Sunday 8th January
Raid Tan Hill
Celebrated the New Year at Great Britain’s highest inn!
Sunday 8th January dawned damp and misty but the Lawnswood Arms once again opened up at 8.30 a.m. to host the start of the event and provide tea, coffee and bacon butties.
By 10 a.m. the car park was full and it was time for the convoys to leave on the 60 mile journey through the Yorkshire Dales National Park to Great Britain’s highest inn.
By 10 a.m. the car park was full and it was time for the convoys to leave on the 60 mile journey through the Yorkshire Dales National Park to Great Britain’s highest inn.
The journey to Hawes was uneventful except for a short detour to pass a flooded road at Buckden.
A twenty minute break in the Hawes car park warmed everybody up with beakers of hot mulled wine. Then it was off and over the Buttertubs, up Keld Bank and finally over the moor road to the Tan Hill Inn. For the first time in many a year there was not even a sprinkling of snow.
This year the barn seemed cosier than ever with the gas heaters going full blast and candles on all the tables. Everybody was soon tucking in to giant Yorkshire Puddings and watching 2CV videos and photos of all the cars en route that Steve Pepper had taken and managed to quickly get onto his PC and projector.
At 3.0 p.m. it was time to hand out certificates and stickers, draw the raffle and then it was time to go home .
Some thirty 2CVers stayed over on the Sunday night and were treated to a great evening of folk music, pop music, poetry and even a bit of music hall.
A twenty minute break in the Hawes car park warmed everybody up with beakers of hot mulled wine. Then it was off and over the Buttertubs, up Keld Bank and finally over the moor road to the Tan Hill Inn. For the first time in many a year there was not even a sprinkling of snow.
This year the barn seemed cosier than ever with the gas heaters going full blast and candles on all the tables. Everybody was soon tucking in to giant Yorkshire Puddings and watching 2CV videos and photos of all the cars en route that Steve Pepper had taken and managed to quickly get onto his PC and projector.
At 3.0 p.m. it was time to hand out certificates and stickers, draw the raffle and then it was time to go home .
Some thirty 2CVers stayed over on the Sunday night and were treated to a great evening of folk music, pop music, poetry and even a bit of music hall.
In all over eighty A series vehicles made it up to the UK’s highest pub plus a 600cc air cooled Trabant, an air cooled flat twin Ural motorcycle combination and several Citroen Bxs!!
The prize for the oldest vehicle went to Nigel Brown in his 1958 Bijou. The farthest travelled UK participants were Sarah and Richard Wilmot who came 350 miles from Somerset but the prize was won by Dominique Tournette who came all the way from St Germain du Corbeis near Alencon in France to clock up 530 miles, a Raid record.
The prize for the oldest vehicle went to Nigel Brown in his 1958 Bijou. The farthest travelled UK participants were Sarah and Richard Wilmot who came 350 miles from Somerset but the prize was won by Dominique Tournette who came all the way from St Germain du Corbeis near Alencon in France to clock up 530 miles, a Raid record.
Thanks to Tony Shields of 2CV City without whose generous financial support we would not be able to continue to keep Raid Tan Hill a completely free event and thanks to everybody who came and see you all again in January 2013, there may be snow!
Brian, leshiboux@ntlworld.com
Brian, leshiboux@ntlworld.com