Me and my brother Michael spent an enjoyable day doing the EDMC scenic tour in Michael’s Peugeot 205 GTi. The tour started from Ruddington Transport Heritage Centre with a stop at Rutland Water Whitwell car Park for lunch and finished back at the Transport Heritage Centre. We signed on in the cafe at the Transport Heritage Centre and enjoyed a breakfast there. We were car 2 and started the event at 10:02.
Patrick had fitted the rally Terratip in Michael’s car to help us with following the road book, but when we set off we realised it wasn’t working properly as the milage was not counting up. We downloaded a rally trip meter app onto my phone which got us through the first leg. The first leg of the event took us through some lovely countryside and up roads we would probably never think to go up normally. The organisers had included an information sheet with interesting facts about some of the places we would pass by which was a great idea!
At the lunch halt we had a picnic lunch and a coffee from the cafe. We downloaded the instructions for the Terratrip and realised that it hadn’t been working because the trip wasn’t in GPS mode. Once we reset it to GPS mode it worked fine!
We followed the route for leg two back to the Transport Heritage Centre and arrived back in plenty of time to look at some of the trains and buses on display. We finished the day with a nice meal in the cafe. Thank you to Charlie, Steve and Mark from EDMC for organising a great event.