AA meeting

Weds 19th Oct; meet up with our friends Adam & Angela at the Oxford on Avon restaurant in Christchurch. The last time C saw Adam & Angela was outside Shanks' office with 'Hugo' the Land Rover prior to their their overland expedition across Europe, Asia and quick hop to NZ to see the final instalment of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. That was February 2003 (hope that's right!) and I followed their progress with wonder, they had a great website up with pictures to leave you in awe (sadly offline now). A&A had shipped their S1 and Disco from Auckland to Chch for a rally of Land Rovers that would drive from Oxford (about 40 clicks nw of Chch) to Cambridge (Hamilton/Auckland area) to commemorate some Oxbridge event but a good excuse for an outing anyway. With getting kids fed and to bed the evening was all to short, but glad to meet up A&A and meet some new people in the rally.

Thurs 20th Oct; Vanessa at work (in the bakers... I'll let her elucidate) kids at school, I drive over to Oxford to see the merry band of Land Rovers off. I'm not disapointed; all you'd expect at a LR meet oil and coolant leaks included...stereotypes aside there is a fantastic array of motors there and I'm envious of their trip. Said goodbye to Adam & Angela, hopefully will get to see them before too long (their S1 is at the far right, and the Disco is 2nd from left at the back).