ORANJE KUST & GROENE HART RALLY
XXXVII. T.F.I. RALLY
Netherlands, May 29 – June 1, 2014
The 2014 annual TFI meeting will be held in Holland, following a decennium tradition of earlier Duch TFI meetings held in Katwoude (1994) and Lekkerkerk (2004). The meeting, organised by the Tatra Freunde International, will be held at the Ascension weekend in 2014 in the triangle shaped by The Hague, Haarlem and Utrecht in one of the most beautiful and quiet areas of Holland. Chosen theme is “ORANGE COAST AND GREEN HEART.” The meeting will have its base in Noordwijkerhout, halfway The Hague and Haarlem, close to the coast.
Tatras from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and the U.K. are expected. Start and Finish will be the four star NH Hotel in Noordwijkerhout. http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/the-netherlands/noordwijkerhout.html Adress: Langelaan 3, 2211 XT, Noordwijkerhout, NL.
On Thursday, May 29th, Ascension day, we will arrive in Noordwijkerhout with the rooms of the hotel available from 15.00 hrs onwards. Parking, partly covered, is available. Dinner is possible at the hotel from 18.00 till 22.00 hrs, but is not included in the participation fee. For organizational reasons, however, you are requested to inform the organizers on the application form, whether you will have dinner at the hotel on Thursday. The annual members meeting of the Tatra Freunde International is held that very evening between 20.00 and 21.15 in the “Oxford” room of the Hotel.
Friday morning, we have planned a route along the coast. Arriving in the Hague, we will visit the Louwman Vehicle Museum. http://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/?sc_lang=en The high quality collection is internationally oriented and consists of over 230 automobiles. The museum has allowed us to park our Tatras on their main square, in front of the museum. We will try to have a photo shoot here. But, as the parking space on their main square is limited, it will depend on the number of participants, whether all cars can be parked. After a tour through the museum, we will have a hot lunch, offered by the Tatra meeting sponsor “CHOPARD,” the well-known Swiss luxury watch- and jewellery manufacturer.
In the afternoon, we will continue to the city of Leiden and the old polders north of it, before we will use some unusual roads around Schiphol Airport. At the end of the afternoon, we continue west- and southwards through romantic scenery formed by sand dunes and polders, direction our NH hotel. At the evening, we will have dinner at the Chinese-Indonesian self-service restaurant “Flamengo,” just 200 m on foot from the hotel. Here the drinks are included!
After having enjoyed our breakfast, the rested Tatra fans will head eastwards to the Groene Hart area, the Green Heart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groene_Hart Travelling through a very relaxed polder scenery with romantic villages, we will stop at the village of Boskoop in the world’s biggest, joined floriculture area. We will have a boat tour through the many canals of Boskoop, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsLYaRfOoQ8 along the nurseries and nature areas, before having a hot lunch in Restaurant “Flora.” That afternoon, we will drive our Tatras through a lake area and use quite narrow, winding roads before we reach the former northern border of the Roman empire. Using less narrow roads, we then will return to the hotel. In the evening, you are invited to have a dinner buffet with the rally’s prize giving parallel and next to it.
Invitation http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Dokumente/Uitnodiging_Engels_final.pdf
Entry form: http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Dokumente/Aanmeldingsformulier_Engels_final.pdf
Text invitation as well as the applicationform are also available in German language: http://www.tatraclub.at/index.php?lang=de