Cars = fun

I had forgotten just how much fun you can have with cars until I went to the University of Bristol Motor Club weekend.

We went road rallying on Saturday night which involved decoding clues and finding a route around the middle of nowhere and then driving there to arrive at the allocated time. We started in a dark car park in the rain somewhere near Marlborough around 10pm and 7 hours later finished with the sun coming up. Whilst the time allocation gives you an average speed of 30mph, which doesn't seem very fun, by the time you've worked out where to go, got lost and run over an animal you end up having to average 60 down lanes not much wider than the car. We only managed to get properly lost once and ended up coming 3rd out of 5, although two people didn't make it to the end.

The next day after some snatched sleep in a tent we did an autotest. This was supposed to be driving round a slightly damp, muddy field attempting to go between cones and do J-turns and handbrake turns, but actually it ended up with people going very sideways and wheelspinning all over the place. Great fun.

The only problem is that I now have a worrying urge to buy a car...