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I have some details from Fabio : -

2016 details expected in Decembr
registration probably mid Jan onwards

How else can you go speeding through red traffic lights while under police escort ??

Some early info http://www.gabiccemareturismo.com/en/ev ... 0-may-2016

Colin, Dawn and I have never done this event before. It's been on our radar for a long time, please keep us posted, we'll probably go.

Me and Chris could be interested as well

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Did this party back in 2006 or so, Great event, and yes you are allowed to jump a red signal every now and then, drive at 50 MPH through villages with a copper taking you over standing on his saddle (oops we shouldn't tell )

Not to forget the best of all: Italian hospitality and Fantastic Food.

Should join again in the near future......


If you're lucky it might be possible to combine MG by the sea with a visit to the Mille miglia event.

Will keep you posted as I hear more

Kasper wrote:Did this party back in 2006 or so, Great event, and yes you are allowed to jump a red signal every now and then, drive at 50 MPH through villages with a copper taking you over standing on his saddle (oops we shouldn't tell )

Not to forget the best of all: Italian hospitality and Fantastic Food.

Should join again in the near future......


If you're lucky it might be possible to combine MG by the sea with a visit to the Mille miglia event.

Thanks for he update Kasper
I love Italy, the Italians and their hospitality and food

we kind of have a plan for getting there and back

out : -
night 1 Larochette (Maria's) or Cologne
night 2 Turin / Avigliana in Italy - I know 2 good places from my time working there
arrive Gabicce Mare

Return
leave the event - first night Lindau area in Germany (found a great looking place, on the eastern side of Lake Constance, a freshwater lake called Bodensee in German)
second night - Larochette (Maria's) or Cologne (probably the opposiet of what we do on teh way down there)
following day home

others are very welcome to join us if they like

This sounds very tempting, are modern cars allowed to enter? On the linked website it says something like classic cars and some modern ones up to the 80's.

Mykel wrote:This sounds very tempting, are modern cars allowed to enter? On the linked website it says something like classic cars and some modern ones up to the 80's.

all MG's I believe Mykel, and I think Marina & Christian went on the last one

That's great, Col, I'll be putting this down in my calendar then. Hopefully I can manage this date to fit in my work obligations.

Mykel wrote:That's great, Col, I'll be putting this down in my calendar then. Hopefully I can manage this date to fit in my work obligations.

I have just emailed the question to Fabio, just to be 100% certain

it would be great to share this fun experience with you

As you will expect, I have already started to look for a nice way to get there and back ...

Mykel wrote:As you will expect, I have already started to look for a nice way to get there and back ...

Naturlich

This was Steffi and My thoughts : -

colintf wrote:we kind of have a plan for getting there and back

out : -
night 1 Larochette (Maria's) or Cologne
night 2 Turin / Avigliana in Italy - I know 2 good places from my time working there
arrive Gabicce Mare

Return
leave the event - first night Lindau area in Germany (found a great looking place, on the eastern side of Lake Constance, a freshwater lake called Bodensee in German)
second night - Larochette (Maria's) or Cologne (probably the opposiet of what we do on teh way down there)
following day home

others are very welcome to join us if they like

Maria’s is a brilliant idea as a meeting point. I had thought of Strasbourg, but the good old TdL HQ is much better.

I then thought to go down to Lake Constance, visit the Rhine cascade at Schaffhausen and go on to Chur. From there across the Lenzerhalde, Albula and Julier to the Lake Iseo near Bergamo, then on towards the Po river and down the coast to Rimini.

Return via Venice, Stelvio, Fernpass, Reutte, Dinkelsbühl, Heidelberg, Odenwald, Cologne.

Wow sounds like a renewed revival of the tout to Swiss!

Mykel wrote:Maria’s is a brilliant idea as a meeting point. I had thought of Strasbourg, but the good old TdL HQ is much better.

I then thought to go down to Lake Constance, visit the Rhine cascade at Schaffhausen and go on to Chur. From there across the Lenzerhalde, Albula and Julier to the Lake Iseo near Bergamo, then on towards the Po river and down the coast to Rimini.

Return via Venice, Stelvio, Fernpass, Reutte, Dinkelsbühl, Heidelberg, Odenwald, Cologne.

That's sounds great, but over how many days each way?

Probably it will not be possible to do a huge number of mountain passes as it is only May. Stelio does not open unit (mid) June. Many other passes are closed too at that time of the year as we learned in 2006.

But plenty of nice alternatives....

I'm not a fan of the Stelvio, it's boring. Box ticked job done back in 2008 on the way to Zug.

We've got to think of total time away because of the dog.

Kasper wrote:Probably it will not be possible to do a huge number of mountain passes as it is only May. Stelio does not open unit (mid) June. Many other passes are closed too at that time of the year as we learned in 2006.

But plenty of nice alternatives....

Very very true Kasper

adrianclifford wrote:I'm not a fan of the Stelvio, it's boring. Box ticked job done back in 2008 on the way to Zug.

We've got to think of total time away because of the dog.

Same here Adrian, but due to holiday quota hence our 2 nights each way plan above

Mykel wrote:This sounds very tempting, are modern cars allowed to enter? On the linked website it says something like classic cars and some modern ones up to the 80's.

Fabio (who is also a F owner) has confirmed that all F and TF are very welcome to join

I too might well be interested. Diane and I were thinking about this some years ago (Drive on roof of Fiat building etc), but things didn't work out unfortunately

My thoughts are an early Eurotunnel start, stop at the Novotel, Nancy, then plug on down.