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Jan Roelse
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Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by Jan Roelse » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:35 am

GPA friends,

From tonight untill sunday morning March 2, Ian Grieve will visit me to exchange GPA-information & experiences to try to put it in a new book. GPA-friends in my area who would like to say hello (for a moment !?) are very welcome. With new and hot GPA-info for sure! :-)
If you are interested please email me or call me.
Kind regards,
Jan
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Re: Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by leo verhagen » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:09 pm

This afternoon I met Ian Grieve at Jan his shed. It was great meeting Ian in person and I was amazed how much he knows about the gpa and its history. I learned a lot, and we had a good time sharing information.
Jan, thanks for the invitation and hospitality.
Ian, thanks a lot for all the wonderful info and photos you shared with Jan and me about our small amphibian seeps.

Unfortunately there was only very little time, but it was time well spend!
Regards,

Leo Verhagen

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Re: Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by Cees » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:38 pm

Sorry Ian / Jan but I had no time to go to Flushing mayby we meet next time.

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Re: Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by Jan Roelse » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:43 am

Hi Leo, Cees, Peter & Glenn,
Thanks for your kind mail and phone calls. Ian Grieve is now heading by train for Mithril in Belgium.
It was nice to meet him. We talked a lot about our toys and all related things.
I hope he have got enough info and photos for the new book. It will take sure time to check it out and put on paper. I wish him a lot of succes with the project!
Jan
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Re: Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by GPA2196 » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:36 pm

I would like to see if I could contribute to the book as well. Do you have contact email for Ian?

Thanks,
Tony

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Re: Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by Jan Roelse » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:06 pm

Hi Tony,

You can mail him in a few weeks by way of his GPA memberlist email address or right now on Mithrils email address. He is there tonight. Form there he wil headed for Paris and 2 days later back to Londen Archives.
Jan
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Re: Visitor from Australia in Holland

Post by jerome » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:45 am

Ian and I spent a couple of hours out our MV club near Paris. It was very much too short due to my work schedule but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Looking forward to meeting Ian again soon

Jerome
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