Dear Atria,
Few days ago we took Baba to Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon. We thought he will enjoy it as he has always been interested in technology, mechanics and finding out how things work and how they were developing over the years. We were right - Baba absolutely loved this museum. You may be thinking right now that 'museum' sounds boring. I remember that I thought that museums are boring when I was your age, but actually often they can be very interesting - you just need to give them a chance and visit with an open mind :-)
Few days ago we took Baba to Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon. We thought he will enjoy it as he has always been interested in technology, mechanics and finding out how things work and how they were developing over the years. We were right - Baba absolutely loved this museum. You may be thinking right now that 'museum' sounds boring. I remember that I thought that museums are boring when I was your age, but actually often they can be very interesting - you just need to give them a chance and visit with an open mind :-)
Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon is a home to the world’s largest collection of historic British cars. We've seen some very old cars, some extraordinarily shaped super cars designed just for movies, some luxury modern cars, sport cars and also the best of motoring record breakers including some of the fastest British cars, the slowest, smallest, most economical and the more wacky record breakers. Some of the fastest cars looked more like trains - they were long, slim, you couldn't see the wheels, the whole body was designed ergonomically to achieve maximum speed of over 500mph! Most of these cars had jet engines. I haven't seen anything like this before.
There was a little cinema in the museum and we've watched a short movie about the manufacture of the first Mini car - it was interesting and made in a funny, engaging way. Gaydon offers many interactive features and computer presentation. They even have an artist in residence. It is an unusual painter as he uses radio controlled model cars to produce his artwork - we actually have seen him working and it looked very messy, but the final painting was really good. Baba 'examined' every engine on display, we discussed different features of the cars, some funny memories came back... and we enjoyed ourselves. It was a quality Father and Son time. I hope we will have some quality Father and Daughter time... Where would you like to go?
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