EuroGathering 2005 Countdown

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 04:26 AM

Well...that didn't work very well did it!

201...try again!

EuroGathering 2005: The Final Countdown

for all final details and arrangements!

Peace

Ricardo

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 04:13 AM

....nearly there!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 04:13 AM

At 200, let the thread be transferred to a new one!

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 08 Apr 05 - 02:50 AM

21 days - 3 weeks.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:50 PM

Vingt-en-un jours

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 04:59 PM

Sabato matina por mio por la mercado alla La Rochelle anche Domenica sulla aqua soave della Venezia Verde.
Parliamo poco Italiano, mai non escritorio bueno, mi dispiacio.
Alla prossima
Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 02:38 PM

My dear mooman - please start a new thread again: the Definitive Final Instructions in due time (at April 13, when I have to order my price reduced tickets).
- Give at first the place of the gathering first again, please, and where to phone you just in case simmering in Niort without a track to La Garenne [?].
- Invite the (non)participants to post their interesting questions on this thread and to confine the really important contributions about organization, floor space, and contributions to feeding to the new thread.
[I'm alarmed by the necessitiy to sift through 193 posts to gather substantial information. Yea, I should have copied and pasted your informations in time to a special notice board for my own use].
- For breakfast I recommend what the French general defending Straßburg took in 1793: vin blanc du pays and a hard cheese. I tried it, too, and it tastes much better than the average French breakfast they serve nowadays with so called coffee and a brioche.

Eager to meet you
W.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 07:34 AM

Oh, but what if l'aerophone should fall into "Le Canal en Avril", peut-etre???!

Then the sound of rejoicing shall ring around La Venise Verte peut-etre...?

Ricardo

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:39 AM

Ricardo, call that thread "The Final Countdown"
Should the last ten entries be Niort10, Niort9, Niort8 ... ?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Noreen
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:17 AM

Oh, but what if l'aerophone should fall into "Le Canal en Avril", peut-etre???!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 06:11 AM

Decision time folks!

Would you like your "traditional EuroGathering outing" (this year a trip by punt on the Venise Vert canals: maybe with instruments...Greg with "Le Canal en Avril" sur l'aerophone peut-etre? Everyone might also get the chance to "power" the punts and risk falling in when the pole gets stuck as it inevitably does sometimes!) to be on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning? (Some people indicated they might like to go to La Rochelle market on Saturday morning).

I'll start a new countdown thread when Mudguard's automatic clickometer reaches 21 days/three weeks!

Best regards,

Ricardo

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 Apr 05 - 02:44 AM

22 days.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 04:31 PM

Are we absolutely sure it must be held in France? Couldn't we agree on Walton on the Naze in off-season November?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 03:30 PM

Eric, we'll miss you! (And Noreen, and any other stalwarts unable to come along.) Which reminds me: Any news of Fibs' trip to Washington (or not)? Or Letty?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 08:50 AM

Use the rhythm method, and be quick as the new Pope may ban it!
Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:59 AM

Bad news indeed. What are we going to do without our rythm section, Viking?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:54 AM

Eric, you are not allowed not to come! Naughty boy! Come!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 06 Apr 05 - 07:46 AM

Sad to say, despite all the kind offers I have received, I won't be able to come. The air fare from Stanstead is way above the family budget. I wish you all the very greatest of times as they have been in the past. This will be the first euro gathering I have missed.I will miss it sorely and your excellent company.

Have a great time.

Eric

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: CET
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:32 PM

We are booked at the local hotel.

Edmund

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:29 PM

Hey, that was MudGuard's line!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:14 PM

23 days

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 05:01 PM

Hi Wolfgang,

I'll do the maths and check with the Jerrams and get back to you shortly on that. With Andreas in the house a good proportion of the floorspace is already taken up! (about 2.5 x 1.5 metres perhaps if he curls up a bit?)

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 04:55 PM

I'll be coming by car and bringing my tent.

jOhn, you didn't turn up at last year's do in Barrow, just across the river from Hull9.


Doug C

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 04:32 PM

Motorhome moi s'il vous plait.
Merci mon ami.
Jean Giok

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 04:11 PM

If flooring means sleeping on the floor: I am going to do that.
Oakley doesn't want to do flooring. He wants to do Fibuling ;-)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 03:04 PM

heloo,
I;m not going, becase of its to far away.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Wolfgang
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 02:59 PM

Richard,

if it is less of a problem if I'm B&Bing that's no problem since I'm more or less undecided. In that case, would I call the B&B from here?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 02:52 PM

OK...as it's looming now perhaps we need to recap who's flooring, who's tenting, who's motor car-ing, who's mobile homing and whose B&Bing so that I know more or less where everyone will be.

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 12:03 PM

No, it is first booking - first space.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 11:34 AM

First to sleep - first to get space

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Wolfgang
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 07:52 AM

I've made up my mind about where to stay at night:
With my sleeping bag on a floor space (assuming that there is enough of this).

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 05 Apr 05 - 04:10 AM

24 days.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 04 Apr 05 - 06:51 AM

25 days.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 Apr 05 - 11:19 AM

26 days.

No, I don't think THIS means you are psychic.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Apr 05 - 03:26 AM

I knew you were going to say that! Does this mean I'm psychic?
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 02 Apr 05 - 03:11 AM

27 days!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 03:11 PM

I'm so sorry, but may I draw your attention to Mudcatter involved in church sex scandal?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 03:14 AM

28 days - 4 weeks!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 30 Mar 05 - 05:49 PM

29 days!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 05:39 PM

So my 16 times table is wrong, as a Scot the only thing I can count properly is money.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 05:19 PM

Eric,

La Rochelle airport is about 45 minutes and I can certainly collect you from there and take you back if you can come via that route.

In hope!

Richard

P.S. Take no note of Giok's fault metric conversion! (8>)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 05:18 PM

63km or 30 miles?

30miles is 48km ...
63km is ~ 40miles.

30 days to go.

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 05:13 PM

Eric, if it's a matter of transport to and from La Rochelle airport I'm sure someone will be able to provide transport. I'll volunteer if someone will come with me for a guide. It really wouldn't be the same without you!

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 01:51 PM

About 63 Kms or 30 miles according to my map.
G

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 01:48 PM

Well, I am trying to develop a cunning plan! More cunning than the rat Oakley has sewn into his trousers during the winter time.

I can't leave Cleckheaton before 16.30 on Friday 29th April (As I have to go to school and Mrs V won't write me a note for my headache!) I need to be back on Monday, at some time as Mrs V won't write me a note for Tuesday either!!

How far is La Rochelle airport from Niot9 ?

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: Freso
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 01:01 PM

Just for the (public) record, I don't think I'llwon't be going this year anyway. :/ I've a lot of sailing practice (and possibly some ropemaking, too) to do in the days surrounding the gathering, and I'm afraid I won't be able to afford losing the 3-4 days of school if I am to sail with the tourists with a safe mind... I'll try again next year though! :)

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: GUEST,MudGuardGuest
Date: 29 Mar 05 - 01:02 AM

31 days ...

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Mar 05 - 09:06 AM

32 days ...

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: mooman
Date: 28 Mar 05 - 07:33 AM

Hi Eric,

Why not give us your possible leaving and going back times and see whether the great collective Mudcat Superconciousness can come up with a workable solution?

We must exhaust every avenue of investigation before giving up...!

Richard

Subject: RE: EuroGathering 2005 Countdown
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Mar 05 - 01:54 AM

. I just can't get travel to coincide with my leaving times.

Try the other way! Leave at a time so you can travel ;-)

Shit !! Merde !

Scheiße. It won't be the same without you!