Geoff
A certain Kettenkrad driving mutual friend of ours has a saying
"when you have 2 Germans you have a club, when you have
3 Germans you have 2 clubs". Hopefully all involved with Corowa
will get along together and the above will not be the case. ;-)
From the prespective of someone who stayed at a motel for last
year's Corowa (and I wasn't the only one), I don't see why the fuss over which "group" you are aligned with. At Beltring, you
camped: Andreas, Regina, Fran and I stayed at a B&B 1/2 hour
away. I don't think that alienated us? Any of us who have been
to Beltring know that at a large event you circulate amongst what
interests you. Thus one day was arena (tanks) another day the
stalls and so on, if anything, that enhanced the experience not
detracted from it. Whilst at the same time you were hanging around the Blitz crowd and a certain Bren Carrier. Due to the size of Beltring you could have easily been at a seperate event to us, yet we all had a great time AND still socialized together.
Corowa, like Beltring, is growing. I would not like it to fall into the
same traps that has Beltring with the commercialisation, over crowding and 'monster by the tail' issues. Having seen Ball Park
and as an armour owner, I think that if multiple tracked AFVs are attending the event, then the airport is the only sensible place for them, either that, or they have to be static - which defeats
the whole purpose.
Richard Farrant and Geoff - if you do decide to go to Corowa
2008, please email me a couple of weeks beforehand so we
can make arrangements to catch up with each other.
Regards
Doug
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