The ATIC´s 3rd International meeting in Tuscany/Italy, 1th May
to 3th May of 1997
The 3rd meeting of the Africa Twin Internetional Connection (ATIC)
took place in spring 1997 in Tuscany/Italy. The main manager
Beppe Burlando was able to offer room for all visitors in
an old castle,
called La Cavallara, located directly in the beautiful mountains
of Tuscany at
44004'49.1''N / 11040'23.8''E WGS84
(data provided by Adi). The castle was
currently under renovation, so the comfort was
quite low (no showers, one toilet, cold water, ...), but I think nobody
had any problems with that, because the team spirit was really excellent
and so nobody realized the minor problems :-)
To get an image of the meeting, just have a look
at the pictures below. Clicking on them may give you higher detailed
scans. Thanks to Phoebus Katsanos, Michael Krebs and me :-) for
providing the pictures. Of course all are (c) 1997 by the ATIC :-)
Still silence and empty chairs in La Cavallara. Nothing more to
hear than the barking of Satan ... But the first visitors arrived early.
Thomas (M.) was one of the first ones, although he had the longest trip.
So you know, why you need a 45l tank in Europe: No breaks for filling up :-)
Most of the visitors arrived in the late afternoon. La Cavallara
gave a beautiful scenery to the arriving ATICs and the Greek Fanta
(?) found its friends rather quickly (watch Thomas (B.) before the
first taste).
Lots of space behind the house for all the tents and bikes.
There were a maximum of 30 @s and lots more of people ...
The next day Beppe & Lorenzo offered two leaded routes through the
beautiful landscape and cities of Tuscany.
We started in a giant convoi ...
... but it became shorter quite soon: The first rear wheel bearing went
broken (5 more should follow on this meeting !).
So Andreas @ had to overnight in a small town. Imagine the
faces of the people, seeing an @ without driver and rear wheel, simply
towed to a lamp.
But now it was Sakis´ time: See him at doing really hard work in
changing
all the broken bearings. Stefan´s opinion about Honda parts
doesn´t need any explanation :-)
In the evening Beppe (white hat) and Lorenzo (blue pullover) had organized
an excellent
dinner with lots of pasta and italian vine.
Well Adrian, the bottle is really empty :-) Marco has already switched to
tea ...
Some more transports of rear wheels on the next day and a second
excursion on the twisted roads in Tuscany ...
Some of us visited Rimini to have a bath in the mediterranean sea. As I
heard, sand in the trousers makes a lot of fun, while biking :-) At least
afterwards you won´t complain on the bad @ seat any more !
However, like everything else this meeting ended quite soon. After fixing
the last bearings on the morning of the fourth day (see the last pictures)
everyone went home.
So again our special thanks go to Beppe, Lorenzo and all their helping
hands, without them this great event wouldn´t have been
possible !
If you are interested in these and lots more of pictures from all the
ATIC meetings, including high res
Kodak Photo CD
images you may
contact me
to get a copy of our first official ATIC CDROM !
The participants of the meeting, include email addresses to get in contact:
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