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Black Forest 2019
Despicable Haggis 2016
Pink Haggis 2014
Hot Potato 2013
Haggis Galore 2012
The Sound of Sevens 2011
Tour in Toon 2009
Assault on the Alps 2009
JJ The Revival 2009
Norway 2007
Le Blat de Bretagne 2006
Leeks, Pies and Puddings 2006
USA 2005, How the West was
Driven
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Black Forest Tour, September 2019
This was a week long tour around the Black Forest.
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Despicable Haggis, May 2016
This was a five night tour around the north of Scotland.
The tour began on a Monday morning with a meeting at the
Cameron House Hotel on the shore of Loch Lomond. The
first four nights were based in the Royal Marine Hotel
in Brora, Sutherland with the final night of the tour at
the Ballachulish Hotel near Glencoe.
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Pink
Haggis, August 2014
This was a five night tour around North West Scotland,
based for four nights in Ullapool with the final night in Bridge of Orchy.
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Hot
Potato, May 2013
This was a three night tour around Northern Ireland,
based in the Hilton Hotel in Templepatrick.
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Haggis
Galore, September 2012
This was a five night tour around the north of Scotland.
The tour began on a Monday morning with a meeting at the
Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel in Glasgow. The
first four nights were based in the Royal Marine Hotel
in Brora, Sutherland with the final night of the tour at
the Ballachulish Hotel near Glencoe.
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The
Sound of Sevens, August & September 2011
This was a fortnight long tour with the furthest
destination being in Austria but also spending much time
in Germany. Hotel stops were Arlon (Belgium), Bregenz
and Zell am See (both Austria) and Bad Aibling,
Freudenstadt and Adenau (Germany). My personal tour was
extended to include a further 3 nights visiting my
brother in Grevenmacher in Luxembourg.
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Tour
in Toon, September 2009
This was a long weekend tour based for two nights in
Peebles in
Scotland before returning to England for a final night
in Durham.
The organisers were the husband and wife team of
Karen and Dave
Hooper.
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Assault
on the Alps, July 2009
This was a two week tour starting from Dover and
transiting through
France for four nights before visiting Italy for a
further four nights
and then returning to the UK via another four nights in
France.
The weather was mostly excellent, the scenery
superb, and the
roads as good as you might hope for in the Alps.
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JJ The Revival, May 2009
The first Se7ens list tour was organised around Ireland
(North and
South) by JJ (Johnty Lyons) in 1999 and so for the tenth
anniversary of
that original tour it was decided that a tour should be
held again in
commemoration. The tour itself was based entirely
in Northern
Ireland on this occasion with all three nights being
spent at the
Hilton Hotel in Templepatrick. Once again the weather
was mixed to say
the least, but the variety of fun roads and lovely
scenery once again
made up for the occasional dampness.
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Norway,
July 2007
The Norway tour had been a long time in the planning
with the idea
originally being considered several years earlier. The
main
organisation was by Andrew "Vinnie" Barriskell, ably
assisted by a
variety of others including several Norwegian Se7en
owners. For the UK
contingent the departure point was Newcastle, on a ferry
that called in
at Stavanger (and somewhere else that I have forgotten)
before we
finally disembarked at Bergen. From there we enjoyed a
weeks touring
with the most northerly overnight at Geiranger and we
encountered
weather ranging from beautiful sunshine to torrential
rain - apparently
this is all part of the standard Norwegian experience.
The
scenery was stunning and the roads very entertaining, if
occasionally
rather too crowded with tin tops towing caravans.
A wonderful
place for Se7ens to visit, hopefully a return trip will
be made one day
although the ferry service that we used from the UK no
longer runs so
it might be a touch more difficult to get there next
time.
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Le
Blat de Bretagne, September 2006
This was a long weekend tour to Brittany in France in
the middle of
September 2006. The tour was organised by Ian
Helmschrott-Bowden
and Gavin Tarrant and was based on staying at a
different hotel each
night. The weather was variable over the weekend
but there was
plenty of nice sunny conditions to compensate for the
bad ones. As
usual the rural French roads were a delight to drive and
the food also
lived up to our expectations of quality.
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Leeks,
Pies and Puddings, May 2006
This tour was organised by Martin and Vivian
Richards and was based in
Chester and took place over a weekend in May
2006. Unfortunately
the weather was generally poor for the weekend,
which did not prevent
us from enjoying ourselves but it certainly limited
my enthusiasm for
taking photographs.
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How
the West was Driven, September and October 2005
This tour was, unsurprisingly, one that was long in
the making. The original idea had been conceived a
number of years before but had never really got off
the ground until Steve Blair came to hear of it on
the Lynch the Leprechaun tour in Ireland in 2003 and
being a true Texan he decided that it must be doable
and so he (and his good lady wife) set about it.
Clearly they needed assistance along the way from a
large number of other volunteers and so the tour
became a reality. The starting point was Houston
Texas and the end point was about 3300 miles away
(by the recommended tour routes) in San Francisco
California. Along the way we would see deserts,
mountains, gorges, canyons, rivers and many meals of
dauntingly large size. What we also found was also
(almost total) support from the American people that
we met and of course especially those US Se7eners
who joined in with their cars or provided support
vehicles along the way - a huge thanks to them all
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