how was your gathering?

Best event of the year!

Thanks to all the organisers that made it such a good weekend.

When are the tickets on sale for next year?

this was my second time, I'm not overly sociable/confident at meeting "strangers" think last year i spoke to 3 people all day.
this year was determined to get to know more peeps,camped the weekend, travelled down with KFW and Roaulmoat on friday.
i was the gimp saying helloo and handing out glow sticks... my cunning plan was if i saw some one without a glow stick... i hadnt said hi, would get their name and that way would meet more people .. worked well to satrt with... then i met john smiths and some one introduced me to skittle/vodka chilli/napalm smells all nice like its going to be your friend... but then it turns on ya and savages your throat.... then it moves on to play with the next person... by the time it comes back round forget how bad it is, ooohh it smells nice, swiiig....arghhhh.
anyhow, met a lot of ace peeps... but after the booze, woke up sunday and couldnt remember who was who so was gonna have to start all over on saturday!
saturday was a lot calmer, recovery position out side my tent all morning lashing coffees down
great time later on, met Alex and Hannah from NZ, loadsa others... spent a while with , and I'm really sorry... cant remember ya name, bloke with the satin brown van that was being painted, funny Beard, cigars and pith hat!!! sound chap ,Tigran/boris other beardy bloke ermm... and kfw drin king beers and eating crisps till the early hours.
met bladerunner and phil 2002gimp, good nosey round the van, which ive decided i need. sorry to hear ya had to rush back, really hope all is ok and not to much damage/loss
and a big hello to every one else, this is the highlight of my year, sad, i know but there ya go
will sort my photos later.. got em on th ecomputer and most look pants

if anyone managed to get any decent pics of my celica would really appreciate seeing them.
thanks to all the organisers, i love you all!
be back next year... hopefully with some sorta van as well

Our 1st gathering with the Kamei Golf and it was an amazing experience, all the team involved did a fantastic job and the hospitality was spot on, food and drink was priced well compared to some shows we have been too.

Thanks to Chris Eyre above for keeping an eye on the safety running of our Golf and being there to see to any problems with her, Cheers Chris & yes your car went like sh*t off a shovel when you took me out for a run :-)

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Had some great feedback for our Golf from people :-)

Amazing day and cars, can't wait till the next one comes around again.

Haaa me too! RR peeps are super friendly though.

Where's my glo stick? I feel all left out now. :-(

;D One of the highlights of Sunday was sitting at the top of the hill and watching you go past with your kids waving and absolutely beaming in the back. Fun for all the family

This was my first Gathering and it was awesome. Watching a 24-litre, 650bhp Bentley smoke the tyres up the hill, and then watching a, erm, Nissan Prairie with the exhaust sticking out of the window and a Don Corleone horn was an experience that I don't think can be beaten.
Until next year maybe

i was really looking forward to it as ive never been before but I'm afraid i was a little underwhelmed,i feel like i missed something that everyone else got,i did only go on the sunday which appears to be my downfall as it sounds like the camping is the peak of the event,i enjoyed driving there as some of the twisty roads were lovely but I'm afraid i probably wont make the trip again,sorry to be negative

I cannot convey how much they enjoyed it this year. Even if I did get a bit short tempered with them a couple of times (I think mostly due to the early start and lots of queing) but that was short lived once we'd been through the drivers briefing

One thing I've learned, to get the most out of these kind of events when you take your kids, is to involve them as much as they want to be involved. If they want to help you with the car, let them. It oly has to be a little thing, but if they think they're helping they feel a whole lot more a part of it
As anyone who's read my Vitesse thread knows, I get my kids as involved as much a possible, and I believe it paid dividends yesterday. They loved the hillclimb, that really was the icing on the cake for them as they'd been begging me to take them up the hill since they saw people doing it last year!

So, again, MASSIVE thanks to all who organised the show, the paddock and everything else that goes on behind the scenes that we didn't see.

Roll on the RRG'13!

Absolutely gutted I didn't make it this year - Golf has been off of the road the past year and I really wanted to aim to have it done for the RRG. Alas it was not quite finished in time.

Glad to hear everyone had a great day. I was so grumpy on Sunday haha, half of me wants to look at all the pics and the other half not!

Next year! Bring on RRG '13

Superb venue, superb cars and superb people

Thanks to all involved in it's organisation. Next time I'll be driving up that hill rather than just watching.