Looks like all of you made it back home safely
Also a little wrap-up from my side:
It was a lot of work but also a lot of fun organizing an event like this.
I'm glad most of the things worked out fine but in my opinion it's not possible with this amount of cars/people to satisfy everyone.
Also the weather on friday and saturday was perfect. Driving these roads in the rain would have been a catastrophy (and maybe sometimes dangerous).
Unfortunately the sunday hasn't been like this. 2 good days out of 3 is o.k. (one week later it would have been 3 complete rain days).
Thanks for all the participants, without their help this event would have ended in a mess. Everyone (some minor exceptions) accepted the planned schedule
and tried to help the organization team to meet the planned lunch/sightseeing places more or less in time.
I'd like to thank the MGFIM people, also Klaus & his team, especially Andreas, who took over the lead of group 3 within short notice (1 day prior to the event start) from Udo who had to cancel due to health reasons.
Also thanks to Udo & Jutta for supporting the organization of this event.
Some issues to think about (also for the next organization team):
There will always be participants who "do their own thing" even though the tour is guided. That's o.k. as long as the orga team
knows this (in advance).
Also we had people that subscribed and never showed up. This is not acceptable as we were making reservations for lunch and sightseeing !!
A lot of cancellations we received through Mykel or by reading through the forums. Canceling an event is not a problem at all, there are tons of
reasons why someone would cancel the subscription. We don't even need to know why.
But it is very important that cancellations are being addressed directly to the orga team. Typing an eMail is as much work as typing a message into a thread.
The issue we had on sunday (lunch reservation for 86 persons, having 50 meals in the end) ended without problems. Fortunately another group
showed up without reservation to "fill up" our losses.
Please don't see this as a negative statement. This is meant for future events (and their organization teams).
Seeing the complete weekend it is an absolute positive feedback from our side.
We always have to keep in mind the number of cars, people, nations and characters involved. It was an honour to host all of you in our homeland.
We will (of course) do it again next year in the Hunsrücktreffen No. 12 but back to the regular size of around 20-25 cars.
Thanks again to all of you
It's been a pleasure !!
Jochen
