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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby nicowalker1 » Mon 24.08.2009, 18:35

Arrived home,
A great weekend was had by all.
Friday, the longest journey ive ever made to north wales approx 5 hours. Normally 1 1/2.
Was a great drive trhough nice scenary.
met up with Tony and Ben south of chester and proceeded to Conwy.
Had a nice strole around Conwy when we all finally made it into the same car park. Then we stocked up on some fine ales from one of my favourite shops.
After some stunning chips and gravy we headed onto the campsite, Tony leading the was as he knew a good route through.
All wsa going well till Shaun(aka boy racer) decided to go in chase of a really really high performance car... well a standard megane sport... :roll:
after a few miles we all caught up again, or so we thought.... along came a clio v6, once again Boy Racer Shaun went in pursuit :roll: (again) just at this point Tony indicated for our exit, Shaun failled to notice and continued at warp speed, missing the turning. It must be noted that even the clio V6 came off with the rest of us.
We all pulled into a laybye just of the dual carraigeway scratched our heads and came up with a plan. long story involving elans scouting the whole area. :roll: AGAIN!!!
We eventually came together and made it to camp pitched our tents and had our beer and food.

Saturday

Gave the cars a quick once over to make then sparkly for photos, and procced the evo triangle. some superb driving, with lots of photos, stunning backdrops of mountains and gleaming cars.
A quick scout of penryn castle which was breath taking.

Sunday

10 am was karting, this showed up the true boy racers amongst us... I was admittedly the slowest, with rip in 3rd then aguanbly Shaun and Graham for 1st as Shaun had the fastest lap but Graham would probably have had a better over all average.
We the went up to Caernarfon to the Black boy inn to watch the F1. The food and beer was fantastic even if we all were shattered due to the grueling track session.
Then it was onto Llandudno for a coule of games of Bowling, the first game Shaun came out on top with Graham and rips behind and me and Kim bumping up the bottom. the second game went reverse with myself taking a suprise victory.
lots of alcohol and Shauns super cider was consumed not letting the tropcial storm going on outside.


A superb weekend thanks from me and Kim
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby tte200 » Mon 24.08.2009, 18:59

nicowalker1 wrote:Arrived home,
A great weekend was had by all.
Friday, the longest journey ive ever made to north wales approx 5 hours. Normally 1 1/2.
Was a great drive trhough nice scenary.
met up with Tony and Ben south of chester and proceeded to Conwy.
Had a nice strole around Conwy when we all finally made it into the same car park. Then we stocked up on some fine ales from one of my favourite shops.
After some stunning chips and gravy we headed onto the campsite, Tony leading the was as he knew a good route through.
All wsa going well till Shaun(aka boy racer) decided to go in chase of a really really high performance car... well a standard megane sport... :roll:
after a few miles we all caught up again, or so we thought.... along came a clio v6, once again Boy Racer Shaun went in pursuit :roll: (again) just at this point Tony indicated for our exit, Shaun failled to notice and continued at warp speed, missing the turning. It must be noted that even the clio V6 came off with the rest of us.
We all pulled into a laybye just of the dual carraigeway scratched our heads and came up with a plan. long story involving elans scouting the whole area. :roll: AGAIN!!!
We eventually came together and made it to camp pitched our tents and had our beer and food.

Saturday

Gave the cars a quick once over to make then sparkly for photos, and procced the evo triangle. some superb driving, with lots of photos, stunning backdrops of mountains and gleaming cars.
A quick scout of penryn castle which was breath taking.

Sunday

10 am was karting, this showed up the true boy racers amongst us... I was admittedly the slowest, with rip in 3rd then aguanbly Shaun and Graham for 1st as Shaun had the fastest lap but Graham would probably have had a better over all average.
We the went up to Caernarfon to the Black boy inn to watch the F1. The food and beer was fantastic even if we all were shattered due to the grueling track session.
Then it was onto Llandudno for a coule of games of Bowling, the first game Shaun came out on top with Graham and rips behind and me and Kim bumping up the bottom. the second game went reverse with myself taking a suprise victory.
lots of alcohol and Shauns super cider was consumed not letting the tropcial storm going on outside.


