Programme:

Tuesday 22nd August 2006

                          
1. 06:45 hrs 1st Pick-up Pnt Sevenoaks Station - Parking at Mick Ryan's House.
2. 07:30 hrs 2nd Pick-up Pnt Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock, - Free

Public parking
3. 09:15 hrs 3rd Pick-up Point Harwich Quay - Parking £6 a day
       09:40 hrs Board Ferry
5. Late afternoon arrive Best Western 4* Hotel, Arnhem
Wednesday 23rd August 2006
5. Leave Arnhem late morning - after visiting Airborne Museum
6. Late afternoon arrive 4* City Hotel Valois, Wilhelmshaven
Thursday 24th August 2006
7. 09:30 hrs Arrive GAF Jever - programme to be agreed, but similar to last year
    18:00 hrs Supper in the Officers' Mess Jever
    21:30 hrs Return to Hotel
Friday 25th August 2006
8. 09:30 hrs Arrive GAF Wittmundhafen - GAF Operational Base
    14:00 hrs Leave GAF Wittmundhafen
9. Late afternoon arrive at 3* Hotel Mercure, Nijmegen
Saturday 26th August 2006
Depart Nijmegen late morning after Siegfried Line Tour
4. 15:00 hrs Ferry sails from Hook of Holland
. 19:30 hrs Clear of Ferry at Harwich
2. 21:15 hrs Drop off Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock, Essex
1. 22:00 hrs Drop off at Sevenoaks Station

                      Cost: £265 per head sharing a room B&B

Luxury 48-seater Coach (see above) with Coffee maker and toilets on board.
For single room £75 supplement - only 4 available on a
first-come-first-served basis
For half-board accommodation £41 supplement for 3 of the nights
Minimum of 30 passengers and more than 48 we need another coach
Travel Insurance can be arranged at an extra £15.30 per person
We must confirm numbers before 28th March 2006 when deposits must be paid.
Fewer than 30 can be arranged but the price per head will obviously go up.

The cost is inclusive of all coach travel, bed and breakfast hotel accommodation,
ferries, taxes and tolls, but is exclusive of any entrance fees and meals other
than breakfast.

To Sign Up:
Call me:        01732-743745
E-mail me:   mick_ryan@dial.pipex.com
or mail me: Far End, Chipstead Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2RG.
Or return the slip which is about to go out with the calling notice for this
year's AGM on 8th April 2006.

Coach Party: 

	
Ken Goodwin, President Jever Steam Laundry (1st single room) 
	
Chris Stone 
	
Mick Ryan 
	
Jeff Jeffrey 
	
Eric Pigdon 
	
Pete Jennings 
	
Pat King 


  
Making their own way to Jever: 

	
Günter Kipp 
	
Maurice Parker 
	
Marcus Christ 
	
Marcus's Father GAF retired 
	
Matthais Blaul GAF 
	
Günter Blaul GAF Retired 
	
Trevor Pailing 
	
Brian Stoneham 
	
Brian Thornton
	
Ann Thornton  

  
 
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Useful train connections:
Liverpool Street Station       Depart 07:18 hrs   Arrive Harwich Quay 08:51 hrs
                               Depart 06:25 hrs   Arrive Harwich Quay 07:56 hrs

Harwich Quay                   Depart 19:30 hrs   Arrive Liverpool St 20:51 hrs
                               Depart 20:00 hrs   Arrive Liverpool St 21:34 hrs

Charing Cross                  Depart 05:41hrs   Arrive Sevenoaks Station 06:36 hrs

Sevenoaks Station              Depart 22:05 hrs   Arrive Charing Cross 22:38 hrs
                               Depart 22:32 hrs   Arrive Charing Cross 23:06 hrs
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Jever Programme:

     The GAF Camp Commandant, Oberstleutenant Joachim F Linke, who was such a
marvellous host to us last year, will still be there and is looking forward to
hosting us again.  I expect he will arrange a briefing on the current role of GAF

Jever and a little of its history.   Then there will be a conducted tour of the
entire camp and airfield, nothing was held back last time and we were encouraged
to go everywhere.  GAF Jever has 3 main roles now, a Phantom Maintenance Unit with

the air testing done from the base, a Tornado unit where high value items are
stripped and re-packed before the airframe is scrapped, and a very large GAF
Regiment which will have been consolidated on the base by the time we get there.
It is because of this, and an impending exercise in September, that we cannot be
accommodated on the base.

     In the afternoon we can probably arrange a tour of downtown Jever and the Jever
Pils Brewery to do a quality TACEVAL.  In the evening we can be offered a meal which
is both cooked and presented to first class standards.  Their menu would be the envy
of many a professional restaurant.  The GAF can only charge us the basic cost of the
food - and this is a ridiculously small amount.   We must collect a large tip for the
staff as they are all volunteers from the other messes, both servers and cooks.  It
still makes it an excellent meal for very little money.  To keep within the coach
drivers hours we should be on the road back to Wilhelmshaven by 21:30hrs.

Wittmundhafen Programme:

     Thanks to Günter Kipp, co-author of the excellent book "RAF Hunters in Germany"
who will be with us on the tour, we have been invited to visit a fully operational 
GAF base at Wittmundhafen.  This is about 8nm West of Jever.  See the map below.  
The details of the visit are yet to be agreed but it will probably finish with lunch
before we leave for Nijmegen.

Arnhem Visit on the way out:

We can do whatever we wish but the following are some of the features of Arnhem:
Airborne Museum
The Arnhem Museum

Nijmegen Visit on the back:

We can do whatever we wish but the following are some of the features of Nijmegen:
Siegfried Line Bunkers
Africa Museum (African art and culture)
Biblical open air museum (ancient middle eastern buildings)
Valkhof museum (Roman history and modern art)
Velorama (bicycle museum)

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