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:

mini meet
 

Thanks for the weekend, great to meet you all and get inspired, I have found a singh doing bike hire http://lallisingh.com is that the one you used Gemma, had a great run home once it stopped raining west of Figeac, hope you all had the same.
cheers john

Thanks for the kind words GemmaSun. Was fun giving a unrehearsed/unprepared impromptu presentation...

I'm always available - somewhere - for local knowledge on bike travel in the western US.

The boat to the UK and London didn't do much for me, but what I've seen of Wales and Dublin have been fantastic. The Irish even painted the clouds blue to make 'em look like sky! Too bad it was washed away ovenight, but then I should be used to rain by now :-)

I wish I had read about this earlier than 5 minutes ago! See you next year!
Roger
(in SW France)

Never mind Roger, but it would have been good to see you. I'm already putting pen to paper thinking about something next year, so keep an eye on the HUBB over the coming months, and hopefully we can book you in!

Any photos? ;)

Ahem! :confused1: see page 7.

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

and Yves Bodelot from Touratech France! probably riding the new water cooled BMW GS1200 with some great Touratech gear
:smiliex:

Yvon Bodelot =4LPAZE, and yes he was touratech'ed up to the hilt on the new GS. ( Nice bike by the way!)

mmm Bordeaux 55 I like the sound of that.Well done to Gemma ,Mark and Pongo , great to meet everyone .just back from a month lost in france fantastic country.maybe make it to fife in a couple of weeks and catch up with anyone there.Iain

:oops2: I definitely skipped page 7. Nice pics and meeting!

France Mini-Meet, Sep 5-7, 2014 at 'Camping Les Tours', St Amant-des-Cots, Aveyron
 

We're very pleased to advise that John Whyman (Pongo) is organising this 2nd event with Mark and Gemma in the same location. Last year had folks from all over Europe and as far away as Australia. Details to come soon! Please add comments to the 2014 thread here.