Mick & Lyn's overseas adventure 2013: Saturday 6 July 2013. Overton, M & S, Vintage Rally, Bodelwyddan Castle

On another beautiful morning Luke, Davina and Geoff's son and his wife, Angela, and their two sons, Lewis and Finn came to visit us before departing on a camping trip.

It was nice to meet them all as we weren’t able to meet them when we were here in 2010. Mick thought that Luke looked very much like Mick's Uncle Norman, who was Mick's mothers brother.

When they left, the girls (Davina and Lyn) headed off to the biggest Marks and Spencers store around in a big shopping centre in the Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village near Chester, (otherwise known as “shopping heaven”) whilst Geoff and Mick headed off to a Vintage Rally in the grounds of Bodelwyddan Castle in Wales 45 miles away.

Bodelwyddan Castle is close to the village of Bodelwyddan near Rhyl, Denbighshire and was built around 1460 by the Humphreys family of Anglesy as a Manor House.

The Vintage Rally showed off vintage motorcycles, cars, lorries, trucks, military vehicles, tractors, stationary engines, traction engines some of which were chugging away most of the day. Fascinating to watch.

Mick was particularly excited when he found that there was a perfect example of the first Motorcycle he ever owned a BSA 250cc C15 Star.

Amongst the cars there was a beautiful example of an Austin A30 Van which was the first car that his parents had bought in 1953 and a Vauxhall Cresta of the type owned by the father of Mick’s childhood friend, Keith Collingwood.

Also at the rally were trials riders showing off their skills and two guys making various garden ornaments out of wood using chainsaws.

Geoff found one of his nephews displaying a couple of beautiful horses so whilst they chatted, Mick went off to tour the Bodelwyddan Castle and gardens.

At 4 o’clock Geoff and Mick met up again and headed home.

Soon after we arrived home the girls returned happy with their days expenditure and we all had a Chinese takeaway for dinner.