Crick Boat Show

We booked our tickets to this three day event nearly six months ago not knowing what to expect but having high hopes. The first day was certainly an eye opener!

We arrived at our accommodation, the Olde Coach House in Ashby St. Ledgers, dropped our bags and set off for Crick just to see where we were heading the next day, expecting that there would be large crowds.  Crick turned out to be a small village near Rugby with little more than a Co-op supermarket, post office come general store and two large marinas, surrounded by farms. This definitely wasn't what we were expecting when we signed up to go to what is considered the premier inland boat show in the country.

Up the next day bright and early, sat eating a full English breakfast (included in room rate so had to eat it), listening to the rain absolutely bucketing down...could be interesting! Arrived at the Boat Show right on 10 am and was ushered into the local farmer's paddock along with around several thousand other cars, just next door to heaps of large tents. There was already mud everywhere, we were shoulder to shoulder with thousands of others all looking for a dry spot out of the mud but so much information and so well organised despite the rain and the mud.

We saw some beautiful boats, collected a lot of valuable information and ate some nice local food. Beer was good too!