They stuck with us for a shot time but soon lost us on the motorway.
Unfortunatly on the way home we got stuck in 50mph roadworks on the m1 but i think "wheres tony" has never been said so much.
All in all a fantastic weekend and im deffinatly going on this one again. Maybe travel down to crystal palace on the friday night or early sat morning insead though. Id deffinatly come home on the monday though as it is such a long drive but well worth it!
ROJ.