Galway, West Of Ireland Meet Aug 17th

gltease · Post by **gltease** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:46 pm

Hi Everyone, I'm organising the next Irish Volvo Owners meet.

Date Aug 17th

We will be meeting in Salthill, Galway at 11am and taking a route around Connemara.

If you wish to be added to my mailing list, particuarly any of you Irish 480 owners send me a PM, and you will get further details.

As far as I know there will be a couple of 480s attending incl mine...
Hope you can make it.

Colm
Ni ceart go cur le cheile

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:40 pm

Details have now been uploaded to here;
http://web.mac.com/odonnellbrendan/iWeb ... Dates.html

I'll be attending the meet in my 850 and my workmate will be attending in his 480 - the plan is to head down Friday evening, camp at Rosses point then head down to Salthill on the Saturday and camp that evening, ready for Sunday.

If anybody from the North wants to make a weekend of it with us or plans to head down on the Saturday night let me know!

gltease · Post by **gltease** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:06 pm

Nice one Darren and thanks for sticking up the info !!
Should be a good weekend !!

moslo · Post by **moslo** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:52 pm

would have taken a run along but can't make that weekend unfortunately.

maybe you can post some pics after?

hope you get the weather!

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:56 pm

moslo wrote:maybe you can post some pics after?

There will be plenty of photos!

Shame you can't make it - hopefully the next one.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:51 pm

The meeting yesterday was awesome!

Pity about the weather, but in some ways for me, it's the poor conditions that make up the driving experience! Colm (gltease) planned an excellent route on some brilliant roads (especially the flooded ones!) and it was great to meet more new faces.

Here's some splashtastic photos;

http://web.mac.com/odonnellbrendan/iWeb ... hotos.html

&

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e279/ ... -08_Volvo/

Roll on the next meet; September 14th on the North Coast!

P.S. +525 miles!

moslo · Post by **moslo** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:04 pm

Nice pics!

Looks like the weather was pretty good in salthill - you were lucky with the serious flooding around the country that weekend! I was up in Belfast and the roads were shocking - did you see the pics of the westlink?!!
Down in carlow where i would usually park the car the roads were submerged as well. Not kind weather for a leaky 480!!!

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:24 am

The state of the Westlink was so shocking it was funny!

The problem is, they're going to spend millions of our money finding out why it flooded... Hello, mother nature; a months rainfall fell in one day.

Anyway, I managed to retrieve the corrupted images from my memory card by extracting them straight from my missus' camera (different make but same memory) so I've edited and uploaded 30 more images, some of which came out real nice! :thumbs_up:

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e279/ ... /?start=40