I am delighted to announce that I have recently been contacted by Interfolio, the publishers of Ted's books.

Jupiter's Travels is being reprinted in French following Ted's return to live in France, and it will be launched at our meeting in September.

Ted will be coming to the meeting with the publishers, and he has agreed to give a 40 minute talk.

This is great news, and an ideal opportunity to come and listen to one of the greatest inspirations of personal adventure travel. Get registered quickly to ensure your place.

The announcement will be going up on the webpage very shortly.

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Can you tell me how many of the presentors are talking in english?
i am not speaking french, but im thinking about visiting....

didnt managed it to the german meeting due to work.

We will have some bilingual translators French/English who will work with the presenters, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem. There will be more French speaking presenters than English. It all worked out O.K. last year.

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-''It is better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction''. ( Herman Siu)
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!!!!!! Language is not a border, it's a link, not a wall but a bridge

Ride safe and cool
Roger

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I'd update you with where we are with presentations/workshops this year. as there has been a slight delay in updating the main page, but this will resolve itself soon.

1. Thierry Floreck will be showing us his latest video of his current trip to Mongolia and return via the BAM road.

2. Marie-Hélène and Jo Camblong, will be showing us a photographic diaporama of their trip to Laos and Cambodia. If the photos are as good as last years presentation on Iran, we're in for a real treat!!

3. Gerard Saouter will be telling us what he went through in the run up to retirement with his short but essential preparatory trip to Turkey.

4. There will be a really interesting presentation of a retro trip to Africa in the 1970's. Just waiting for the registration and full detail on this.

5. We have a couple of workshops planned. A paramedic/pharmacist about putting together first aid kits, and by popular demand after last years meeting, a repeat performance of how to lift up a fallen bike.

The main event this year is an hour long film narrated by Ted Simon about the first part of his first round the world trip ( 1973-1977). For all of us who have read and have been inspired by ''Jupiter's Travels'' this will be a unique opportunity. Ted will be with us in person, and the meeting will also be the launch pad for ''Les Voyages de Jupiter'', re-edited and reprinted in French.


This promises to be a really good meeting, and registrations are coming in steadily. The facilities are excellent and the food and ambience can't be faulted. There is a numbers limit we can accept to comply with the campsite licence, so please register NOW to make sure you have your place reserved.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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-''It is better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction''. ( Herman Siu)
-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

Hi everyone, things are warming up here, literally. It was 32c yesterday and it's already 24C at 8.30am local time today.

The meeting is coming together now, and i'm putting out a request for an experienced volunteer photographer for the meeting, and here's why.

As you will have read, Ted Simon is coming to the meeting, not only to talk to us, but also to re-launch Jupiter's Travels, which has been re-edited and translated into French. This is actually a big deal in France, as not many of the travel books we know have been translated for the French market.

In conjunction with Ted's publishers we have created significant interest with the adventure travel magazines, and editors of the major publications will be coming for the launch and interviews.

We need to record this years event with quality photos and hopefully a video, so if anyone who has the skills and the equipment, is planning on coming to the meeting and would be interested in doing this, please could they contact me or Roger Primout by PM, or get signed up straight away as a volunteer.

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-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

This an administration type plea from me.!!!!

I know there are many of you out there who are planning to come to the meeting, and those who have said they will be coming. It's an administrative nightmare if everyone leaves it to the last minute to register. There is a huge amount of work to do preparing badges and printing registration summaries for the campsite, allocating resources and generally getting things prepared so everyone ( including me ) can have a good time.

It's not long now till the meeting and I would really appreciate it if you could please register. If you find you can't come it's O.K. to cancel, but it's damn difficult finding extra food and camping facilities if you just turn up on spec and everything has been allocated

The venue is not a big camp site, but it is very well run and super clean and friendly. We are restricted to numbers to comply with the campsite licence,(120) so it's not open ended. Please register now to book your place.


We still have an opening for a presentation, and don't worry about language. We have bilingual volunteers helping with presentations.

Look forward to welcoming you, help us make it an even better event than last year!

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-''It is better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction''. ( Herman Siu)
-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

Hi John

I'm travelling up from Spain around that time so I've just registered and can do a presentation if you need to fill a spot, either on Morocco or Orkney/Outer Hebrides.

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Thanks Tim, have sent you an e.mail. Scotland would be Great!

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-''It is better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction''. ( Herman Siu)
-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

Hi Mr P
I am trying to book/register a cabin & food for the Saturday night (10th) at the French HUBB event. But unfortunately it is saying that there is an error on the online form.
Is there any other way of registering?
Kind regards
Mike

Hi Mike,

I've forwarded your message to Grant and Susan. Not sure what the issue is, as i 've not had any other queries. Can you tell me exactly where it all goes wrong? I'll wait for a few days to get a reply from them, and see if there is a problem with the registration form. I will also run a test registration to see If I get the same response. I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

P.

Update- just run a test and it registered O.K., If you want to send me your details by PM I'll do it for you and get the registration sent on to you for payment.

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-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

My good lady and I are likely going to sign up, work will make it hard to be there early on the Friday so we'll miss some talks but don't want to miss Ted's talk. I hope I'm not wrong in assuming that it'll be the Saturday night?

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Hi,

France meeting usually kicks off around 5.00pm on friday night with one or two talks, then buffet dinner. Ted will be there on Friday night and Saturday, and I am planning his talk ( he's actually showing a film) and launching a new edition of Jupiter's Travels on Saturday afternoon.

Please register as soon as you can. Thanks.

john.

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-''It is better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction''. ( Herman Siu)
-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

Hi Mike, I sent you another message after you sent me your details. I need your e.mail addy to get the copies of the registrations sent to you. Please send either by PM or visitor message. You will also find my e.mail addy on the France announcement pagen if you prefer to do that.

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-''It is better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction''. ( Herman Siu)
-'' Live life then give life '' (www.lltgl.org.uk)

Missed out last year, as I was away travelling. This year I will be on my way to Portugal and maybe Morocco so I'm back. Just booked and paid and looking forward to seeing y'all again. Guy