Come rain or shine we were determined to enjoy the wonderful roads and magnificent scenery that Derbyshire offers even in mid-October. Lunch at the on-site Red Lion pub and a tour of the National Tramway Museum at Crich on Friday 12th kicked off our long weekend. Stalwarts of our Autumn trips welcomed new comers and their lovely white Giulia Spider bought in Italy. Santo’s Farm Hotel at Higham was our was very comfortable base with most congenial and helpful service from all the staff despite our coinciding with a wedding party on the first night and a Diamond wedding celebrations on the second. Rain cleared on Saturday and the wind abated in the afternoon to allow us some magnificent driving to end the day’s happy peregrinations.
Sunday was heavy rain to start and half our number had decided to head for home. The rest pressed intrepidly on to a delightful lunch at the Izaak Walton Hotel before going our separate ways.
Next year we are off to the Lake District.
The Giulietta Register UK visited Brugge in Belgium and Bergen op Zoom in The Netherlands on the way to the exciting Spettacolo Sportivo Alfa Romeo event at the Zandvoort Circuit in The Netherlands. Thanks to the event organisers, SCARB, and to all our good friends in the Dutch Alfa Romeo Giulietta Club for such a warm welcome and true hospitality during our visit, especially the wonderful Louwmann Museum tour and our drive together through the beautiful Green Heart of Holland. It was great fun and we look forward to welcoming you all in the UK sometime soon.
The event, held over two days is a wonderful combination of groups of aircraft and car enthusiasts, numbers are not overwhelming, and many dressed in period fashions or military uniforms complete with period picnic accoutrements. It is all quite relaxed with a refreshing lack of the hungry commercialism now to the fore in some other events.
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Our trip to Aix les Bain in the foothills of the French Alps combined superb driving routes with a relaxed itinerary - both made even more enjoyable by warm sunny weather for almost the whole week. We were 19 people, including two couples from the USA, driving in ten cars (including a late model MGF which managed to keep up most of the time). We crossed from UK into France by train from Folkstone on 7 June, returning from Calais on 14 June.
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