National Motorhome Show Peterborough 20-24 April 17

£5 a pint - yes £5 A PINT! That's what the robbing barstewards at Peterborough were charging. It's some dodgy aircraft hangar in the middle of a Fen, not the Savoy Grill, for goodness sake.

St George's Day

Anyway, enough of the ranting about greedy bar owners, more about the show. We arrived on Thursday via Rockingham Cars, the main Fiat Dealer in Corby, who very kindly and efficiently fixed the irritating squeaking rear suspension. We glided into Peterboring like a Rolls Royce, eventually finding the Motorhome Fun section and marshalled into our spot for the weekend.

  

Sold - at £145k!

The weather was fine, there was no mud as per previous years, we were welcomed by our dealers, Becks, who had a stand at the show and we had a great few days just wandering around, chatting to friends old and new (even a very nice chap we met at the Fiat dealers and a couple of season ticket holders at Quins), boozing, partying and generally relaxing. We weren't tempted by too much apart from some new microfibre towels and an electric grill.

As for the Warners provided entertainment, The Blues Brothers were fantastic, the Sixties band equally great, Jethro was mildly amusing 20 years ago but the 20 year old jokes are now just sad and the so called famous X Factor (or whatever crap talent show it is)  singer was absolutely appalling. We are definitely taking our own booze next year though.

Hmmm - I wouldn't want those monkeys on my roof