Day 29 - Brooklands Museum

Chauffeur Cory drove the 4 of us to Weybridge today.
Here we visited the Brooklands Museum. We left early as when we went to book our tickets it was Porsche day 🙃 so literally every man and his Porsche was there on display as well 🤣

The reason we choose to come here is because it has a full sized Concorde on display so you can imagine how excited Guy was!

We arrived at 10 am went straight to book our "Concorde Experience" we couldn't do our Tour until 11:55am.
This place is huge 🙈 we started outside by looking at all the other planes. We were able to board onto one that belonged to the Sultan of Oman. This was his private plane. He donated it to Brooklands as it was built there.
They had a couple of Mclaren formula one cars and one even made of Lego!
Quick bite to eat and we were able to do the Concorde tour. We boarded from back steps and watched a movie about the plane. 30% of the plane we were on was built at Brooklands also.
The plane is absolutely huge, when it used fly the outside temp reaches 127° and the whole plane expands 8 inches.
One seat cost around $12000 nzd to fly on the Concorde, serving high quality food and drink 🍸
We were then able to sit in the seats and watch a slightly simulated take off and landing. This plane was so ahead of its time, it's a shame it had to be pulled from the air due to the sonic boom it made flying over land.
We were even given Concorde boarding passes and certificates 😍
Such an awesome thing to see in real life.
So much more to see at the museum, aircrafts, cars and motorcycles for miles but it was all so interesting. Even had a London bus museum, and we were able to board a double decker bus at 2pm and go for trip around the town of Weybridge.
Cannot believe we spent nearly 5 hours there but it was well worth it!
Safe to say we were all pretty tired after that day! Lucky Debs and Hollie had a yummy pork roast on for tea with homemade Yorkshire puddings too! 😋
Of course the kids had another swim 🏊‍♂️

Bedtime won't be late for us tonight and the 4 of us are off to London 🇬🇧 again tomorrow on our own 🤣🙈
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