14ème Open de France de Brass Bands Forums

hippypair

We arrived home last night after 31/2 weeks in france which included the Brass band Rally at Amboise.Pat and I would like to add our thanks to Ken and Jenny for organising a great rally at Amboise As others have said its good to meet up with old friends and make new ones.Thanks Joe (lpdrifter) for your photos.
Now looking forward to Lincoln in 10 days time.

Terry (hippypair).

CatherineandSteve · SW Rally Co-ordinator

Hi Terry & Pat,

Glad you had a great time and had a safe journey, where did you end up to in Brittany !
Catherine & I would also like to thank both of you for the evening meal on the Saturday it was very thoughtful. Very Happy

Regards C&S

zoro

Hi all

Just to add our thanks to Ken and Jen for organizing the meet.

Must also thank everyone we met for the good advice given as it was our first venture overseas with the van. we had an absolutely fantastic time and can't wait to go back to France later in the year

Will post some pictures in due course

Once again thanks everyone
Steve & Jo (zoro)

pneumatician

Many thanks to Ken and Jenny. We will definately put this Festival on our proposed list for next year. It was a pleasure to meet you all and we trust the remainder of your Holidays was as enjoyable as ours.

We arrived back yesterday so tond of thigs on the "to-do-list"

Val & Steve

gaspode · Moderator

Hi everyone

We arrived home yesterday after a great trip.

Thanks to all of you for the compliments on the meet, we certainly enjoyed it. Thanks also from Jen and I to all of you for coming along and making the meet such a success, it wouldn't have been the same without you all.

Several members made this their first MHF meet and judging by their comments they'll be going to more in the future. It was really good for us to meet some new faces and I hope we made all you strangers feel very welcome. We even collected some potential new members on the way to Amboise and during our subsequent travels through France.

When we first planned the meet we thought it unlikely that more than a handful of members would turn up - how wrong we were. Twenty odd vans and three tents made a great turn out and opens the way to planning more overseas meets in the future. I'll be surprised if this meet isn't repeated next year if the favourable comments are anything to go by.

Some great photos posted by Joe and more promised by Zoro, we look forward to seeing them Steve. I haven't had a chance to go through ours yet but I'll be hoping to post some - and some video if I can get the files small enough. Any others of you with photos, we want to see them so get posting.

CatherineandSteve · SW Rally Co-ordinator

Hi Ken & Jen,

Glad to hear you have arrived back safely, just wondering where your travels took you after Amboise. Very Happy

Steve

PS Like your new van.

zoro

BigWhiteBox

Hi to all Amboise veterans,

We just got back from our trip around France which started at the Amboise Brass Band Festival.
It was a great start to our holiday and we will probably call in there next year.
The site was good value for money and the town was just the right size. Not too big to get lost in but with plenty of interesting bits!

Many thanks to Ken and Jen for suggesting the venue.

See you next year?

Sally and David

gaspode · Moderator

Hi All

I've been trying to upload some video here without much success, I'll try again tomorrow. In the meantime here's a link to YouTube: