At the end of June, I was signed up to take the boys and one of Ben's friends, Alex, to the biggest weekend in the tank lover's calendar - TankFest. I am sure you can guess the venue - Simon and Ben's favourite museum in England - The Tank Museum. The only drawback was I would be missing the 2nd Lions test match (the only one we won).
We arrived nice and early just after 10AM. One thing the English seem to enjoy is dressing up. There were heaps of re-enactments. Nothing like spending a warm day sitting in trench dressed up as a WWII soldier. When we walked in we thought some of the displays were static with dummies inside until the people on them started moving.
There were a couple of toy tanks and the boys had a go driving them.
Once they went into the museum I lost them and had to spend about 45 minutes looking for them. I finally tracked them down at the World for Tanks exhibit - which is a computer game the boys play. Why look at real tanks when you can spend time on a computer?
After lunch we watched the the live tank demo, which was quite impressive including a working Tiger tank from WWII.
We arrived nice and early just after 10AM. One thing the English seem to enjoy is dressing up. There were heaps of re-enactments. Nothing like spending a warm day sitting in trench dressed up as a WWII soldier. When we walked in we thought some of the displays were static with dummies inside until the people on them started moving.
There were a couple of toy tanks and the boys had a go driving them.
After lunch we watched the the live tank demo, which was quite impressive including a working Tiger tank from WWII.
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| Not a Tiger tank but a modern Leopard tank. |
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