Sunday, October 4, 2009

Goodwood Revival 2009

The Goodwood Estate hosts a Revival event that is well attended each year by classic race cars from across Europe. By flying in the day before the event, Jules.com, his father and I had free reign to wander around the paddock while the car owners prepared their classic racers, including Maseratis, Astons and Lotus.

People dress in period clothing and everything at the race track is from the middle of last century - right down to the fire vehicles. I've never previously been instructed to taxi to a stop 'next to the Hurricane'.

Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth, over the Naval dockyards;

This replica of the first plane to do so crossed the Channel a few weeks earlier to commemorate the centenary of Bleriot's achievement.


"Is growth progress?"
Jules tests regressive technology;





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