Another VW Sunday

This afternoon we have once again met up with the lovely people of East Coast Air Cooled, for a meet at West Raynham. The sun was shining, and we were allowed this time to have photos taken next to other cool buildings on this old RAF base. Unfortunately the camera battery died just after arriving, so we had to make do with my mobile phone. I still think we got some great shots. 


Here are a few photos of the afternoon. 

Quirky VW Stuff

I can't think of anything else to blog about tonight, so I'm going to share some photos of some of the quirky features I've seen on or in VW campervans over the last few years. It makes me think we should be adding some quirky features to our van. We are slowly filling up the rear side window with stickers, and have added a few stickers and tin surf signs to the interior, but loving these great features we have seen at shows.

Weeble Fire Truck

Pepparami

Just Married Monkey

Bit of Stickerage

Ugly Doll

Roadrunner

Nodding Jesus

Rat for a rat look

Gone Surfing Beetle Sign

God Bless Us!

Monkey behind the jail bars

Another lovely Sunday

Today has been another lovely Sunday spent with my lovely husband. This afternoon we headed over to West Raynham, an old RAF base, that is now a regenerated village. We met up with other VW owners for a barbecue, auto-jumble sale, photo shoot, and general camper chat. It was a great turnout with thirteen vans and a beetle, all lining up outside the old buildings on the old base. As well as the usual people who attend these meets, there were a few new faces too, and some lovely vans that we hadn't seen before.

After the meet we headed over to Hunstanton in Norfolk, to enjoy fish and chips by the sea. This is where having the van is great as we can just pull up at the sea front, set up the table, and eat takeaway fish and chips on a plate with proper cutlery. Not that I have anything against eating chips out of the paper with a wooden fork, whilst sitting on a bench. Some of the best fish & chip takeaways I've had, have been eaten this way. Sometimes it's just nice to have a little luxury!
No trip to the seaside is complete without hot sugared doughnuts, so after dinner we headed off to find some. First though we stopped off at the arcade, as for me, no trip to the seaside is complete without pushing a few two-pence coins through machines in the arcade. Although I know that everything I win will go back into the machine, I seem to get great enjoyment from playing on them. What gives me more pleasure, is when my husband joins in too, as this is something he doesn't always do. I don't think he gets the same satisfaction from the two-penny falls that I do. I should bet if I was posting one pound coins into gun games it would be a different story! Tonight though, my husband did join me at the two-penny machines, and we had several bets on the horse racing game together too which reminded me of being younger as a lot of the modern arcades don't have these anymore.
Our evening was completed by sitting on the sea wall and eating hot doughnuts together. All in all, an inexpensive but enjoyable evening.

I feel I have been typing a little too much tonight, so I leave you now with some photos from today.

Too much caffeine, no editing and interesting prediction

When I first started blogging more than two years ago it was because I was having sleep issues, which at the time I put down to the stresses of wedding planning. After the wedding I was still having issues so I started the 'no caffeine after 5pm' rule. If you haven't noted the time already then I'll tell you its gone one in the morning and I'm very wide awake. I blame the coffee I had at 6pm and the malibu & coke I had after dinner. Of course it could also be because I've done little today or that is quite bright in the house tonight due to a full moon. So I have resorted to blogging to help tire me, and i've decided to try the ipad for this, which could be interesting as it lacks in editing features and its predictive text can be interesting at times. Having previously spent many hours on www.damnyouautocorrect.com, I am familiar with some of the interesting corrections iPad & iPhone can make.


This time last year, we were spending our last night in New York before heading down to Miami. Tonight we have been watching a DVD, and just relaxing together. It was nice to have a weekend with very little planned. Last night we went to the restaurant where we held our wedding reception. It was a treat from the in-laws, who gave us some money so that we could enjoy the fine cooking at this lovely place with a fantastic chef. As expected the food was exceptional and was the kind of meal you never want to finish. If we ever become rich we will eat there every Friday!


Tomorrow is another VW filled day with a meet up with the East Coast Air Cooled club, followed by fish & chips at the seaside, we may even go and spend some 2ps in the arcade.