FRENCH FROLIC 10 - 21/8 to 28/8

[Stu160]

for the last ever Frolic.

??

I have a room if you want to share???

Stu

[campbell]

yip snooze you loose, you have only put a interest in on the last 4 frolics

[campbell]

I have a room if you want to share???

Stu

Would have been great Stu, but financially it's totally out of the question.

Great shame - I had hoped to engineer it for "next year", depending on the dates (first) and funds (second).

To perhaps answer the point I am guessing Scotty is making above (!), the first couple of frolics fell across Eilidh's birthday each time...and whilst she and James were both really young...so fecking off for a fortnight of expensive, selfish petrol action abroad was never going to be fair on the family

ISTR that this year's is one of the first to fall outwith E's birthday - but funding it is impossible. Our kitchen project went, ahem, a little over budget for starters and of course UJI's cost a bit to keep on the road the last year too.

Acht well, c'est la vie. One can't do everything. In the last 12 years, 2 Stelvios, a Ring and a Spa are still not bad going, and what's to say with all the other SE'ers experience of previous Frolics that we couldn't come up with our own version in the future I suppose?

Campbell

[alicrozier]

...and what's to say with all the other SE'ers experience of previous Frolics that we couldn't come up with our own version in the future I suppose?

Campbell

Exactament!

[campbell]

Albeit a big ask on the organisation front, and might still need Paul to "front" the contacts to the circuits perhaps?

[alicrozier]

Albeit a big ask on the organisation front, and might still need Paul to "front" the contacts to the circuits perhaps?

There are Froggies for that, JP and Claude done lots in recent years...

[alicrozier]

For info have booked the Amsterdam Hotel for myself and Dave for the Friday night - not too bad for 100E

http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/t ... ome&stext=

I've just booked the Hotel in Hamsterjam for post Zandy, sharing with UncleRon:

1. Benny & Dave
2. AndyG and the Rolfe
3. DDtB and Hendeg
4. Ali and UncleRon
5. Scotty and ?
6.

Neil, Stu, Kayfur? Anyone else I missed?


We also need to think about a Hotel for the Saturday night, part way to Macon.
I'm in favour of at least getting out of Belgium...maybe Reims? It's a 4-5 hour slog from Amsterdam (with hangover no doubt) but leaves a short 4 hour 'race to the pool' on Sunday.

[Andy G]

i think somewhere with a pool on route on the Saturday might be a great shout, once we've escaped the dam!

[hendeg]

We also need to think about a Hotel for the Saturday night, part way to Macon.
I'm in favour of at least getting out of Belgium...maybe Reims? It's a 4-5 hour slog from Amsterdam (with hangover no doubt) but leaves a short 4 hour 'race to the pool' on Sunday.

I don't know the route or area but Google Maps shows a route through Metz and Nancy rather than Reims.

I'm easy and happy to go with the group decision. No rush to get down to Macon.

[Scotty C]

happy to go with the flow. but that sounds like a good idea.

Since there was not uptake on going to Spa, im going to be spending 2-3 days playing in the alps on my way back to the UK. I did this a few years ago with a handful of SE'rs and it was a great trip. Steve Williams is up for it and i think walshy might be there for a day or so?

Scotty C off to look at routes

[neil]

happy to go with the flow. but that sounds like a good idea.

Since there was not uptake on going to Spa, im going to be spending 2-3 days playing in the alps on my way back to the UK. I did this a few years ago with a handful of SE'rs and it was a great trip. Steve Williams is up for it and i think walshy might be there for a day or so?

Scotty C off to look at routes

I'd be up for Spa. Gary and Stu sounded like their arms were twistable last time I spoke to them

[Andy G]

happy to go with the flow. but that sounds like a good idea.

Since there was not uptake on going to Spa, im going to be spending 2-3 days playing in the alps on my way back to the UK. I did this a few years ago with a handful of SE'rs and it was a great trip. Steve Williams is up for it and i think walshy might be there for a day or so?

Scotty C off to look at routes

Would love too but I'll be in the dog house enough after a 10 day absence

[alicrozier]

We also need to think about a Hotel for the Saturday night, part way to Macon.
I'm in favour of at least getting out of Belgium...maybe Reims? It's a 4-5 hour slog from Amsterdam (with hangover no doubt) but leaves a short 4 hour 'race to the pool' on Sunday.

I don't know the route or area but Google Maps shows a route through Metz and Nancy rather than Reims.

I'm easy and happy to go with the group decision. No rush to get down to Macon.

Don't know the area either! Nancy looks OK, will be slightly quicker/easier drive by the looks.

[Sanjøy]

i think somewhere with a pool on route on the Saturday might be a great shout, once we've escaped the dam!

It will take more than a pool to wash the filth off, Babblefish states the French for bleach is agent de blanchiment.

[hendeg]

I'd be up for Spa. Gary and Stu sounded like their arms were twistable last time I spoke to them

I'm going to give Spa a miss but I may be up for a route through the Alps on the way back instead.