Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby johnny 5 » Sun May 14, 2023 11:30 am

Home safe and sound buy 12.30 thanks everyone for a great weekend
Hope to see you all again soon :D
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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby Al » Sun May 14, 2023 8:25 pm

Got home @ 16:45 after a couple of coffee stops to ease a few aches!! Great weekend as usual and nice to catch up with people we haven’t seen for a while.
Thanks Steve for the organising the weekend and leading us around some of the more obscure highways & bye ways of N Wales and hope everyone had a safe trip home.

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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby JamesL » Mon May 15, 2023 9:29 am

A massive thank you from me too - great to meet everyone and get away from the rat race for a couple of days.

Safe home at ~1:30; wall to wall traffic for a lot of it so gave up trying to 'make progress' as too stress inducing. A couple of nice bits though - not exactly what I'd had in mind but little Garmin clearly has an unpublished and always-on setting called 'inventive'...

And a huge thank you to Steve for his local acting unpaid role as tour leader!

See youall next time, all the best, James

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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby slparry » Mon May 15, 2023 5:32 pm

You're welcome guys.

Apologies for the detours that had to be made thanks to the relevant councils closing roads, and starting road works, and the police closing routes because of accidents :)

The final detour I made was as we got onto the A5 at Corwen for the trip down to Llangollen, my sat nav links to my phone for traffic information and it was telling me there was a 1 hour 15 minute queue to get into Llangollen on the A5. I quickly decided to route onto the A5104 which is a bit of a bind as it's now average camera limited to 50 mph, but I figured travelling at 50 was preferable to trying to get a large group filtering down a twisty section of A5 :)

Plus it meant having to come down the horseshoe pass again, even if a badly placed pothole almost caught me out while on m line :)

It was great seeing everyone again, I imbibed way too much red wine on Saturday evening so can't recall a lot of it :)
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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby GRAgusta » Mon May 15, 2023 6:41 pm

We had a family visit in Nottingham yesterday, and back home this afternoon.

Super time in Wales meeting up with old friends. Thanks to Steve for organising, and what happens in Great Orme remains in Great Orme .... :shock: :evil: :lol:
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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby Ryan » Tue May 16, 2023 7:42 am

Sorry for late post arrived home safe and sound thank you Steve for organising another great weekend had a fabulous time great to see everyone
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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby templen » Tue May 16, 2023 11:56 am

An excellent meet and some great roads that I've never seen before.

It was good to meet some of the southern contingent and have some crake - the rugby club fight outside on Saturday night added some entertainment.

Many thanks to Steve for organising.

Here's to the next one.

Cheers all.
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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby ianc53 » Tue May 16, 2023 7:50 pm

Thanks also from me (and Sue) for the great job organising the weekend Steve (including the weather). It was an excellent trip - bike now officially run in!

Got back yesterday after an overnight stop on Hadrian's Wall and lovely drive up through the Borders.

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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby popsky » Thu May 18, 2023 10:28 am

Another excellent weekend Steve if a little strange not to have Mrs Popsky with me. The weather was the icing on the cake and the less said about the Great Orme the better :mrgreen:
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Re: Welsh Weekend 2023 (UPDATE)

Postby Archie » Thu May 18, 2023 12:24 pm

Thanks for organising the weekend Steve, I had a great time.


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