zac&oliv
 

hello
we will be on friday for 2 with my son and our ural sude car
see you
olivier&zacchary

Working problems..I can't be there

Sorry guys, but I can't make it after all - perhaps next time!

Steve

I'm afraid I won't be there either.
Just received some bad news, my father died a couple of days ago.
So having to return to the UK tomorrow.

Hope you guys have a good time, have a cold one for me hu..

Dog

Condolences
 

So sorry to hear your news.
thanks for letting us know.

Mark and Gemma

Great weekend had by all
 

Thanks to everyone who came along this weekend.

Despite the torrential rain we have had a fantastic weekend.

Brilliant mix of people, bikes, great conversations, good food and a fewbeer

Excellent !!!

I just got back from a very soggy Aveyron. Despite the heavy ( and I mean heavy!) :stormy: rain, soggy tents etc, it could not have been better.

I must firstly say a huge thankyou to Mark and Gemma who put on a brilliant few days, worked damned hard to make everyone feel 'at home', and organised some superb food and a fridge full of beer bier, all put together in the 'meet' tent, where we spent some happy hours listening to travellers tales from a magical ,eclectic mix from all over the planet. In the face of really adverse weather conditions...Mark and Gemma were totally unflappable and made what could have been a miserable situation a really enjoyable few days. They even put a slide show on of their short break trips to India; Vietnam; Laos; Morocco &Thailand and Gemma talked us through how you can have a real adventure for a few weeks/months on a very limited budget.

Over the meet days we had a real mix of people, from all parts of the Globe:- The Netherlands, France; England; Scotland; Hawaii; Tasmania; Darwin (oz); and everyone mucked in, helped and contributed. ( thanks to Roger for bringing the Neufchatel Cheese all the way from Dieppe ( 745KMs), and to all who bought refreshments.

When the rain let up and it was a bit brighter, the setting was superb on the side of the lake.

The biggest thanks must go to everyone who came, enjoyed it, and felt that we should do the same next year. Thanks also to Yvon Bodelot, Touratech's French Importer, for spending two days with us and being enthusiastic and sharing some interesting ideas.

( photos to follow! - when I've managed to crawl out of some very soggy leather trousers!)

Well done Mark and Gemma! Great to hear it went well despite the crap weather.

I look forward to the photos! :rain::stormy:
Great to hear Yvon did make it and had a good time!

thank you to all of you for your warm welcome which helped us to ignore the flood (this is not your your fault Pongo) hope you all safe and dry ,see you soon
somewhere sometime (even in the sunny place for a change)
Roger

We arrived home safely after a rather wet and cold trip.

Thanks very much to Pongo, Gemma and Mark for organising an excellent weekend. It was great to meet everyone and look forward to doing it again at some point.

Charles & Audrey

Some photos.
 

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Attachment 10601 Coffee on the go. All set up before members arrival

Attachment 10602 The view from my chair.

Attachment 10603 The meet tent. Later to be the focal point for food, drink and keeping dry(ish!)

Attachment 10604 A well stocked fridge ( one of three!)

Attachment 10605 Gemma being a ''gem'' preparing meat and vegetarian bolognese.

Attachment 10606 Clockwise. Magnon ( Audrey & Charles), Crusty, Otra,
Oliver737+son in cap) Bordeaux55, Gemmasun-Mark, ZebraAT.

Attachment 10607 Oliver 737.Olivier and Zacchary leave on a very wet Saturday morning, to continue their year long European tour.

Attachment 10608Rockwallaby (Tasmania) and OTRA, fine tuning the GPS.

Attachment 10609 Berndt from Hawaii repairing something!

Attachment 10614 Camping!

Attachment 10615 A very cool Ural with sidecar...

Attachment 10616 Oliver and Zach on their way

Attachment 10617 New water cooled BMW GS1200 with some great touratech gear

Attachment 10618 Some of the gang on Sunday morning (DRWNITE, Rockwallaby, 4LPAZE, CANYON, GEMMASUN, CRUSTY, THERMAL, OTRA, GABACHO, BORDO55, PONGO)

Awesome
 

I have to say I have never met a bunch of awesome, like minded peopel in such a shot time. Mark and Gemma thanks heaps, sensational effort and hospitality, appolagies for the early departure, kind regards to all :-)

Another vote of thanks to Gemma, Mark & Pongo for a fantastic weekend. Lesser beings would have been defeated by the weather :rain::stormy::rain:
but everyone rallied to make it a great event, hopefully the first of many. Same time next year..? :D

Straggler Sunday evening talk......
 

Thanks to Thermal for a great talk about travelling in the great US of A and bike shipping for those of us who were still around on Sunday evening.

Really informative and made me and Mark inspired to explore .... might see you there THERMAL!! :palm: