Re: [EVENT] Rising Sun Japanese Car Show, [9/10th May 2009]
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 12:05 pmThanks Grace, it was great to meet everyone and thanks for a very warm welcome.
I thought the whole thing was excellent, I enjoyed the drive, (yes it was tiring at the ends of the journeys seeing as out of 72 hours we had 8 hours sleep but with roads like that it flew!)all the ways across Ireland, Wales, and England. But poor Jamie got his glasses eaten by my glove box! But from the stories he was telling thats not the worst thing thats ever happened him, I have definetaly damaged at least 2 internal organs from the severity of laughter!!
The ferry was class, Bernard tried getting a vid of the sun rising on the journey back but we had to get back to the cars less than 5 mins before it broke the horizon.
The B+B we stayed in and the whole village was amazing, seriously scenic, and great craic in the pub. And we even drank pints of bitter to try to mix in. We ate in the pub in the day and it was a fabulous meal! I wont go into the cost of stuff cause it would depress everyone, we are serioulsy getting rode here!!
Lincoln town is a stunning place, old quarter and cathedral there, really beautiful!
The show was excellent, I got loads of pics but will load them up later if thats all right, think I had about 200 altogether. The standard of cars was great, the amount of FTO's, Evos, Scooby's, Type R's, Skylines, GTO's, Supras, everything there! Even an NSX, made my day that one! Oh, and the marshall in the Punto trying to chase 2 Scooby's who drifted out the grass onto the road, (I might add that that was the closest that came anywhere near 'messing' and they were well away from anyone but were still reprimanded!), thought it was funny to see that. The whole organisation of the event was excellent, its an eye opener to whats out there, and how these things can go ahead with no messing, no crap, and just good fun.
Lots of people looking at our tax discs wondering where they were from, I think we were close to being the only Irish there, def on display anyway.
And of course a massive thanks to the gang at FTOOC, Mitsiclub, and Clan-Japan who we chatted to, had a laugh with, give us tips and advice, let us sit in their cars, shared their experiences, and were a very welcoming, enthusiastic, and all round, top crew!
(Even though we did start to park in front of their tents at 5.30 in the morning!)
Big thanks to the lads who came along, Bernard, Colm, Jamie, and Seanie, they made the whole weekend full of laughs and made what was a very long drive seem like a trip down the road.
I would definately be up for this again, when I return from my travels, and would say to anyone, its worth doing once at least, something about driving in a different country with your own car.
Thanks again to all involved.
Now, I'm of to bed!
I thought the whole thing was excellent, I enjoyed the drive, (yes it was tiring at the ends of the journeys seeing as out of 72 hours we had 8 hours sleep but with roads like that it flew!)all the ways across Ireland, Wales, and England. But poor Jamie got his glasses eaten by my glove box! But from the stories he was telling thats not the worst thing thats ever happened him, I have definetaly damaged at least 2 internal organs from the severity of laughter!!
The ferry was class, Bernard tried getting a vid of the sun rising on the journey back but we had to get back to the cars less than 5 mins before it broke the horizon.
The B+B we stayed in and the whole village was amazing, seriously scenic, and great craic in the pub. And we even drank pints of bitter to try to mix in. We ate in the pub in the day and it was a fabulous meal! I wont go into the cost of stuff cause it would depress everyone, we are serioulsy getting rode here!!
Lincoln town is a stunning place, old quarter and cathedral there, really beautiful!
The show was excellent, I got loads of pics but will load them up later if thats all right, think I had about 200 altogether. The standard of cars was great, the amount of FTO's, Evos, Scooby's, Type R's, Skylines, GTO's, Supras, everything there! Even an NSX, made my day that one! Oh, and the marshall in the Punto trying to chase 2 Scooby's who drifted out the grass onto the road, (I might add that that was the closest that came anywhere near 'messing' and they were well away from anyone but were still reprimanded!), thought it was funny to see that. The whole organisation of the event was excellent, its an eye opener to whats out there, and how these things can go ahead with no messing, no crap, and just good fun.
Lots of people looking at our tax discs wondering where they were from, I think we were close to being the only Irish there, def on display anyway.
And of course a massive thanks to the gang at FTOOC, Mitsiclub, and Clan-Japan who we chatted to, had a laugh with, give us tips and advice, let us sit in their cars, shared their experiences, and were a very welcoming, enthusiastic, and all round, top crew!
(Even though we did start to park in front of their tents at 5.30 in the morning!) Big thanks to the lads who came along, Bernard, Colm, Jamie, and Seanie, they made the whole weekend full of laughs and made what was a very long drive seem like a trip down the road.
I would definately be up for this again, when I return from my travels, and would say to anyone, its worth doing once at least, something about driving in a different country with your own car.
Thanks again to all involved.
Now, I'm of to bed!
