ALPINA South East Meet in Sunday 1st October 2006

Post by **neil** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:25 pm

Here's some more from me and James :

Mine -> Here

James -> Here

The first 3 photos James has nominated for caption competitions....

Post by D4 » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:35 am

good turnout... weather was a bit hit and miss though. Nice to see the regular faces and some new ones too..
My Pics - > Here

Tony's Pics - > My Pics - > Here

mnk303 · Post by **mnk303** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:23 pm

So sorry to all that i did not make the 1st Oct visit, my wife was rushed in to hospital...can I come to the next meeting please??

Post by **neil** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:38 pm

Martin

Hope you wife is ok.... There is always another meet - Look forward to seeing you tommorow night in Hathern

Post by D4 » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:20 pm

Martin - echo Neil's comments - I hope your wife is ok.

Post by **Charles** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:18 pm

Sounds like you all had a great time. Sorry I couldn't be there but, as I explained previously, Sundays are now dominated by rugby and last weekend was the Grove Festival.

The good news is that my squad came home with the silverware so we are all very pleased as I am sure you can imagine

hythe · Post by **hythe** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:21 pm

Charles, when are you going to sort out the Home Counties meet?

Post by **Charles** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:25 pm

hythe wrote:Charles, when are you going to sort out the Home Counties meet?

As I posted before on that thread - http://www.fastsaloons.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1274 - there is clearly interest but I have now got extremely busy at work and so wouldn't be able to do the organisation the justice it deserves

If someone would like to take up the baton - we have names and suggested venues already - then that would be the way to get the meet off the ground.

Post by D4 » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:22 am

i definately think we need to have a 'destination' type meet rather than another 'Pub Meet' whilst these are enjoyable the drive there and back can often be the best part and that depends on what route and weather you encounter...

Because winter is on it's way it might be best to delay any meet of this type till early spring..

Thoughts?

B9-200 · Post by **B9-200** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:56 am

D4 wrote:
Because winter is on it's way it might be best to delay any meet of this type till early spring..

Thoughts?

Agreed. I was at the Hampshire BMW Drivers pub meet on Sunday with Simon (Alcorn) and he also suggested the idea of an Alpina meet down there next year.

As previously mentioned I will make enquiries at The Vyne and post on here when I have more info, which sounds a bit like I'm volunteering to organise it...

KevinB10 · Post by **KevinB10** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:34 am

Welll done Pete!

Geoff · Post by **Geoff** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:07 pm

Good to see everyone on Sunday and catch up with Andy Augustou and Niki for the first time since Gaydon 2005. Someone I spoke to on Sunday said that it would be good to have a weekend in say the Lake District next year with a stay over instead of clearing off straight after the meet. I used to be in the BMW Drivers Club before it folded and we used to have a weekend every year in the Lakes which was always well attended. It would also be handier for some of our northern brothers to get to.

alpina46 · Post by **alpina46** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:46 pm

I'd be up for that

Post by D4 » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:20 am

yes the lakes is definately doing next year and I think one of Kev's relations owns a pub/guest house up that way that could probably accomodate a few of us at least...

so Pete is up for organising the southern/hampshire meet.

Kev! do you wanna try and sort things out for the lakes? or anyone else who is up that way.

Ideally i'd like to get a calender of meets (say every two months) around the UK pencilled in by Christmas so that we can have some sort of plan for 2007.

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ALPINA South East Meet in Sunday 1st October 2006

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