W.Bro Geoffrey A Goodman, PJGD, 5, Crib St, Ware, Herts SG12 9EX 01920 460987
E mail geoffreygee@tiscali.co.uk
The Hertfordshire Wanderers is an informal group of masons with an urge to travel. Visits are arranged to Lodges throughout U K and Overseas, often to Meetings of special interest. Travel is usually by car on an expense sharing basis. Anyone interested in having his name added to the mailing list to be kept in formed of future trips should advise W.Bro Goodman as above.
Where names are given appended to each event, they are provisional only to record interest, and does not involve a firm commitment until very much nearer the date in question.
Thursday 25th September – Vienna - Sarastro Lodge
There was a lot of interest in this proposed trip in 2007 but it had to be postponed.
Geoff & Lesley Goodman, Dick D,avison Michael Cross, John & Carol Bassford, John Sanderson, Graham and Jill Riche, Roger & Angela Mallett, Len Mellows , Stuart & Francis Halsey (own arrangements), Tony and Chrissie Wright, George Ferris and Gwen, Willie Wilson, Ron Harding, Frank Wilson (those in BOLD have confirmed their interest and those in RED have informed me that they have booked flights/hotels as at 14 July 08)
Saturday 25th October – Old Ruymians Lodge, Ramsgate
Return visit to this ever popular Lodge for Installation
Tony Godfrey, Geoff Goodman, Willie Wilson, Dick Davison, Bob Martin, Allan Atkinson, George Ferris
October (provisionally)
Hereford – details tba
Geoff & Lesley Goodman, Bob Martin, Allan Atkinson, Geoff & Ann Hall, Robert Pettigrew
Saturday 8th November - Maastricht (Netherlands) Consecration in City Hall 1300hrs
Travel probably by Eurostar to Brussels and onward by train to Maastricht
Geoff Goodman & Lesley, Tony & Chrissie Wright, Michael Cross, Len Mellows, Bob Martin & Ciri, John Hicks, Mark Pedroz, Geoff & Ann Hall, George Ferris (those BOLD have confirmed their interest as at 01 July 08)
Saturday 29th November Apollo Lodge, Oxford
Installation Meeting
Mike Casey, John Hicks, Allan Atkinson, Martin Schollar, Robert Pettigrew, Bob Martin, Peter Lucas & New Elizabethan Lodge members, John Hicks, Mark Pedroz, Geoff Hall, George Ferris
March – date tba, Guildhall Lodge
Subject to places being available to us, our annual visit to the Installation in The Mansion House, usually conducted by one of the rulers of the Craft
Geoff Goodman, Allan Atkinson, Peter Boughton, Dick Davison, Willie Wilson, John Hicks, Robin Shaw, Geoff Hall, George Ferris, Robert Pettigrew, Paul Oxtoby, Tony Godfrey, Bob Martin, Geoff Bedford, Mike Pinfield
Monday 23 March – St James Lodge Banffshire
Negotiations are in hand. Details tba
Geoff & Lesley Goodman, Peter & Jackie Boughton, Geoff & Pam Bedford, Allan Atkinson, John Hicks, George Ferris, Robert Pettigrew, Tony & Corrie Godfrey
Monday 4th May – St Martin’s Lodge, Guernsey Installation
Provisional date subject to interest.
Geoff & Lesley Goodman, Robert Pettigrew
Keats and Shelley Lodge, Rome – 23rd May (Installation)
A new overseas venue for us
Geoff & Lesley Goodman, George & Pat Giffen, Allan Atkinson, Willie Wilson, Peter & Jackie Boughton, George Ferris, Peter & Liz Rollin, Robert Pettigrew, Geoff & Pam Bedford
Menorca - 4th Weds May 2010
Negotiation in hand
St Stephen Lodge No 7, Budapest – 9th September, 4th November, 2nd December
Open Invitation. We will try to fit in a trip. Anyone interested for any particular date?
Geoff Hall, George Ferris, Nottingham contingent, Robert Pettigrew (Sept), Peter & Liz Rollin (Sept or Nov), David & Roz Heasman, Peter & Liz Rollin (not December), George Ferris (Dec preferred)
Calais
Arrangements are being discussed for a visit to a Lodge in Calais,
Bob Martin, Nottingham contingent, Robert Pettigrew, Martin Schollar
Anglo Hanseatic Lodge, Hamburg
Robert Hone, formerly a member of Halsey Lodge 1479 invites us to his German Lodge
John Welchman, Len Mellows, Ian Beese, Robert Pettigrew
Luxembourg
Date to be arranged, last Friday in almost any month, so a weekend break is probably the idea. My contact, advises possible cheap Luxair flight or Eurostar via Brussels or Paris, or of course car. Hotels ranging from not very cheap to very expensive. This is in mind for later
Allan Atkinson, Len Mellows, Graham Riche, Bob Findlay, George Ferris & Gwen, Nottingham contingent, Robert Pettigrew, David & Roz Heasman
Other Possibles
I have contacts for Norway, Portugal, Brittany
LONDON LUNCHTIMERS:
Contact Mike Pinfield (mailto:secretary@lunchtimers.org Bi-monthly lunches at Prince of Wales, cnr Drury Lane/Gt.Queen St. Masons, male or female, with or without partners as well as all others, of either sex, interested in Freemasonry are most welcome.