the meeting will take place on mallorca.
The itienary will be absolute murder !
Pep does not believe in either sleep, or sticking to a schedule.
Mostly this is down to the spanish/balareian love of making speeches - at one meeting we hosted the professional inter island speechifying competition. The minister for sport was there, as was the local mayor and various other dignitaries - all vying to out speechify the others. For my money, pep took it by a whisker. But the local woman politician was apretty close second.
Think that one went on for about 2 1/2 hours by itself. It seemed longer.
None of these guys are in castro's league - but they're getting there
On that occasion, after the speeches we were escorted to our restaurant by the local paralympic competitiors, dressed as demons - complete with huge papar mache heads and banging drume.
It was unbelievably surreal and at no point were we given any kind of explanation about what was going on.
Usually while these things are going on, myself, david and some of the guys find a nearby alehouse and get a few cervesas down our necks
Or in the case of Christian, a few cocktails - he carries an entire bar around with him
So you can guarentee that whatever it says on the official schedule, by the time you get to an evening meal it'll be at least 2 hours later than it was supposed to be
But on a good day you'll be too drunk to care
The trip is worth it !
Competition wise.
we had 3 or 4 last year. I only really remember the one I got a trophy in
Some are for everyone with seperate categories for women and children.
Some are for teams - which are mixed: men women and kids,
I'm hoping to bring some vikings with me and have enough brits there next year to field a team., we'll see.
Some of the competitions are for locals and internationals and some are for everyone regardless.
All competitions are done in 5 shot rounds, at 20 metres for men and teams and 10 metres for women and children.
The guys and women are the nicest friendliest folk you could ever hope to meet and best hosts ever. Even jaegoor's a good bloke in person
Just don't try to give him fake fanta !
It's a complete and total blast - please come.
There will be a lot more information forthcoming in the next 6 months. This is the earliest pep's ever announced a meeting by about 5 months.
usually we get about 3 weeks warning.
So this year there is no excuse !