Wouter,

Thank you for your offer, we would like to meet you, but I don't think that we will make it to Texel this year. I will not be doing "away events" and Neil is already committed to the Spitfire Europeans in France and the UK Nationals.

It is very costly for us to travel to Holland, they say that the Ireland - UK ferry crossing is the dearest in Europe. Then we have UK to Holland on top of that. The other alternative is, ferry to France and then drive to Holland.

There is no Spitfire mailing list as far as I know, but Tim Dieu de Bellefontaine is listed as the UK class secretary. Although I have not had any recent contact with him, we have corresponded in the past. Try tim@dinghyinsurance.com

Usually there are a good number of UK sailors at Texel.

Thanks again.

Dermot