Roll on 2013 !

Sunday 4pm.

The inaugural Greek Horizons meeting is now well and truly over and what a fantastic few days it has been! Just a few of us remain to pester the refuge staff, myself, Taz, Joel and Martin, who are heading off south together tomorrow; Alex & Mila are also heading south but are way too much in love to want to travel with us…. Hannu is heading off north towards Albania. Dimitris and the refuge staff finally have time to sit and relax and take stock of the weekend. The few of us left have done a sweep of the site to collect any left over rubbish and true to form for a Horizons meeting there was hardly anything left to pick up, which for a gathering of 127 bikers is quite remarkable by any measure.

Dimitris looked a little worried when

the power went off

Dimitris has done an amazing job of organising this first event and I’m sure it will go from strength to strength in the coming years. As for Babis, Paula and their staff no praise is high enough for the fantastic job they have done in looking after us and always with good humour and a smile! They have had to cope not only with over 100 hungry, thirsty bikers but also with weather that just suddenly went from intense heat to a storm of tropical proportions to say nothing of a power cut on Friday night which I must add did nothing to dampen the good humour and enthusiasm of the participants!



A few of the Refuge staff relax after the event!

The presentations were a nice mix of Greek and English so there was plenty to keep the interest of the non-Greek speakers amongst us and very well put together and presented. For my money  the best of the non- Greek presentations was undoubtedly Alex Conrad with not only a most professional presentation but also truly humbling story.

This is a meeting that I can only see going from strength to strength and it is a shame that one prime HU sponsor couldn’t see their way to assisting Dimitris rather than showing utter and complete arrogance which will have done ther already poor reputation no good at all. I for one sincerely hope that they are not in attendance next year

Organising an Horizons meeting does

take it's toll.

Once again a huge thanks you to everyone (except the supposed HU Sponsor!) involved with this new kid on the block. I look forward to celebrating it’s first birthday next year when I am sure the attendance will easily top the double century!