Vanfest 2011 - Sept 9, 10, 11 - Great Malvern

Good news Scooby, we are washed and polished ready to go. I'm meeting Kiteman at the M4 services at J13 about 12.30.

Hey Irishman
We aim to get there a little earlier than that so we may just have the kettle on when you get there

You just love a party with an atmosphere, don't you Scoob?!

Have a terrific time folks - again sorry Max and I won't be with you. I look forward to receiving updates from Campo Braziliano throughout the weekend.

Tweets at the ready...

Scooby wrote:

Just finished packing Scooby for Vanfest
Our plans have changed yet again!
Have spoken to the organizers to move into Club Camping with you guys

Top Banana.

Have a great weekend everyone. Fingers crossed that the weather holds out for you all

Tallulah wrote:

Tweets at the ready...

Cool .... we like Tweets

Tilly
Thanks for the interesting and informative Vanfest report
The Danbury that you mentioned, but you were unable to see, must be the
<< 'Project 1' T2 >> that is alluded to on their website. I'm very curious now to see that 'novel interior'

Jason - when can we see some pictures ??

osg

The Danbury looked very cool, watched some of the rugby in it!!!

Came over to club camping but you were all out at the show, will catch up some time

Sorry we missed you.

Went today had a great day was welcomed on the Danbury stand, they had some fine examples. Met kiteman and have to say your bus looks good in pics but amazing for real. Was a good day spent far too much ( that's what you get for taking the other half lol )

Managed to resolve the issue I had with curtain ordered at vanwest in may.

Went for a good run up in to the hills after and sat and had a brew looking over the three counties and all the buses.

Looking forward to the next meet

Dilly

Great show, lots to see and do, English weather 'soggy bit' in the middle, fun had by all.

Good to see some of the crew again, a few new goodies purchased and ideas under development.

Thanks to all for welcoming my in-laws even though they weren't in a Brazi (or even a VW!), to the AA man for getting us some petrol for the generator, and a special thanks to Danbury, see for our service next month.

Project 1 looks awesome!

Nuff said.

Many thanks for flying the BraziBay flag folks. Glad you had fun.

I agree 100% with Bruce (Tilly). If we go as day visitors in future to Vanfest, we won't be going on the Friday as it was a bit of a rip off! There really were too many stands closed to warrant the price.

The best part was meeting up with those who'd already camped out, and it sounds like you had a good time.

We pulled up next to a one month old Brazi in the car park and had a good chat to the owner. I must get some forum cards from Tim next time I see him as I keep meeting new owners, telling them about the forum but have nothing to give them.

Until next year....Tony & Liz

Thanks for the nice comments on the Danbury 'Project 1' vehicle! Glad everyone who saw it enjoyed the experience Ill post some pics up later this week...

Great Show - Great Company - Good Times - FAB - will put a little report together later
Thanks for yours Tilly - some interesting points
We went to the Danbury stand early on Friday - had the full demo of the Project vehicle - awesome
Have pics which we shall hope to post tonight when back at home
Work getting in the way again !

jj123vw wrote:

Thanks for the nice comments on the Danbury 'Project 1' vehicle! Glad everyone who saw it enjoyed the experience Ill post some pics up later this week...

It was great to see the Danbury vehicles for real. They are fab! Simon at Danbury was very helpful and spent quite a bit of time chatting with us. We ended up saying we'd go for a T5 but on reflection my heart is with a Brazilian Bay

Tilly wrote:

Go with your heart!

Your head can always be persuaded but your heart can't!

It's the things you don't do in life (like buying a T2) that you regret the most!

I couldn't have put it better!

I got to vanfest in the end. I walked all over the show ground but could not find the camp. Where abouts were you ?

Hi Butten
We were just along from the entrance to the VWT2OC camping area and the adjacent shower block
On the map shown in the link below, at the bottom centre of the page, we were along the fence to the right roughly by the first disabled sign shown on the map in the VWT2OC area
Hope this helps - sorry you missed us

http://www.vanfest.org/images/stories/vanfest2011/new6/vanfest_map_2009.jpg?phpMyAdmin=680dcfb5fb1e559f9aa191fc0e242a04

Thanks, I must have got van fever blindness.

Tim

We had a great time, nice to meet Scooby and Tallullah, great spot for our first club pitch as well, close to the show and the event tent so we could listen to the music for free. Not so sure about the Michael jackson impersonator Saturday evening tho'?

Some great vehicles on display as usual, and I must say the Danbury Project 1 is awsome!!!! many thanks to Matt for letting Bailey sit inside and watch the huge TV, it really is a vehicle to see, just goes to show what can be done to a Brazibay!! It was getting some very positive comments from the 'die hard' dubbers as well. Sadly I didn't have my camera with me, and am waiting for my nephew to send me the pictures........

Hey guys - we have a problem loading pics this evening
Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon

Hey Guys - problem solved
As it's late only a few words and some pics - Scooby now tired
Well it was a good weekend some rain, some grey skies but some all important sun
Great Bays and Great Company but at the start . . .
Got there at 11.00am and took 30 mins to find our location
Fully set up within the hour - where is everyone!

Had lunch and looked around the show
The Danbury Project 1 vehicle was awesome - see pics below



Got back just before 3.00pm still no one
Then Kiteman and Irishman arrived - they also had trouble finding the location
Tallulah would follow on that evening
Here are some pics of the setup - right next to the showers - what luxury





Lilyvdub was camping the adjacent field in the VWT2OC area
Tilly and Roobarb popped over to see us on the Friday - they were day visitors - see earlier posts
Other Brazi Bays were around and Kiteman would investigat their Forum status in due course
We were close to the entertainment marque so we got the sounds for free
As dragons flew over head we sat around and chatted the evening away - with the odd drink or two

Saturday morning and time to walk around the show again
Here are a selection of pics which include some of the Show n Shine entrants and other campers we liked






One for you Peppa




On the way back to camp we took a pic of these two poles - useful in last pic of this post

Back at Camp Braziliano we had a quick Chilli dinner before going out to see SLADE that evening
The flag was still flying high the the strong winds all around

Enjoyed Slade very much - Michael Jacson Tribute Guy on before not so much
On Sunday after a full english breakfast at the site restuarant then it was off to see the last of the Show n Shine entrants before judging
Had a long chat with a nice couple who had a fabulous Eriba and Bay combination - awesome



Loved it
By lunchtime we were ready to leave the show.
Went back and packed up
Only three now left

Said our goodbyes and headed home via Malvern for a last look down on the show

Camp Braziliano was to the left of the pic by the single storey brick building to the side of the large white entertainment marques - the two poles were further to the right with the traders even further to the right and nearer the camera.
Enjoyed it all - hope this along with other posts helps to give a flavour to those who could not make it!

All looks good to me Scooby - and I see you picked up a new 'showplate.'