Popped over briefly last night where I was gutted to see the H&S bods had put paid to the promised Lake Jump! But the improvised Lake Ride was still a bit of fun…
Popped back today for the day with my GF. On the whole enjoyed ourselves, it’s good to see some decent trade presence for once, Jez Avery was doing a good job of keeping the kids entertained, the queue for the airbag (wish I’d taken a bike now!) never seemed to deplete, and it was good to catch up with a few people I hadn’t seen in a while.
But seriously… The catering!!! Not only did the girl serving me try to overcharge me quite considerably (I heard her try it quite a few times actually, seemingly so it worked sometimes too, I was tight enough to work out what I owed before ordering!), but a burger van, a pork roll van and a donut van! I’m guessing the vegetarian option was a portion of chips?!?! Staggeringly woeful… And I like a burger and chips (good ones mind, which these weren’t, in fact I’d hasten to say the worst ever eaten!). I was at a motorbike event recently (and motorcyclists really are 90% middle aged men with a belly, where actually a good proportion of cyclists are actually fit and healthy people) and they had all sorts of healthy and alternative choices for food. OK, the queue for the burger van was half a mile long, but if you wanted Jamaican, or Thai, or noodles, or a salad, you could get served straightaway, and there was lots of other offerings (including proper vegetarian options and even vegan) too… If I’d paid to camp for 3 days and the only food offerings were whatever I’d brought with me, or the 3 offerings here… I’d have gone home!
Overall great to see people having fun on Bikes again in Eastnor, even if it did seem rather less busy than I was expecting, but some lessons to be learnt if it’s going to happen again!