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| NOTE: The Portugal rally has been and gone. We had an excellent time and
it can all be seen on the web site at this
link We are now planning for the Italian Lakes in July 2009. If you are interested, please contact Alan (see contact details for emails etc).
This trip is open to all members of MANHOC who
are also members of HOC and have been out on at least 4 rides with us (so we
can see who you are...). Places will be limited - but nothing is finalised
yet.
The plan is leave England on Sunday 19th July
2009. We travel for 4 days (3 nights stay) arriving at Lake Garda in Italy
on Wednesday 22nd July. We then stay in 2 or 3 bedroomed chalets for 1 week
before travelling back to England to arrive home on Sat 1st or Sunday 2nd
August (depending on how long we want to take getting home).
I have attached a copy of the brochure of the
place we will be staying. The maximum numbers we can book (assuming no-one
else takes it before us) is 1 x 3-bedroomed chalet, 3 x 2-bedroomed chalets
(sleeps 4) and 4 x 2-bedroomed chalets (sleeps 3).
I have attached a preliminary spreadsheet with
some costs on. I think I have included everything (apart from drinking
money) but please make your own mind up if the figures look reasonable. The
spreadsheet is adjustable depending on how many people share a bike, share a
hotel room or share a chalet. Have a play adjusting the numbers in yellow
and see what you think. Click on this
link to open
it.
I have also done a first pass at a route down
there. This is in Autoroute 2006 format click
here
to download the zip file containing it - so you will need that or later to
be able to see it. I have attached a JPG file
 for
those of you without this software - but you can only view it, not change
it. To see the route yourself, you need to change some options to avoid
motorways for the European bits (I assume we will just get down to Calais as
quick as possible). If you don't know how to do this (Route->More options->
Segments- select the European sections and set the preferred option to no
motorway), then give me a call and I'll walk you through it.
At the moment, nothing is finalised. I cannot
book the chalets until September/October this year, so there is plenty of
time to think about it (and save your pennies). Sometime in August we will
have a get together of all those interested to discuss options etc.
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