A superb weekend thanks from me and Kim



Must agree was a superb weekend will send on what few photos we have, sounds like the rest of the weekend went well. But must ask who Tony is sounds like a great guy :D

hopefully see you all again soon Terry and Ben
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby nicowalker1 » Mon 24.08.2009, 22:46

sorry mate its been a very very long day, im out of it....
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby tte200 » Tue 25.08.2009, 07:12

nicowalker1 wrote:sorry mate its been a very very long day, im out of it....


it was me that was getting everyones name wrong all weekend, its only now i think i know who is who.....
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby rip » Tue 25.08.2009, 17:15

I can't believe how quickly the weekend passed.
It was good to meet up with some friends again, & also meet new ones. Terry & Ben: I hope we've not put you off :lol:
I got home at 8 last night & am still tired now.

Thanks especially to Nick (& possibly also Kim) for arranging it.
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby ShaunM » Tue 25.08.2009, 19:09

What an awesome 4 days!

Firstly a HUGE thanks for Nick for organising a very packed schedule of plaes to visit and things to see. Here's my memories from the trip:

Thursday, drive up to Huddersfield hood up all the way and without a hitch except for my phone/gps giving up 50 yards from Nick's house and me driving past! I was treated to a huge bowl of delicious chilli (thanks Nick's mum!) with sour cream (thanks Kim!) and a beer (thanks Nick!) whilst hearing of Nick's plans for the coming days. I didn't think I would sleep as I was so excited, but I drifted off to a lovely, comfortable sleep...

Friday, after a milkshake at MacDonalds we went for a great drive through snake pass visiting a pub along the way with pool lessons from Graham and Iain and taking a few pics for (hopefully) next year's calendar. After a special toilet break for Kim :wink: we negotiated some VERY narrow lanes and finally met up with Terry and Ben and then headed on to Conwy for some delicious chips by the seaside with the sun shining. Leaving Conwy with admiring glances from pedestrians along the way, we made our way to the campsite which is where I decided to make my own little detour :oops:

After a rather sheepish Shaun finally joined the others, and we made our was to the campsite which was very good with a friendly owner, trees all around to shelter from the breeze and super-hot running water. After pitching the tents, we grabbed supplies and had a BBQ in the sunshine, all totally awestruck by the excellent weather on our first day.

Saturday was another day of excellent weather and the drive around the Evo Triangle was incredible with great views and more potential calendar photos. After stopping for a special photo at Capel Curig, we had a great lunch at ??????, wandering round for a while and soaking up more sun and having a lovely Ice Cream courtesy of Iain. We had another long drive back to the campsite (via one of the places where I took my own detour the day before :oops:) and had a walk around and inside the incredible Penryn Castle and it's Bog Gardens. Saturday was Nick's Supreme Pasta Night and it was another good night around the campfire.

Sunday, we woke to cloudy skies but it didn't matter due to another great piece of planning by Nick - we went indoor Karting. I wasn't looking forward to the karting to be honest, but once on track I, like everyone else, had a great time - it was great fun and little Ben was watching on eagerly - only a couple more years before he's on there lapping us (which is probably what he was dreaming about on the way home) It was good to watch the Grand Prix in the Blue Bo(u)y, talking through our karting "best moments" and having a bite to eat while outside proper Welsh weather was lashing down. In the afternoon we fought to keep awake through a couple of games of bowling and then headed off to Llandudno and went for a drive along the mountain pass toll road (which only Nick and Kim got charged for :cry: )

Sunday night we got a real taste of the Welsh weather with more than one tent less-than water tight, but mine definitely the worst - thank goodness the wheel-barrow of wood was in my "10-second" fishing bivvy, otherwise it would have blown away! The weather may have been bad outside, but we sipped cocktails and played Top Gear Top Trumps and drank Turbo Cider which caused people to fell alseep (mid-sentence). Thanks to Nick and Kim, I had a dry night in their tent instead of my "swimming pool" bivvy.

Monday, the rain had gone (as prediced by Iain) and we were treated to sunshine on the last day, going our seperate ways after a couple of hours in Llandudno and bargain-priced pizza hut.

My 850 mile trip ended with a lovely sun-set and clear roads along the A17/A47, with the icing on the cake watching the Sutton Bridge at Kings Lynn turning to let a Norfolk Wherry Boat through. I arrive home at 8.45pm, totally shattered, with a huge smile on my face after an incredible weekend.

