29 - 30.6.2013: RoadsterGate Tour de Lux 2013

[colintf]

Hopefully everybody has received the revised version as I was confused when I read the first version.

Claude is organising a table in Larochette for 16 of us on Sunday night, we're not going to the Portuguese restaurant but the one in town we used in 2009. If you don't want to go please let him know.

Dawn is brilliant at navigating, however when she navigates I drive and I can't take pictures

thankyou Claude

See you tomorrow everyone

[adrianclifford]

Pearl's packed, washed and raring to go.

There's car parts in it as usual and, along with Dave the Bear, Flat Eric's in too.

Hopefully, there's room for Dawn and I and a bag or two .

[Dieter K]

And don't forget a warm coat for the lady. Looks like the autumn is near ... from the wheather point of view.

Have a save ride. See you all tomorrow.

[British Steel]

I wish all friends a good Journey, come all healthy to the TDL and let us have a great weekend of fun.
For all they have washed the Car, tomorrow is sun and rainstorm, be careful please.
Looking forward to see you
klaus

[colintf]

I am half way and can't wait

[Herbie]

G'morning, almost ready for the off *yawns* ... but taking it easy ! See y'all later, have a safe trip everyone

[colintf]

G'morning, almost ready for the off *yawns* ... but taking it easy ! See y'all later, have a safe trip everyone

Gut Fahrt Herbie
Stay safe and see you later

[Dave_T]

Sorry we won't be joining you again this year (difficult time of year), hope you all have a safe journey & a great weekend!

Dave & Rhona

[Steffi]

We´re almost ready to start, just have to finish work than pack my bag
take Flat Erica and off we are
See you all later on

[colintf]

Sorry we won't be joining you again this year (difficult time of year), hope you all have a safe journey & a great weekend!

Dave & Rhona

Thanks Dave, you know that we will be thinking of you both, and Rhona especially this weekend. Hopefully you can join TdL next year

[ianhunter]

Hope you all have a good time and enjoy yourselves

[colintf]

Hope you all have a good time and enjoy yourselves

That's guaranteed Ian

[Flat Eric]

Hi all,

Buzby is not well! Following a fantastic event now stuck in Luxembourg with mechanical problems. Have put a call into Russell to see if we can get things back on the move. Thanks to everyone for their help and time in trying to get Buzby back on the road and for Guy for the use of his V8 ZTT and trailer. Car now at hotel and holiday in tatters!

Stu.

[colintf]

What a great weekend and many many thanks to Eric and Pascal for organising the 10th TdL and Thankyou to Claude for the great news of TdL 2014

Great to see everyone and Thankyou for the great company

Felt so sorry for Stu and Mel but what a great example of the MG Family coming together as one, I hope everything is rectified very soon

[British Steel]

We are back at Home, a great Weekend with the all our intenational friends.
Its so good to see you all, the fun we had together is unbelievable, we don´t want to miss this in furure, so we are on Board again in 2014.
Pascal and Eric, we thank you very much for this great Weekend, Claude and Danielle thank you to organize the sunday evening event and bring us back to the Hotel.
Rob and Elena, thank you very much for your help, that you waiting and lead us on Sunday, hope to see you both, this, or next year healthy and laughing again
Stu and Mel, hope the car will be repaired very fast and you can make your Journey to the black wood forrest, we thinking of you.
Let us know whats going on, much people has see that the Pulley was loose at the camshaft when we had done the cover down.

[British Steel]

Now any pictures: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 94b51ab62e
have fun.

[Neil Rushton]

We've just got home after a bit of a wild goose chase on the way, was a great weekend we've done about 1350 miles all in all. Thanks to Pascal & Eric for putting the time & effort into the organisation the hotel & lunch stops were great we had some very nice food during the weekend. I hope Stu & Mel get back soon & all is sorted

[colintf]

Good to see people getting home safe and hope the same for everyone else

Danke for pics Klaus I will look when I have a good wifi connection

Good luck Stu and Mel

As Klaus says, TdL is not to be missed, too much good fun with the international family

[adrianclifford]

We're home safe and well too but let's all spare a thought for Stu and Mel who remain stranded in Luxembourg with a very sick Trophy. We tried our hardest to fix it there but we could not as we suspect there could be valve damage as the timing appears to have slipped, a shame as Stu had new belts and water pump fitted before he left for the Tour, the dowels pins appear to have fallen out as the flywheel was loose.

I'll ask here and in General, does anybody have a trailer I can borrow as it's possible Dawn and I will go to Luxembourg on Friday and bring them and the car home by using the trailer.

There are a number of potential issues regarding the failed units but I'm not going to go into that here, it's not the place but I don't really have the time to tow it all the way from Luxembourg to Yorkshire, can anybody take it from the M25 area up north ?. We'll be in the UK late on Friday night travelling up the M20 towards Essex. Stu and Mel can stay with us on Friday night, we have a busy weekend planned with two events to go to but if we need to we will cancel them and continue the tow Saturday. I can collect and return the trailer if it's nearby, I can hire one for around £75 but I'm asking our community if anybody can help to save Stu and Mel more expense.

Thanks to Pascal, Eric, Claude and Danielle for their organisation and help over the weekend. Thanks to Guy for towing the stranded car from Echternach to the Hotel de la Poste in Larochette and to Bruno and Claus for trying to fix the car in the first place.

So many people stayed after the event to offer help even though we all missed evening dinner (the impromptu Chinese was very nice though) even Maria in the hotel stayed up to provide hugs and beer when we finally arrived and she kindly arranged a table for us in the Chinese restaurant.

Looking forward to the 2014 event already

[Mykel]

Oh bugger, I have only learned about Stu&Mel's mishap this morning from Klaus on the phone. I do hope everything can be sorted without too many costs, with the holiday plans going down the drain this is tough enough indeed! Please be sure my family's and my thoughts are with you now.

Still it was a great weekend, good to see all of you again and really looking forward to meeting most of you in Bingen and then on the Niederrhein in late September.

Photos (about 500 of them) not yet sorted, but I will add them to my dropbox and post the link here.