Been away since friday lunch time at the LRCH 20th Jubileum
It was a holiday weekend here with both friday and monday being a holiday, trafic around Antwerp was a pain but the SATNav sugested an alternative route so we took that and had a good drive to the meeting point at Westdorpe and then a convoy with the Disco3 guys to the campsite.
Booking in

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Looks like you and the D3 guys had a worthwhile trip Ali.
I love offroad night drives, hilarious fun especially when your Defender or Series Landy has 1 candlepower of headlamps on each wing (my LED sidelights are brighter than my headlights on dip beam!)! Basher used to run some brilliant night drives in the Argyll Forest - made all the more exciting because even on the laid tracks you had to be really careful not to fall into huge potholes and dried up stream beds! Added excitement came after we had had a long dry spell like this weekend when if you drove too fast so much dust was set up that it was like driving in fog at night. Also you were likely to encounter wildlife on the forest roads and often they wouldn't move out of the way.................... 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Next day we had booked up the Historic Drive for the morning and Off Roading for the afternoon
The start was from the same pavillion and this time it was a thick book but no questions to answer. The theme was the invasion route taken by the Canadia Highland Light Infantry and following the progress they made during the second world war, It was some driving on paved roads and some on unpaved ones along the dykes and polders, the weather was scortching hot and we were glad of the air-co in the car as we made our way around the route. We read how they landed in their Buffalo amphibious landing craft and made their way inland and how the German gus were waiting for them, most of the items from the WW2 have been cleared away and onle along one dyke did we see pill boxes to guard the canal. we had lunch in Hoofdplaats and a leisurly drive back to the site and got ready for the afternoons off roading. The entrance to the offroad site was oposite the booking in hut and very close to where we were camped. After a bit of teasing from the stewards about taking the RRS around the course we headed out onto the tracks following Paul (Beaker) and with Nessie and the Dutch couple following along we got our first taste of offroading the TDV8 I had mounted my video camera on the roof ralil of the car so got some good footage of the car going round the track, I'm downloading it to the PC as I type this so should have a few bits up on youtube soon. We got lots of encourgement and useful tips and we made it round the blue route without incident.
Beaker through the trees

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Tim in Scotland wrote:

Looks like you and the D3 guys had a worthwhile trip Ali.
I love offroad night drives, hilarious fun especially when your Defender or Series Landy has 1 candlepower of headlamps on each wing <snip>..............

Yeah I used all the light I could, it was our first time out on something like this so it was all new to us, Marie got into the hang of navigating and I got more adept at resetting the trip meter
We didn't have too much wild life just a lot of big defenders going every which way but right  Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
Clan Cameron

Clip of one of the D3 crew Beaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QrIoDJ3FWw Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
Clan Cameron

another short clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cHy4Y2k_V0 Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
Clan Cameron