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**ra-mon** · #46 4 Sep 2014

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Originally Posted by Pongo

Just getting ready to head for St Amans and the sun

Looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces, and to sharing an " apero" or two

See you tomorrow

**Thermal** · #47 5 Sep 2014

At the moment I find this phrase rather annoying. I was looking forward to the weekend, seeing the returnees from last year's meet, as well as Laurent et Carole who I met 2 years ago, and of course all the newcomers.
I was also looking forward to a nice leisurely ride over three days from Lac de Bourget over some awesome roads to St. Amans. I got to a nice campground near Bourdeax (not a misspelling of Bordeaux), and the following day got about 3 km further when my moto est tombé en panne.
With the help and incredible hospitality of some locals I met since then, the machine is in a garage in Dieulefit where I tore into it to find a stripped clutch disk. Things looked promising when a BMW parts supplier in Valréas said he had the part in house, but that proved not to be that case when I got there to pick it up. So, I am now waiting for the parts to show up in Valence on Saturday and hopefully reassemble everything on Monday.
So, sadly I will miss the get-together this weekend and will have to make different plans for what's left of my trip as the original plans is impractical after losing a week. Cést la vie!
Aloha,
Berndt

**gemmasun** · #48 6 Sep 2014

Thats bad news. Hope you get it sorted soon so you enjoy the rest of your time over here. Sorry we won't be seeing you, perhaps another time or place.

Gemma & Mark

**gemmasun** · #49 7 Sep 2014

A BIG thank you to all you great people who came along to Camping Les Tours for the second France mini meet. It was a fantastic weekend.

Interesting, informative presentations…..

Good food, great company, good times

**gemmasun** · #50 7 Sep 2014

France Mini-Meet, Sep 5-7, 2014 at 'Camping Les Tours', St Amans-des-Cots, Aveyron-wp_20140907_003.jpg

**le hug** · #51 7 Sep 2014

Un grand merci a Gemma,Mark et John pour leurs accueil,l'organisation qui nous ont permis de passer de tres bons moments.Merci aussi a tous les participants et leurs bonnes humeurs,pleins de bonnes rencontres.

Bien rentrés a la maison avec le soleil comme compagnon de route.

Lucie,Claire et Hug

Une photo souvenir:

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/attachment.php?attachmentid=13773&stc=1&d=14101155 82

**Pongo** · #52 7 Sep 2014

Hi everyone; and thanks for making this a great weekend. Some special thanks from me to all the presenters; Mark & Gemma: Laurent & Carole; Thierry Floreck and especially Jacques Albohair who also came to the rescue to help sort out a tricky sound problem for the final presentation video. The presentations were all excellent and were a mix of past adventures and a new project starting next year. Further thanks to Thierry Floreck for persuading some of his friends from the GS France forum for coming in strength to support our meeting.

Our friends from Catelunya obviously enjoyed themselves, and I hope we see you all again sometime.

Once again an International mix of languages, making the best of it and making new friends. It was also very good to see last years ''veterans'' of the apalling weather enjoying the hot sunshine. I was sorry to hear about Berndt's clutch problem, but If you get fixed up soon Berndt and are heading in a westerly direction, send me a message and drop in.

We had two family's with side car outfits, Vincent ( le Hug) Claire and little Lucy,( BMW 1150GS) and Yvon Bodelot( Touratech France) brought the whole family, himself two youngsters and the new baby on the GS 1200 side car oufit and his wife Dominique on her G 650GS.

The BBQ was a fun affair with may be six stoves going at once, lots of things cooking, and ( unsurprisingly ) some good humour sparked off after a few drinks.

Good luck to Lilian and Guido from Holland on their trip to Portugal, and to Angel and Theresa ( Interfolio Libro) with their new publications.

I do hope everyone had a good trip home, and my apologies to anyone I didn't say good bye to this morning, but I needed to make good time today for the return journey.

**Pongo** · #53 8 Sep 2014

More photos. Bikes in every direction, lakeside evening BBQ, and those who made it the next morning for the family photo.

**potski** · #54 8 Sep 2014

Hi everyone,

It was called a "mini meet" but it was a maxi success. What a great group of people to spend time with. We all may not have been able to communicate 100% in language but maybe it was even better for it.

Thanks to John, Gemma & Mark for all their hard work in making it such a good bash.

Hope to see you all again next year.

Cheers
Potski

& Mrs P

**ra-mon** · #55 8 Sep 2014

Hi,

The Catalan group has become very happy for assisiting this meeting travelers and hoping to paticipate next year.

We had some comunication problems for our low level of English and French languages but thanks to the good will of the participants we understood more or less all.

Thanks to everyone and especially to John, Gemma & Mark for organizing the event.

Cheers!

**Thermal** · #56 8 Sep 2014

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Originally Posted by Pongo

I was sorry to hear about Berndt's clutch problem, but If you get fixed up soon Berndt and are heading in a westerly direction, send me a message and drop in.

L'embrayage marche encore et le voyage continueé a l'ouest demain. Un message est dejá envoyeé a Mark et Gemma hier, mais je n'ai recú un reponse pas encore.
Funny how an "adventure" can expand your vocabulary!
Berndt

**Moto Phoenix** · #57 9 Sep 2014

Hi everyone,

Arrived home in UK yesterday (Monday) afternoon.

Just wanted to say what a great time I had, what lovely people you all are and what a beautiful spot to hold an event.

Thanks to Gemma, Mark and John for getting it all together and to all the contributors for their presentations on Saturday.

I recommend to anyone who has not been to check this out and I will surely return next year unless I am off in distant lands.

**Gengisk25** · #58 9 Sep 2014

Thanks you All and especially to John for the good time spent together in such a beautiful and quiet place.

Yes I will be back next year, along with my duo I hope.
for your viewing pleasure below some pictures.
my favorite is the one ... the first opening of my tent early morning view of the lake ...
beautiful roads to all, and drive carefully !