BMWLand

The seemingly annual Cornwall trip was undertaken this Easter. I had wanted to book somewhere for the family to stay for a while, but it took me an age to find the right location, house, parking etc. In May of last year I found a house in St Ives for the family, it ticked all the boxes for us:
- walking distance to the town
- parking for four cars
- five bedrooms (Mrs W, two sons, two step-daughters, two step-son-in-laws, two granddaughters and a grandson!)
The place is called Day Dawn, a stunning house built purposefully for the holiday crowd, converted from a semi-detached bungalow, but flipped upside down so that the living area has all the views of the bay. So I booked it nearly nine months ago as finding another one that ticks all the boxes would be tough. A long wait until this Easter!

Mrs W and I planned a trip to Fowey the day before we all met up in St Ives, some peace and quiet before the fun of the family. We left at 6am on Thursday 17th, packed the car and headed down...

Nerdy stuff but managed 813 miles between fill ups meaning we drove from Northern Spain (Med side) to Folkestone via Lyon and Dijon. Still had 50 miles in the tank.

Fully loaded 520d MHT touring.

Mrs Mad may have taken a video of the car driving itself. If I can upload it I'll add it later.

Hope you are all well.

Haven't been on the forum for a couple of years, good to see the familiar names still updating regularly!

My experience on the BMWLand since 2010 has been extremely good and always had great advice from knowledgable members.

I own Retro Classics in Bradford (retroclassicautomotive on IG), West Yorkshire - 80s, 90s and 00s cars I showcase and sell. We have exhibited cars at the BMW meets at Gaydon a couple of times and will be there this year too.

Plus over the years my friend/business partner and I have built a private car collection, which currently sits as follows -

Bentley Continental Flying Spur
Lexus GS300 Sport
BMW 750iL Individual- Vermont Green
Toyota MR2 Mk1
Toyota Corolla 1.6 Executive
Mercedes S63 AMG
Mercedes S55 AMG
BMW X5 4.8is M
Mercedes W124 E280 Limousine
Toyota Celica GT
Range Rover SVR
Audi RS6

BMW E38s and of course E39s have always been my favourite- still looking for that E39 M5 in Scarab Green with Caramel Heritage leather -...