Brouwland Trip

[Cellar_Rat]

Is there a plan, wise one ?

[mrdexter]

* clears diary in anticipation *

[lockwood1956]

Their open weekend is the weekend of the 12th June 2011...


nothing definite yet, but watch this space

[lockwood1956]

loose plan thus far is like this:


Boys from Aberdeen pick up the minibus/van, drive southwards to Dover, picking up itinerant winemakers along the way.... visit Brouwland, sleep in field with Luc Volders and his gang....drink lots of wine, buy lots of stuff, drive home.

If Aberdeen boys not going then the charabanc will start perhaps in Edinburgh or Knottingley


or the other way round, bus starts in south, works way to hull.....etc etc


should be a right laugh, a boozy weekend in Belgium (there is tons of kit to play with at Brouwland

[koomber]

Oh Lordy. The missus has expressed an interest to go!

[lockwood1956]

She realises its a weekendf in a field with a load of drunken Dutchmen right? (well there will be women too...Luc will have Els with him, dont think M is available this year though)

[lockwood1956]

So....likely schedule

leave Friday June 1th...return Monday june 13th (which is a bank holiday in Belgium)

inbetween ...drunkenness and silicone bung buying.....


who is in?

if you cant go, and want some stuff, im sure we could pick it up for you

[mrdexter]

Me, Me, I want to get drunk in a field and buy some bungs. Not necessarily in that order.

[lockwood1956]

[lockwood1956]

oooo

17 seater minibus...

pickup 09.00 fri 10th return 23.00 mon 13th

£ 529.51


if 12 of us went (5 seat spaces for bung storage) that would be £44.08 each (plus fuel)

[lockwood1956]

Aberdeen-beverlo-aberdeen is 1630 miles

@20mpg thats £411 in fuel

plus ferry



so i reckon around £100 each should do it

[lockwood1956]

maybe 3 cars would be cheaper....im not sure


there is alweays the option of boarding the ferry at Hull as foot passengers and hiring cars in Rotterdam or zeebrugge?

[goldseal]

I'd vote to keep it simple - one minibus.

£100 per head isn't too bad - it covers vehicle hire, fuel and ferry.

[lockwood1956]

I'd vote to keep it simple - one minibus.

£100 per head isn't too bad - it covers vehicle hire, fuel and ferry.

once we have final numbers...i think the planning will become easier

(and I elect you to organise it Pete )

[Cellar_Rat]

I'm in.

Do we want to think about splitting up the driving too - I am happy to do a bit. I am sure we could get documents to the right place in this techno age!