Carolyn Tuthill reports:
Many of you will be aware that Cranleigh has now twinned with Semur-en-Auxios in the Burgundy region of France.
Last Saturday, in the pouring rain, Ingrid and I joined with Christine, Mike, David & Hazel at the Band Room in Cranleigh, to promote our Club with a view to hosting a boule event in the future with the folks from Semur. Tony Fox, John Sylvester and Valerie put in an appearance also. Christine had the foresight to take along two albums of archive photographs which she has produced. We must get her to bring them to one of our Club events soon as they are a real history of the Club and most interesting. (It looks as if we are heading for our 20th Anniversary next year).
We had a most interesting morning meeting with the Cranleigh side of the twinning group who welcomed us warmly and showed real interest in forming a bond with our Club.
I know that Ian Fox is keen to visit Semur, supposedly to play Boule with the locals but it is rather a famous wine producing region!
Cranleigh Petanque Club were also represented by Jeff Fox and Janet together with some of their members (a few of whom are also members of our Club!), so we will have some (friendly) rivalry!
Four of us were there from the Committee, a decision was made that it would be useful to join the twinning group as a Club. The normal fee is £10 per family, we felt this was stretching it a bit, so we have paid a subscription of £50 as a group membership fee. This will keep us up to date with what is going on with the twinning and hopefully enable us to capitalise on our membership at the first opportunity.
We will, obviously, keep you up to date with developments.
Carolyn
1 comment:
There are locals in Semur who play Boule, so I don't suppose the wine helps their game?
We own a holiday rental in Semur-en-Auxois, and we were just on a visit and saw the signs linking Cranleigh with Semur. We have never been to Cranleigh, but we will have to go now!
Incidentally, when we were in Burgundy, we saw part of what I believe was a Boule tournament of some sort in the nearby town of Avallon. It was in one of the central parks of that town and there were many locals sitting on the wall bordering the park. It looked like fun!
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