When life gives you lemons, go ride Lemonade!
British Treffen
The British Treffen, in Carmarthen, Wales, was held the following weekend to the
Irish Treffen. We would like to have had a little more time to visit Ireland. We
arrived on Thursday afternoon and checked in, we were the 429th bike to register. We
saw our English friend (the one with the American flag) and he pointed to where he
was camped, we joined him. Later the other members of his chapter arrived and they
adopted us into their Broadlands Wings. This picture was actually taken after we
had packed to leave and we all gathered around our trailer. As you can see the weather
was a lot better for the British Treffen. Only one small sprinkle of rain the first
night, then sun with scattered clouds. There were nearly 700 GoldWings here for
the weekend.
The first major event was the "60's Night Dance". This is the Broadlands group headed
to the pavilion for the dance. We didn't dress up, we don't have room for non-
Several bikes were showing off before the "Light Parade". Many GoldWingers have
added lights to their bikes, strobes, LED and neon in all the colors possible. These
guys make quite a show after dark with their various flashing and color-
Now we know where Elvis is, alive and well in Wales.
And all the "Flower Children" (who are a loooong ways from childhood).
At the European Treffens there is a bar and under-
We went on the "Parade of Nations" ride here too. That is us in the foreground (again
with the borrowed US flag). Directly above the red helmeted person (in light blue
with the pale rain/sun fly) is our tent. This is the getting ready, we took movies
during the parade but they didn't turn out well.
After the parade the Broadlands Club had their regular B-
We saw this travel trailer ("caravan" to the Europeans) at the treffen. It was pulled
by a matching yellow trike. I would have liked to seen the inside, but no one was
around when I was by it. It has dual axles and I've wondered how it tows. Behind
a trike would be better, I wouldn't want it behind my two-
Next is Wales.