vcfoo-meeting in Cologne

During the Round Table #11 Euro-meeting 2003 in Ravenna (Italy) a bunch of close friends decided that one meeting per year isn´t enough.....

The "vcfoo"-group has been born! vcfoo = very close friends of our´s!

Me as the first voted chairman together with my friend Hannes have organised the first vcfoo-meeting in Austria (ski-weekend)!

The 6th vcfoo-weekend have now been organised in Cologne (Germany) - arriving there on Thursday evening and meeting the first friends Hans-Joerg (host), Kendal (Scottland), Gildas (France), Gunnar & Nanny (Norway), Jack & Iris (Netherlands). Friday three more vcfoo-members arrived: Birger (Denmark), Nicolas (France) and Charles (Scottland).

The program has been rich in varied activities: nice dinners, cool bars, visit to Bonn (former German capital), House of History (museum), jogging in the morning, visit to Cologne Cathedral (one of the biggest cathedrals in the world - overtopping the whole city!) - here we had a "special" guided tour to the roof framework and the roof of the cathedral - really breath-taking! - Further we did a bicycle-tour along the Rhine-river, some shopping and finally we had a fantastic barbecue-party at Hans-Joerg and Evelin´s house - with unbelieveably lots of jokes, fun and laughs...!!!...

Nice side-story: Saturday night there´s been the soccer-game (World-Cup-Qualify) Austria against France - and the French friends Nicolas and Gildas didn´t take it serious when I told them the day before that Austria (as THE big outsider!) will win the match 3:1! - During the barbecue (I´ve been wearing an Austrian team-jersey) we´ve been following the live-ticker on internet - and it came as it had to come: Austria beates France 3:1..... (see picture of sad French fans....)!