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Scenic Car Tours have just advertised their tour to a number of historic places. The trip includes Dresden and Berlin. Looking at their standard itinerary, there are a few very long driving days. Speaking to Kieran air MogFest, he invited me to propose a modified itinerary. Scenic have confirmed that my suggestion is practical and I now need to raise at least another 4 cars to make the trip happen as a Morgan only tour. My itinerary: Early to mid June departure (definitely home by 24th June). 1 Hull Rotterdam (or alternate) 2 Arnhem (70 miles) 3 Somewhere near the dams (130 miles) 4 Nordhausen (144 miles) 5 Dresden via Colditz (165 miles) 6 Dresden ( 0 miles) 7 Berlin via Stalag Luft III ( 235 miles) 8 Berlin (0 miles) 9 Near Wolfsburg (160 miles) 10 Munster (175 miles) 11 Rotterdam (160 miles) 12 Hull -> home For the standard holiday, here are the details. Scenic Car Tours - Standard Colditz tripPlease DM me if you are interested - plus give me an email address and your permission to pass contact details over to Scenic Car Tours.
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Call in at the Hemswell Antiques Centre (ex RAF Helmswell) on your way to Hull as that's were the air base scenes were filmed for the The Dambusters...
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Call in at the Hemswell Antiques Centre (ex RAF Helmswell) on your way to Hull as that's were the air base scenes were filmed for the The Dambusters...
Arwyn Thank you.
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Call in at the Hemswell Antiques Centre (ex RAF Helmswell) on your way to Hull as that's were the air base scenes were filmed for the The Dambusters...
Arwyn My uncle was an Air Cadet at the time (don't know where he was based) and appeared in the film, they lived at Warne after they got married, close to Hull
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Walk across the road to “Hemswell Court” and you can see where the Officer’s mess scenes from the film were made too
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My great uncle was at Hemswell and Scampton for most of the war as a Sergeant Armourer. I wish I'd asked him more about his experiences, although he did relate a few good stories.
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You could also call into the Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre, south of Lincoln, on the way to the ferry at Hull. We have a real 1944 C-47A Dakota where you can sit in the pilots seat or on genuine 1940's Para seats, you won't get that at Arnhem! We have an extensive Airborne display including a 1/3 scale Horsa and a rare Welbike with CLE container. It was a WW2 Bomber Command airfield, so plenty of Lancaster stuff as well. https://www.metheringhamairfield.co.uk
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Metheringham - well worth a visit it is too! 
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Scenic Car Tours have just advertised their tour to a number of historic places. The trip includes Dresden and Berlin. Looking at their standard itinerary, there are a few very long driving days. Speaking to Kieran air MogFest, he invited me to propose a modified itinerary. Scenic have confirmed that my suggestion is practical and I now need to raise at least another 4 cars to make the trip happen as a Morgan only tour. My itinerary: 8th to 12th June departure (definitely home by 24th June). 1 Hull Rotterdam (or alternate) 2 Arnhem (70 miles) 3 Somewhere near the dams (130 miles) 4 Nordhausen (144 miles) 5 Dresden via Colditz (165 miles) 6 Dresden ( 0 miles) 7 Berlin via Stalag Luft III ( 235 miles) 8 Berlin (0 miles) 9 Near Wolfsburg (160 miles) 10 Munster (175 miles) 11 Rotterdam (160 miles) 12 Hull -> home For the standard holiday, here are the details. Scenic Car Tours - Standard Colditz tripPlease DM me if you are interested - plus give me an email address and your permission to pass contact details over to Scenic Car Tours. We now have 6 cars interested. Not too late to join us.
Paul
Costock, UK
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A couple of cars dropped out and one became unable to commit so, sadly, calling this off.
Paul
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