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Recent activities have included:

International Congresses in Buenos Aires and Marrakesh.

International AGM's in Abano Terme, Stockholm and Ostend (see below).

Study Tours of Andalucia and Greece.

Visits to the Mansion House, Goldfinger House (Hampstead), Eltham Palace, Wellington Arch, The Royal Opera House, Chiswick House and the Fuller Brewery.

Walking tours of London Of The Da Vinci Code, Hampstead, Ancient London, Legal and Illegal London and The Blue Plaques of Knightsbridge.

Lectures on The Battle Of Waterloo and "Organise For Success"

We stayed at the Quality Hotel, Andover.

Friday 28th March
Some of us hitched a ride in our touring coach (supplied by Redwing Coaches), from Victoria Train Station. Our driver was John.
We arrived in Andover mid afternoon and checked in to our Hotel.
Evening visit to The Hawk Conservancy, an award-winning attraction for a BBQ Dinner followed by an excellent special show for IATM, "Owls by torchlight".

Saturday 29th March
We travelled by coach to the historic city of Portsmouth.
Our first visit was Charles Dicken's Birthplace Museum and then we continued to the D-Day Museum with its famous tapestry.
A walk through the new dockside development at Gunwharf Quays took us to the Historic Dockyard where we can had lunch at Boathouse No 7.

After lunch we visited the “Mary Rose” Exhibition (Henry VIII’s favourite warship). We then moved on to visit “H.M.S. Warrior”, the first iron-clad naval vessel.
Our third experience in the dockyard was “Action Stations”, a new ‘hands-on’ attraction.
We Returned by coach to the hotel at Andover, where the evening was free.
Most of us ate Dinner in the hotel.

Sunday 30th March
Our first visit was to Houghton Lodge Hydroponicum. Houghton Lodge is a beautiful eighteenth century “Cottage Ornée” set in spacious gardens bordering the River Test which is frequently used as a film and television location. The Hydroponicum showed us how to garden without soil or toil. We were given a tour of the hydroponicum and had free time to tour the gardens.
Tea and coffee was available.

A short coach ride took us to Danebury Vineyard where we had an excellent presentation and wine-tasting, followed by lunch with wine included.
In the afternoon we drove to Whitchurch where we were given a tour of the picturesque and historic Whitchurch Silk Mill. The mill is now a working museum weaving luxurious silks for film costumes and stately homes.
A mid-afternoon departure concluded the weekend.

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Flanders Weekend Report

There is an excellent report written by the NL/B region, including some photographs, from the weekend held by the Dutch /Belgium region of IATM recently in Ostend.
This excellent weekend was attended by several British Region members.
Click here to read about it.

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Past activites have included things like our Jolly to Dublin, Feb 2000

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On The Road has moved to:

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And we all thought that nobody would listen.

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How to find your MEP?

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