Netherlands

Is there a group somewhere in the eastern part of the Netherlands?

Well, if you count heads these days i know of five living here in Holland.
Not all of them living in the east but...., distance in the Netherlands is a very relative issue. I live near Appingedam, (North-East Groningen) and for me it would be no problem for a meet one day with other Pentax users, if this meeting would take place in central place or city in the Netherlands. Let's try to organise something, if the others like the idea also.

Martin.

I live in Soest, so I'm never more than a couple of hours from anywhere in the Netherlands. Let's see what the others think.

I didn't think anywhere was all that far from anywhere in Holland!

Kim

Kim, if you live in Appingedam, as Martin does (NE) and the meeting is in Maastricht (South and about 375 Km away by the quickest route) it is a long and tortuous journey, and will take 4 hours if you are lucky, and considerably longer if you are not.

I live in Soest, which is nearly the geographic centre of the Netherlands and so am never more than about 2 hours from anywhere. But we have a lot of traffic jams and it has taken me over 6 hours to get to Maastricht (about 200km away) on occasion.

I used to be based at Lossiemouth, between Inverness and Aberdeen. My wifes family are in the west Midands and my fammily are based in Kent. It used to be around 10 hours on a good day to get to Lindas parents and more than 12 to visit mine. I suppose all things are relative. I know my mother (who was 1/2 Dutch) used to say that nowhere was very far away over there but that was before the modern density of traffic.

Kim

No-one else interested?
Golfdiesel, if you choose a place and a few possible dates I'll do my best to be there.

Hi Gwyn,
maybe we should PM him, to shake him awake. After all it is a long time ago since he posted this topic. For me springtime 2008 looks good enough as a possible period for a meet. Or earlier of course if we should have a crisp sunny winter over here with a good frost, freshly fallen snow, blue sky's and......., oh wait! We live in Holland. My mistake. Let's make it Spring 2008

greetings from the north,
Martin

Hey Martin, you can but dream....I keep hoping for an Elfstedenwinter (especially now my son lives on the route!) but I doubt we'll get one of those ever again.
Spring sounds good to me, maybe the others in the Netherlands would be interested then too.

Hi Gwyn,
By the way things are going with the climate i figure our Gov. will have to decide to put the ''Bouwvakvakantie'' back to April and June. No one want their holiday's as wet as the last couple of years. But all jokes aside, lets keep the thought of a meeting warm. I would really like that to happen. Even if it involves a very small group.

Martin

Missed this thread while I was living in Holland....Damn!

I lived in Den Haag, part of the Ranstad metropolis, getting round there at all times means being stuck in traffic jams...

But was amazed/irritated me in NL was the number of traffic lights in the remotest places... you could be stuck against a red light at 3 am in the morning with no other cars on the road just because some pimply oik in Delft has played with the traffic light sequencing to satisfy some car-hating traffic planner

Tot ziens!

Peter