3. Balkan VW Bus Meeting in Turkey 2013

Hi Maurizio,

i passed there last year with my wife, that how i met Osvaldiono also. Next time i ll give you a call...

here is the link to it: www.jokeristi.it/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?116362

until i can upload my pictures, let s fly over the Balkan Meeting:

Oh Yes, please do, it will be a pleasure to meet you.

278 VW's, 8 countires, 675 people ...

a 3 days event with succes, many happy faces and lots of promises for next year.

We have been celebrating the 3rd Balkan Bus meeting in Igneada / Turkey, a full VW event, packed with backgammon tournier, 50 m VW pulling, childrens corner, many ateliers, bicycle tours, stage performances, camp fire, jam sessions, sirtaki, belly dance, VW culture at it s best and lots of memories.

After the first meeting in Greece with 15 and the second in Bulgara with 35 vehicles, it s been an explosion of "get together event" of 278 VW's.

Imagine next years meeting, for which Romania already annouced to host !

follow on www.balkanbusmeeting.com and get ready for your long trip to Romania in July 2014

After the Balkan meeting, we planned a North Aegean Trip with our forum www.volkswagen-t3.com and we were driving for 6 days around with on a convoi with more than 15 Vw's



On Sunday, after the meeting, a dozen of turkish VW's , a greek guy with T3, a couple from Vienna with their syncro, a croatian friend, a romanian couple with their 1969 T2, we hit the road towards our first stop, the DUPNISA caves.



The camping places we wanted to rest were shared at the beginning of the trip, so couple of us were able to skip the POI's (point of interest) and find us on the next stop so we could get together as a convoi again.

Tired from driving, we drove by a Winery named SUVLA and passed the Dardanelle to stop on a camping by sea. Couple of us skipped the Battlefields visit.





The next day, we drove to TROI national park and ruines. Brad Pitt was not around, understandable on 35 degrees in shadow !!!



We stopped bei Bozcaada Island, parked our cars and passed to the Island by ferry. We enjoyed the oktopus and other specialities of the island and went back to our VW to sleep. On next day, we drove 90 km to the south, passing by beautifull small village road, stopping by a olive oil and cottage cheese factory to fill our refrigirators





We stopped by the famous Apollon Smintheus temple too, of course...



Finally we arrived to ASSOS, where we planned to stay 2 days, lying around, eat, swimm and sing. We parked our vehicles in the shadow of the olive trees and get rested...





...and the water was irressistable



We organised a bus to bring us to the ASSOS ruins. We loved the view and the history of this sacred place.







Unfortunately our friends from Romania and Austria had to leave. We drove 12 VW's to south to CUNDA and visited couple of places on our way



last stop was Dikili, 50 more km to south.
It was time to say good bye. And hope for a better 2014 meeting

Great organization, great meetings, and spectacular tour.
We would have loved to be there with you, but unfortunately for us the days available are few ...

We hope to be there next year, maybe if we can be organized in August for sure.

Viva Turkey!!!!

Che spettacolo!!! :applausi: :applausi: :applausi:

Davvero esagerato! 278 mezzi!!!!
Peccato per la data che poco si sposa con le possibilità di ferie in Italia
Speriamo nell'organizzazione 2014, aggregare una carovana italiana sarebbe uno spettacolo, che inizia dalla partenza del viaggio!!!!

Complimenti

Maskelyne

a story from me about the meeting on vw-bulli.de

www.vw-bulli.de/no-cache/de/news/nachric...fen-der-bericht.html