Our last VW Event in UK – the Brighton Breeze

We arrived at the Friday night campsite mid-afternoon and soon set up camp, which was lucky as it wasn’t long afterwards that we sat and watched others erect tents etc. in the pouring rain – poor sods.  The night was so miserable that it called for an early night in bed with our alarm set for a wakeup call.

Saturday seen the sun strain through the cloudy sky and we were awaken not by our alarm, but by all the dubs around us moving their vehicles to the cruise line up – about 1 ¼ hrs BEFORE the cruise.  So we jumped up, threw everything into Mildred and joined the crowds like sheep.

It was lucky that during our wait we could get a bacon bap and coffee at the nearby food tent.  Then we were off for a 80km odd cruise down to Brighton.  As we got closer the weather got better making for a lovely day to wander about looking at both all the vehicles (not sure on the exact count by approx. 1200) and trade stalls (Nope I didn’t buy anything!  - as buying something later the event online DOES NOT count).

The day speed by with so much to see, in fact the planned visit to Brighton shops didn’t eventuate as time did not allow, the most we got was a lovely coffee at a café.

All sorts of VW’s were on display, by far the majority would be kombis, and then mainly split screens.  Some were definitely straight off the resto block, others ratted to the max.

After the awards ceremony, we headed to the nearby racecourse to camp and party the night away.  A great band was playing in the bar and the place was very crowded (it colded down remarkably when the sunset making the bar the warmest and favourite spot to be).

The Splitscreen Club UK treated us very well, making us most welcome, we even got a special mention in their booklet.

Now we are back in Densole, it was to be one night, but at the pub last night we were talked into another night with the promise of a very cool '67 VW to look at and a home cooked proper English dinner.