My two children have been on impeccably good behaviour this week. Unfortunately I cannot blame my wonderful parenting skills, but the fact we had all been invited to the UK premier of The Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian at the O2 Arena in London.
I felt a weird sensation come over me. I was so high up in such a large van I felt ‘King of the Road’. My forward visibility was superb and with the fantastic engine, so was the performance.
Mercedes Benz was sponsoring the event with their new Viano people carrier and duly delivered one to us so we could travel to the venue in style.
The Viano is rather large and extremely spacious with the first dilemma for the children over which seat to sit in. While they deliberated, I will admit to feeling a pang of nerves as I fathomed out the controls that was in fact very simple. The dimensions were getting to me a bit as I gingerly made my way out of the village making sure I left enough room round the bends so the back end stayed in tact.
Then we hit the motorway and I felt a weird sensation come over me. I was so high up in such a large van I felt ‘King of the Road’. My forward visibility was superb and with the fantastic engine, so was the performance.
I then transformed into one of them! A blasé get-out-of my way kind of white van driver even thought the Viano was black. Why? Because I felt so confident in this safe machine. So that explains why white van drivers drive like they do.
What concerned me when the Viano went back to Mercedes Benz was the number of Yorkie bar and chewing gum wrappers scattered on the floor! Whoops!
FemaleFirst - Jackie Violet