Wight Blat 2025

Last weekend was the first big trip of the summer, the Wight Blat 2025.

This is an annual club trip to the Isle of Wight, organised by Simon and Alex. The plan was to stay at the very nice Luccombe Hall Hotel in Shanklin for a couple of nights and drive around the island to various locations.

I started off at 9:30am from Romford, and met up with Essex legend Debbie in her 1985 X-flow at Brentwood. We then headed down to Crawley and stopped at Pease Pottage services, before driving to Portsmouth to get the ferry over to the Island.

It's quite fun getting on boat in a Caterham ! The ferry was super quick, just 20 mins to get to Fishbourne. Then it was a half-hour drive to the Luccombe Hall.

After unpacking we did a short walk down Shanklin Chime to the beach, before dinner at the hotel.

We had a proper itinerary for Saturday.

First stop was the Military Museum.

Excellent Auto Sport 50th Anniversary model, with factory CD player !

Then I followed another car to the West coast and down the Military Road, meeting up with the rest of the group for the Brewery tour.

And then back to the hotel for drinks and dinner. The weather was fantastic all weekend !

Did the drive back with a couple from Crawley on the A-roads from Portsmouth, and then finally motorways home. A great start to the season!