MLU / CMP meeting, Normandy, June 2009

[Alex van de Wetering]

The day of the MLU-meeting I was a little ill and we started the day quite late. Later on, we were held up in Arromanches and arrived at Longues-sur-Mer for the MLU meeting somewhere in the afternoon, a few hours after the start of the meeting. We were walking around the Dutch camp when a GMC, Aussie Chev and Bedford QL also arrived for the MLU meeting. It was fun talking to these guys, although the club was quite small. I guess everyone had other commitments that day...so eventually some MLU members did visit Longues, but spread over the whole day, making a real meet-up difficult.

Anyway, we met Swiss Chris, John Hedges, Lang, Hanno and Jim Sewell at the campsite later in the week and caught up on some CMP/MLU talk anyway. Dropped the bike tires for Keith Webb in the back of John hedges' truck.

The Etreham campsite was super and it was fun being surrounded by MV's all the time. I remember coming out of the tent one morning, when I found a very nice Humber Snipe right in front of our tent....so walked back in the tent to get the camera. I finished the brakes on my BSA bike on the campsite in the morning-sun and even drove some km's along the coast, like intended