Hello from South of France city Arles Tony13

[Tony13]

Hello, I'm Tony a young rider,  62 years old, I got my first Varadero Blue in 2006 and after several other bikes I finally go back to  varadero 1000 again a 2006 black. I'am also member of the french forum. Some of your members already know me. I hope can join you in germany for the next VIM. BEST REGARDS.

[zebulon]

Whaou !!! happy to have you here Tony   and to see your "new" Varadero 

[Tony13]

Salut au plaisir peut être à la vim si on trouve à se loger.

[zebulon]

please keep in English , everybody have to understand .

I think there are still places on the vim24.org site

[Tony13]

Sorry

[JosepM]

Welcome back!
I hope we can meet in Schönau. Congratulations for your new Vara.

Josep

[fred222]

Hi Tony welcome here too with swing we will perhaps find outside accommodation if the center the hotel is full for the VIM meeting

[Snurrepus]

Hi Tony.

Nice to see you here.
Hopefully we'll meet in Schönau next year and in Southern Norway in 2025.

Best wishes from Oslo 

[Jyrays]

Welcome from Alsace!

[zebulon]

Welcome from Grand Est!

not sure he can understand  have to be aware of your situation ! 

[Jyrays]

Welcome from Grand Est!

not sure he can understand  have to be aware of your situation ! 

Corrected, but actually Grand Est fits for both of my countries 

[JosepM]

Corrected, but actually Grand Est fits for both of my countries 

My country is also Est, but rather little Est 

[meine dicke]

Grand Est 
C´est l´Alsace?

Greetings from the South of Germany
Rainer aka meine dicke

[JosepM]

Grand Est 
C´est l´Alsace?

Greetings from the South of Germany
Rainer aka meine dicke

That's got to do with French politics.
At some point, France decided to put a new structure between the "tiny" departments (95 in European France) and the "full" French administration. These were the regions, that in some cases recovered ancient region names, like Alsace.
Later, the number of regions was considered to be excessive, so a few were merged. One was Alsace, which was indeed small, but had a distinctive history of its own. Alsace became a part of a new macroregion named Grand Est.
Strasbourg/Strassburg, home to Jyrki, is Alsace's main city.

[JosepM]

BTW. Schönau, home for next vim, must be about 5 km far of Alsace, musn't it?