We arrived at the Norfolk Showground at around 4pm. We hadn't had too much of a delay on the motorways up to the Dartford Tunnel.
It took a while to get off the A2 onto the tunnel approach road. Not helped by a truck driver blocking the outside lane for over 640 yards to the merge point. Probably patted himself on the back. Sadly, just a wanker.
One on site we were directed by the excellent marshalls to our space on the green field.
The show didn't officially start until Friday but camping was available from 8am Thursday. It looks that in the 8 hours before we arrived thousands took up the option to arrive. I'm not kidding. There are hundreds upon hundreds of motorhomes and campervans, plus wobble-box owners.
The theme for the weekend is Rock and Roll. There are two venues. One in the big top circus tent and the other one the events centre. Only the top of the bill eventually on Saturday evening has an additional cost.
The cost of the rally with EHU was £140 for four nights camping. It would be cheaper to not have EHU but we aren't that confident about our off-grid credentials!!
We have solar and we do have the small power bank.
Over the three days of the show itself we went into the show area a few times. Friday and Saturday it was hovering around 28°C so not really dog weather, nor walking about in the sun weather for us senior citizens!!
We made a few purchases but nothing major.
We did buy the Flexi-Shades that attach to the front of the Fiamma roll out awning. They are in the photo stream below! They have a beading along the top that slides into a matching groove on the roll out. We bought two but with a 4m awning three might have given more coverage
Today, Sunday, we had a quick visit as we wanted to buy a fire extinguisher. But we couldn't find where we had seen them. It started off grey and overcast. Hurrah!
Then heated up to around 25°C!
During the night the wind had got up. The Fiamma was out and also pegged and the windstraps deployed it was flapping and making a lot of noise. We were worried it might get damaged so at 6.20am we were out taking the Flexi-Shades off and rolling it in... As a result we got up late.
Over the course of the day people have begun to pack up and leave. Of course, the exhibitors began packing up and the show motorhomes and campers began to leave.
We saw quite a few vans we liked the look of. We spoke to lots of other rallyists and day visitors.
I guess if you have a blank sheet and a van of your choice you could choose exactly what you would want. Only a couple of the vans matched most of our needs.
We leave tomorrow and head south. We have to be off site by noon. We have arranged to go to Snape Maltings again to meet Claire's sister for lunch etc.
We are booked into the Caravan Club certificated location (CL) at Waterpump near Badingham in Suffolk tomorrow night. We then go straight home from there.
Would we do one of these show/events again? I think we would.
Next time though we need to get a flag and a pole to run it up!
Photos taken across the weekend:
Flexi-Shades in place
Oddly is seems that the flag of the Confederate States is very popular. I have no idea why.
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