Glavon Tulip Run
After a very strange summer September gave us a chance to actually go out in a TR7 on the Glavon Tulip Run. With all the COVID restrictions in place our TR Register group managed to organise a small run out with the cars on 13th September.
Fairview Garden Centre at Birdwood opened up specially early at 8:30am to serve the 12 crews with a nice bacon roll and a cuppa before we started. We were the only visitors there at that time and the lovely weather meant we were able to sit at outside tables.
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| Glavon cars at Fairview Garden Centre |
The gentle route had been planned by Noel and Ange Jones and took us out towards Ross on Wye and then down via Upton Bishop and along the beautiful river bank at Hole-in-the-Wall where we got a cheerful wave from some folks camping by the river.
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| River Wye at Hole-in-the-Wall |
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| Socially distanced campers |
Being harvest time we did meet quite a few tractors with heavily loaded trailers full of sugar beet in the narrow lanes. No rest for the farmers who have to work Sundays when the weather is kind to them.
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| Jo calls a turn near Ross on Wye |
We all paused for a coffee at Raglan Garden Centre where people were starting to arrive for Sunday lunch in the cafe. This felt a bit strange to us but arrangements were in place to enable everyone to keep their distance and again we were all able to sit outside.
After a short run through the Forest of Dean we crossed back over the Severn Bridge to finish at the Royal Oak in Wotton Under Edge. A Sunday lunch had been arranged for us here but we chose to pass on that and continue home which is only 7-8 miles away.
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| Glavon cars at the finish pub | |
The day after our run the country entered a new lockdown and it turned out to be the only outing of 2020.
