2 weeks To Go until DDK weekend edition 3 - final preparations underway
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2026 1:45 pm
With only two weeks to go until the best weekend of the year I visited the hotel on Friday in my 997 to check final preparations, agree the menu, agree the sitting plans for the group meal in the private room with our own dedicated bar on Saturday night and to test drive three out the four planned driving routes
Menus should hopefully be released early next week and you will have approximately one week to update your entry on Jot form
Route 1 - Saturday morning - hotel to caffeine n machine
Caffeine and machine is only 6 miles or nine minutes away from the hotel but for those that are interested, I have set up a one hour totally unnecessary just for fun drive the long way round from the hotel to caffeine and machine.
I am quite pleased with this route as it has some lovely fast sweepers, we go past the amazing castle pub, there’s a great bit of downhill road on the far side of Edgehill and there’s only one scary bit of single track road with three cattle grids, but the reward is a super cool old stone bridge on the other side. So far only Clive and myself staying at the hotel on Friday night so I’m not sure how many people will go straight to caffeine and machine but for anybody who wants to join us on Saturday morning for this one hour drive we will be leaving the hotel at approximately 9:30 am on Saturday morning to arrive at caffeine and machine by 10 thirty ish.
Everyone else please aim to arrive at Caffeine and machine between 1 10:30 and 11 am with the plan to have lunch at caffeine and machine before leaving at 1 pm-ish for Tuthills
Route two is a mostly direct 30 min route from caffeine and machine to Tuthills missing out the major roads and circumventing Banbury. Arriving at Tuthills on my test drive I was blown away by the cars outside and just can’t wait to go inside for the private tour. I think it’s gonna be mega.
Route three is a 60 minute drive home from Tuthill’s back to the hotel. The direct route is 30 odd minutes but if you wanna go on a reasonably enjoyable drive home you can join us for Route three once again going past the castle pub and some enjoyable roads on the way back to the hotel.
Once back at the hotel, we can mingle in the bar area for a couple of pints before meeting in our private “Hampton Suite” room at 7pm with starters being served at 730pm.
Music will be provided by Amazon music’s classic rock play list …. although I can be easily bribed with beer for your song of choice
The Sitting plan at the meal will be two banquet tables of 20 each positioned next to each other (like an = sign) so hopefully we will be much closer together as a group which will help the conversation and banter
Still a little bit of final work to do, but we will aim to get final information to everybody by next weekend with one week left to go
We hope you are excited as we are for Ddk weekend ed 3
and if you have any questions, let me know
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Menus should hopefully be released early next week and you will have approximately one week to update your entry on Jot form
Route 1 - Saturday morning - hotel to caffeine n machine
Caffeine and machine is only 6 miles or nine minutes away from the hotel but for those that are interested, I have set up a one hour totally unnecessary just for fun drive the long way round from the hotel to caffeine and machine.
I am quite pleased with this route as it has some lovely fast sweepers, we go past the amazing castle pub, there’s a great bit of downhill road on the far side of Edgehill and there’s only one scary bit of single track road with three cattle grids, but the reward is a super cool old stone bridge on the other side. So far only Clive and myself staying at the hotel on Friday night so I’m not sure how many people will go straight to caffeine and machine but for anybody who wants to join us on Saturday morning for this one hour drive we will be leaving the hotel at approximately 9:30 am on Saturday morning to arrive at caffeine and machine by 10 thirty ish.
Everyone else please aim to arrive at Caffeine and machine between 1 10:30 and 11 am with the plan to have lunch at caffeine and machine before leaving at 1 pm-ish for Tuthills
Route two is a mostly direct 30 min route from caffeine and machine to Tuthills missing out the major roads and circumventing Banbury. Arriving at Tuthills on my test drive I was blown away by the cars outside and just can’t wait to go inside for the private tour. I think it’s gonna be mega.
Route three is a 60 minute drive home from Tuthill’s back to the hotel. The direct route is 30 odd minutes but if you wanna go on a reasonably enjoyable drive home you can join us for Route three once again going past the castle pub and some enjoyable roads on the way back to the hotel.
Once back at the hotel, we can mingle in the bar area for a couple of pints before meeting in our private “Hampton Suite” room at 7pm with starters being served at 730pm.
Music will be provided by Amazon music’s classic rock play list …. although I can be easily bribed with beer for your song of choice
The Sitting plan at the meal will be two banquet tables of 20 each positioned next to each other (like an = sign) so hopefully we will be much closer together as a group which will help the conversation and banter
Still a little bit of final work to do, but we will aim to get final information to everybody by next weekend with one week left to go
We hope you are excited as we are for Ddk weekend ed 3
and if you have any questions, let me know
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