Run to the Clouds

This October we headed off for Cornwall and our annual Run to the Clouds event. We took the van, back seats removed, as we knew we'd need to shift a lot of surf boards about that weekend. The long board even fits in the van once the rear seats are out, although it has to slide in between the front two seats alongside the handbrake.

We had a great run, getting to Bude in about 4 hours which is close to a record. Again this shows the van totally happy to blast along at 80 mph or so and the run wasn't even tiring - we simply didn't stop the whole way there. On the way I was struck with the thought that for years and years and years I'd wanted a van to go surfing and finally I'd got around to doing it. And this was my first ever surf trip with the van. It was ace.



12 people decided to go surfing so we had to pick up ten extra boards from Zuma Jays surf shop and transport them to the beach and back to the hostel. The van was the perfect solution and God only knows how we'd have managed without it!



Given the evil conditions of Sunday, blowing a hooly and raining horizontally (Saturday was shorts and t-shirts weather) being able to jump in the back of the van, shut the doors and change in relative comfort was great. Although once again it showed that having a raising roof would have been perfect as hunching over to change wasn't as comfortable as it could have been. Still it was much better than being outside!