Thanks to everyone involved!

Thanks to Max for Mudcat - without it I would not have been in Barrow.
Thanks to Wolfgang for starting the Euro-Gatherings.
Thanks to Greg (a/k/a Skipjack K8) for organizing this Euro-Gathering.
Thanks to Erik for picking me up on Thursday night and driving me to Barrow and to Hull and back - including the crazy u-turn to the curry-ship.
Thanks to Dawn, Freja and Matthew (Viking's housemates ;-) ) for bearing and feeding me Thursday and Friday.
Thanks to Greg's family for letting us use the priory for the weekend.
Thanks to Conny for being such a sensible dog (no, I won't thank Aragon ;-) )
Thanks to Dave Bryant and Linda (Essex Girl) for driving me to Stansted which made it possible for me to attend the Six Bell session to its very end and saved me the hassle of flying from Leeds to Heathrow and trainriding from there to Stansted.
Thanks to Les from Hull for leading the cultour of Hull.
Thanks to Linda Kelly for the CD - I will listen to it later today. *)
Thanks to Oakle[t|y] for finally delivering Morticia's money to me.
Thanks to Oakle[t|y] for the CDs - I am enjoying "Asleep Behind the Settee" at the moment. *)
Thanks to Letty and mooman (Richard) for helping my Euro-gatheringcollecting friends with lots of Euro-coins.
Thanks to Noreen for giving me hard times (you put tears in my eyes again) ;-)
Thanks to Kate for the picture of Hull I won in the raffle.
Thanks to Wilfried for the "dangerous cyclist" badge.
Thanks to Dave Bryant for the various badges.

Thanks to everyone for loads of brilliant music.

Thanks to everyone for loads of fun.

And special thanks to everyone in the Six bells for not throwing things at me to stop me when I tried to sing my sad attempt of a song.

(For lyrics, see below...)

And last, but definitely not least:

Thanks to Richard for volunteering to organize next year's EuroGathering.

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*) thanks to Mudcrash by now I have listened to Linda's CD as well, after listening to Cara.
Both CDs are wonderful!

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As the song has been mentioned by KJ here in this thread, here are the words:

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Cycling is fun

Chorus:
So [[[Not on first and last time]]]
Cycling is fun, Cycling is fun!

There is the rain a-dropping
It pours with no hope that it is stopping
All my clothes are soaked wet
May it be from the rain or from the sweat

Chorus

There is the road ascending
With a gradient that's outstanding
To the valleys it does not stick
It has to run over every peak

Chorus

There is the wind a-blowing
That always keeps my bike a-slowing
It's coming from the front at me
But that's where it is expected to be

Chorus

There is the car a-passing
Between me and it there fits nothing
Why are they passing me So near
Do they think a cyclist's life is not dear

Chorus

There is the thirst a-drying
It feels as if I were a-frying
With all the sweat I leave behind
I need to drink water pint after pint

Chorus

There is the muscle aching
It hurts like there were bones a-breaking
Kicking the pedals gives me pain
While I am pedal ling almost in vain

Chorus

There is the sun a-blazing
Creating heat that is amazing
Every sunblocker must fail
I'm turning re-ed like the royal mail

Chorus

So because of all
the rain adropping
the road ascending
the wind ablowing
the car apassing
the thirst adrying
the muscle aching
the sun ablazing

Chorus

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(words by a German cyclist with the name Andreas Waechter, tune: none/several/whatever...)