DAY OUT: Chipping Camden / British Motor Museum

Leaving home around 9AM we got to Chipping Camden about 10:35 and spent a pleasant hour walking around the village before heading to the Eight Bells pub for lunch. We had a lovely meal (chicken pie for me, lamb for Rose) and shared a magnificent white chocolate cheesecake with mango coulis - seriously good pud!

From here we headed back towards home, stopping off at the British Motor Musem for a couple of hours.

There were some very cool cars here, including the Rolls Royce Phantom, Mark Webber's Jaguar F1 car and a Lancia Delta (in the CAR S.O.S. TV show exhibition, strangely), but there was also a lot of stuff that we weren't that interested in like some of the very old cars and some of the cars which are to recent to be interesting but are being stored now and will become relevant in twenty years or so. Even so there was enough to make the visit worthwhile.

JAGUAR XJR15

Other highlights included two Jaguar XJ220s, a Jaguar XJR15, Lady Diana's E-Type Jaguar, a polished aluminium Jaguar XJ6, the Queen Mother's Jaguar limousine, and a lot of the recent Jaguar cars found in the 'Jaguar Collection' next door in the newest building. Also several Le Mans style sport cars, TR7s, a McLaren MP4-12, and a very impressive 1985 MGB prototype called the E-XE.

Indeed there was a surprising number of concept cars on show, including a sort of hatchback TR7, which was a bit odd looking.

All in all it was well worth a visit, but I think my overall favourite of the whole exhibition was the fifth car we saw - the utterly ridiculous Rolls Royce Phantom. So big, so heavy and £250,000 to boot... brilliantly bonkers!