Portsmouth IVC

As you may remember I announced a competition back in November for the best article to be posted on the website and the best photograph showing the members having fun.

The judging has been very arduous, but I am pleased to announce the results!

The winners are…

• For the best article on the website – Chris Featherstone won this by default as the only entrant for his posting about the Christmas meal at the Red Lion Hotel.
• For the photo best showing the club having fun – again there was only one Entrant, but he did put loads of photos on Activity Exchange, Ed Lait for this photo from the Christmas Meal at the Red Lion Hotel.

Jim (the webmaster) is planning to run one or two workshops on how to post to this website. If you are interested in finding out how you can contribute, then please drop him an email, use the contact form on the homepage or see him at a clubnight.

In the meantime check out the FAQ link at the top of the page.

Ed, Jo, Dev, Maria, Carol, Anne all went to this AIVC weekend event hosted by Birmingham IVC. This was a national event and many Clubs attended and fun was had by all.

We stayed the Etap Hotel and the accommodation was good value for money. The breakie was continental and plentiful.

On the Friday we met at the Wetherspoons and had a nice meal and met all the people attending.

Saturday we did separate events and I did the canal trip and was very interesting seeing the sights and learning the history. It’s the first time on a canal boat acting as an ice breaker and the canal was frozen.

In the afternoon a group of us went cycling in and around the canal system and visited a few pubs en-route. We also saw the Cadbury’s factory.

In the evening we all met up as a group for an evening meal at a Chinese costing a tenner each.

Sunday we went shopping and explored the Bull Ring.

The whole weekend cost per person was £50 and was great value.

A great time was had despite the snowy conditions and I have now seen Birmingham in a new light and definitely go again.

All the people were very pleasant and it was nice meeting new people.