Southsea Bus Rally including sunshine!

Sorry that once more Weebly failed to deliver the blogs in full while we were away in Hampshire. I'll do my best to catch up, it just shows that with the best will in the world all this modern technology can fail as much as a broken pencil. Today it was the rally at Southsea, a revival of the Southsea spectaculars which we attended for many year. Looking at the history of the event we weren't that many years int it when we first went. The only thing I could question on the history was that there was just one year after the move to the common that it returned to the castle which wasn't a double booking but the Common had been churned up by military vehicles. It was a great atmosphere that time around and the best trading day we ever had there. Rain and sun shine seemed to alternate but it was really one of the main events in the rally year and the spot never really went to any other local events although there were obvious candidates such as Stokes Bay or Worthing. Alton is probably the nearest in size today to the Southsea specatacular in it's heyday. 

The weather wasn't going top be great, that we knew and of course so did enthusiasts, families and vehicle owners but despite all that there were about 60 buses in attendance with a good span of ages. The team lead by Mark and Julian did a stalwart task up against the weather and the obvious lack of buses early on but they all came together  as buses often do and the Common soon started to look its old Spectacular self. We sat it out while the heavy rain persisted and then put up the rest of the stand after it laid off and by the afternoon the sau was out. We had a good run back home and the traffic seemed lighter than usual. Some pictures from  today and over the next few days I'll cover Portsmouth, Fareham, Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole all of which we visited as well as a family day out on Friday.