French PH Meet - Beer, Food, Good Time! April?

[justin-banks]

Right, Hi all, Here's the thing, life in France is great, blah blah, quality of life, blah blah, nice people, blah.....I have been here 3 years now and it can get thoroughly boring and it is miserable outside at the moment. What I really need is a good old fashioned night out, or in, drinking lots of beer, talking about cars, French paperwork, women, men, frienships, troubles, with fellow French Based PHers.

This is a perfect forum for it as we are going to be mildly interesting or we wouldn't be here! The expat community locally is great for swapping sewing patterns but thats about it.

Here's what I thought, we could Hijack somewhere like Jasons' Chateau De Charly as it is pretty central, everyone chip in to cover him, food etc, and everyone arrive 6ish Saturdy with beer, food whatever, say hello, everyone have a nice evening getting sloshed, crash over and then leave the following day thoroughly fulfilled with car chat etc. Would be nice to put some faces to names here!

I am also happy to host at my place here in Toulouse, would be free, but this is a long haul for you Northern France peeps.

It would be a bit of work for everyone, I am 5 hours drive from Paris in Toulouse, but I think the getting away for short weekend is a good thing, wifes, partners welcome etc,

Jason? What do you think?
What does everyone think?
Can we get this going?
Can anyone be bothered?

No time like the present, Drink away your Budget woes etc!
It might even be fun, I doubt it, but it might be.
Justin.

[Mello]

Great idea (if Jason agrees - although I imagine he'll want to be full of customers soon?!). What about May bank holiday weekend, or Classic Le Mans time (Fri or Sun?)...?

Edited by Mello on Friday 28th March 17:40

[nel]

Sounds like a blast - where is Jason based? I'm up just south of Paris in a recently bought big house and would like to host a froggy PH get-together sometime, but have to say the house isn't quite ready for it yet!

[chateaucharly]

Hello, I would love to be able to host something for PHeadsers.

It would be great to talk cars etc.. the only thing is we are sadly not in a position to let everybody just crash over. We would need to charge for our rooms as this is our only source of income at the moment which at best is not enough right now.

Sorry we cant offer more but I still hope you want to use us as a venue. As Justin said we are central and the place is certainly big enough.

[justin-banks]

Hi Jason,
I assumed we would all chip in to pay for rooms, so that shouldn't be a problem, depends on numbers I guess, let see what the response is.

[Mello]

Me too. If we can get this off the ground with a suitable date I'd be happy to pay the appropriate amount, as the chateau looks wonderful... nice couple of hundred kilometre drive down for us too.

[Puggit]

As one of Jason's near neigbours (hell, we both have places on the Loire) - it would be easy to get to. Unfortunately Puggit Jnr 2 is due at the start of May, so it's a no go

[Marcellus]

Season ends for Katie and I on the 8th April, nt got a lot planned until next winter so could be up for this..

(Chateau looks great btw.....do you do weddings??)

[jim hobbs]

Sounds like an excellent idea. We will not be back in France until the end of April and my car not until 10 May. After then it would make a nice break from playing at builders.

[ted 191]

I have a place in the south, if I`m about when a date is organised I`ll try make one in

[Pvapour]

nice to see things still happen down there, will be moving to France shortly & will be looking for some decent runs, I seem to remember an English Classic car dealer near a perfume town when on one of our trips, is that you?

Edited by Pvapour on Monday 21st April 00:12

[Marcellus]

Pvapour said:

will be moving to France shortly & will be looking for ]

PVA - where abouts in France will you be moving to?

[Pvapour]

Marcellus said:

Pvapour said:

will be moving to France shortly & will be looking for ]

PVA - where abouts in France will you be moving to?

complete opposite side to you Marcellus, if I remember correctly you were going over to Chamonix? hope it's going well and as hoped

[Marcellus]

Pvapour said:

Marcellus said:

Pvapour said:

will be moving to France shortly & will be looking for ]

PVA - where abouts in France will you be moving to?

complete opposite side to you Marcellus, if I remember correctly you were going over to Chamonix? hope it's going well and as hoped

Yes we did.......great season and just tying up the details for next year!!

[bobt]

I guess this has not happened yet. If it is going to take place then please let me know. We are currently house hunting in the North Aveyron/Lot areas. (Villefranche-de-Rouergue/Figeac). Only 90 minutes from Toulouse, so would be happy if it was in that area or further north.

Justin, are you living there full time, or part time with Cheshire?

Please keep me posted, as I have not got into the habit of checking this part of the forum (yet).

A bientot.

[justin-banks]

Hi Bobt,
Just gauging response, i reckon we should try and do it this month, the sun has just come out! I am here in Toulouse full time, just keep my showroom and most of my cars in Cheshire.

I will try and get this organised, I am sure with a date we can get some affirmatives.
Justin