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« Last post by Hannibal on December 22, 2025, 06:16:55 AM »
Hey Nick, is life so expensive in the UK today? Hotel at Sèvres, was 90 euros a day (negotiated by the organizers), food is quiet cheap in the suburb, car and gas is like any move on week-end for other purpose, or short vacation. I don't know anymore how much a club, like AMC has to pay pr teble meter for two days, but not that level you mention, I believe. Perhaps distance and communications makes distant people forced to spend two nights, so three days out.
It becomes now also harder for a 'continental European' to attend British contests, with the more restricted circulation rules. My wife has a Turkish nephew livong in Edimburgh we wish to visit since three years, but the paperwork to travel is small break to jump on a plane and do it. We hope early 2026! ..
But I have to recognize that I became lazy too in the site, by not painting a lot during the last 18 months, and my box for contests is empty now !! What a shame. 2026 resolutions are there however ! and a internal challenge would be nice to launch, such as the new BFFS flat, or anothre subject to connect us here also, not exclusively on Facebook....