Thanks to everyone for a great time, definitely an annual trip as far as I'm concerned. With so many things that we simply didn't have time to see/do this time round, I'm looking forward to doing some of them next year!
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby tte200 » Tue 25.08.2009, 20:39

rip wrote:I can't believe how quickly the weekend passed.
It was good to meet up with some friends again, & also meet new ones. Terry & Ben: I hope we've not put you off :lol:
I got home at 8 last night & am still tired now.

Thanks especially to Nick (& possibly also Kim) for arranging it.

Must agree weekend passed far to quickly, thanks for the ice creams and you most definitely have not put me and Ben off, Ben has not stopped going on about every one and there cars, look forward to meeting up with you all again :D
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby G UK » Wed 26.08.2009, 17:51

Great weekend guys, enjoyed every minute of it.

Thanks to rip for going out of the way for the pax ride to allow me to make it and hopefully I'll have a car of my own to go in next time. As a bonus my videos have also come out and now I've just got to think how to distribute them!?!
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby ShaunM » Wed 26.08.2009, 20:01

Pics (minus the ones I have saved as 2010 Calendar hopefulls).

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 ... c974d29d4c

Just to add: 1. Thanks to Graham for the beers to give us the "courage" to try the cider 2. Nick's pasta was soooooo good, we had it 2 days in a row! :P
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby G UK » Thu 27.08.2009, 21:15

MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Facebook will upload videos upto 1GB which will let me upload my videos, I still may torrent them however if I ever get around to it. I'll post links when they are ready.

Sods law however means that now my car camera mount has finally arrived, two months late and a few days behind needing it for this trip. I think my handheld attempts were pretty good however!!
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby G UK » Thu 27.08.2009, 22:13

Try these files.

Instructions:

1) Download the file
2) Rename the file as a .torrent rather than a .doc (Because the forum software blocks .torrent files :twisted: )
3) Open the file in a bitorrent client (I reccomend utorrent)
4) When the file has finished downloading leave the file to seed (upload to others, done by leaving utorrent open when you are using the computer) for the next few days as others may want to view it and this is how bitorrent works. In the meantime open it and enjoy (requires an HD h.264 codec aka quicktime)

Edit: I cant believe .txt files are blocked and Facebook upload is a sod which means I'll have to do that next week when I am off work if I remember!!
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby nicowalker1 » Fri 28.08.2009, 17:10

WOW thats easier than i thought it would be shame they are downloading at an incredible 6kbs...
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby G UK » Fri 28.08.2009, 17:21

nicowalker1 wrote:WOW thats easier than i thought it would be shame they are downloading at an incredible 6kbs...


Thats because I'm the only one uploading at the moment and you are downloading them all at once therefore spreading my bandwidth over each download, if a handful of people start downloading the speeds increase quite a bit.

Edit: I just derestricted the upload meaning your speeds should have now incresed slightly
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby nicowalker1 » Fri 28.08.2009, 17:28

cheers graham, i now have a few at 11kbs :D looking forward to seeing them!!!
ill leave torrent open over the weekend so others should get a bit quicker.
any news on the turbo?
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby G UK » Fri 28.08.2009, 17:31

Unfortunately not, I'm not expecting them to respond for the next few days though.
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby nicowalker1 » Sat 29.08.2009, 09:18

did you manage to get any footage of the tunnels?m i want see what my pecco sounds like from behind...
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby ShaunM » Sat 29.08.2009, 20:55

nicowalker1 wrote:did you manage to get any footage of the tunnels?m i want see what my pecco sounds like from behind...


Like a Chavvy Corsa... :smt044

Graham, how big are the video files?
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby nicowalker1 » Sun 30.08.2009, 15:54

ouch Shaun very ouch!!!

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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby ShaunM » Sun 30.08.2009, 18:13

I'm only jealous!
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Re: Camping 21st-24th August

Postby G UK » Sun 30.08.2009, 21:49

nicowalker1 wrote:did you manage to get any footage of the tunnels?m i want see what my pecco sounds like from behind...


Unfortunately not, I should have done really though.

ShaunM wrote:Graham, how big are the video files?


Smallest is 23MB all the way up to 656MB as they are all in HD.
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