Bovington Museum - WWII Allies Material

With a signficant delay versus my initial plans, this is the second illustrated report of our visit to Bovington Museum, dealing with the WWII Allies collection. As impressive as the German collection, there are asome very interesting French and British "rarities" from the early war period really worth visiting. Hope you enjoy this new entry.

Bovington Museum - WWII German Material

In this second post of our visit to the Bovington Tank Museum, I will post a slection of the photos taken to the museum's German AFVs collection, one of the most impressive I have ever seen (although in fact, the whole Museum is  amazing). Hope you enjoy this photo show.

 

Dragons Back from London (II) - Bovington WWI Material

In this first instalment, I will show the photos of the First World War collection at Bovington

Overview of Main Hall

Little Willie, Mother/Father of all tanks

(Exhausted) Dragons Back from London (I) - Some Musings and the Salute Hoard

Yes, we are back home but after three trepid days and a long delay in our outbound flight (thanks Easyjet!!!), the Spanish Salute-raiding party arrived in a relatively bad state. In addition, my desk at the office seems to have missed me soooo much on Friday, that I found a twofold  ration of daily work when I hit my chair on Monday.

So first, apologies for the lack of news, I know many other bloggers have already  published lavishly illustrated entries of their Salute adventures, but I'm no there yet. My camera memory card is about to bust, and therefore I need sometime to organize, edit and polish several hundred pics taken at Salute, Bovington, the National Army and the Imperial War Museums respectively... not to mention the expected photo avalanche when my traveling mates discharge their own memory cards in our shared Dropbox facility purporsely created for this trip

Enough excuses, and now a few comments and impressions for this first entry narrating our adventures in the "Perfidious Albion" last weekend. Over the next days I'll post some more specific entries in the blog and of course lists and lots of (hopefully) nice and mouth-watering pics of our tour around the museums.

First on the Bovington Tank Museum, I have no words in English to express my feeling, only in Spanish:

OLÉ! 

Dragons Flying to London...

...hopefullly arriving to the Excel Centre on time fro Salute 2012. A fairly and decently large representation of our club (10 people according to the last roll-call) is flying on Friday morning for a full 3-day wargaming bash in London. Our plan is to go from Gatwick directly to the Bovington Tank Museum, hit the Salute venue on Saturday morning; and between the afternoon and Sunday morning pay a visit to the National Army Museum and/or the Imperial War Museum.

This is the official agenda of the group, ambitious but probably achievable. My own personal agenda includes meeting face-to-face some of the bloggers whom I'´ve building relations over the past two years in the blogsphere, like Sidney Roundwood, the now almost-mythical Fran a.ka. "The Angry Lurker" (a guy with over 1,000 followers!!!) and his arch-enemy Ray Roussell :-), of the Rejects Group, among many others.... and of course I will not miss the call made by Richard Clarke, the man behind the TooFatLardies, to share a beer at the Fox around noon.

So don't be shy and if if you see  a group of guys there, NOT speaking English,  wearing dark blue pullovers with a yellow logo of a dragon in the front, please stop us and ask for Annibal Invictus. 

SALUTE 2012 - Spanish Armada heading to London

Some of you may think this is premature, but I wanted to share with you our project to attend the Salute 2012. The idea came up in the group within my local club that gathers regularly to play TooFatLardies games and the response has been enthusiastic so far, with nine members already signed-up. In fact the initial plan has become more ambitious, and the latest version is to fly Friday early in the morning, hire a car and straight to Bovington Tank Museum; Saturday morning will be invested in Salute and in the afternoon we will visitthe National Army Museum; on Sunday it will be the time to visit the Imperial War Museum and then back to Madrid.