Patrick is in the house!

Patrick again did us a nice favour by bringing us together again. We spent a lovely evening, talking about old times and new times. ETP4 alive and kicking.But see for yourself....

Frenchmen have really old fashioned ties !

Another flash back... to our past but nice crazyness ! (BTW Peter how's your left ear ?)

We all look so old!

Sorry - did not make the event, but sounds like it was fun. I had a broken aircraft in Borneo and had to assembly another aircraft in Zhuhai China the weekend of the reunion. Anyone likes flying small aircraft over oceans, jungle etc. and would like a relaxing life come and join me on one of the flights! After each flight I seem to age 10 years............... a little different to my Airbus days, anyway I now speak Chinese as well as the Japanese, travel from around Asia every week and discovered there is more to Asia than Japan. Japan is still though my first home in Asia!

Pictures of the Tokyo reunion from Dermot

ETP-IV - The Next Generation.  Alyssa (Ally) Tully (9) attends the Tokyo reunion

 
Ladies table - Hiroko & Alyssa (Tully) with Kumiko (Barthelemy) & Vanida (Visscher)

' and sitting to my right ...the lovely Kumiko (wife of Jean Barthelemy)

Patrick who simply 'radiates' his happiness

 
"Double Dutch" - Herbie & Jos

Ulrike - Eberhard's wife

Hiroko - Anthony's wife

Erik who traveled all the way from Denmark

Eberhard - back on his second (or is third?) posting in Japan

Happy to be going Dutch - Vanida Visscher and Tara Van der Valk

Some more pictures of our recent get-together in Aoyama (especially of the attractive ladies who attended and made it such a memorable night!). And for all of you who could not get to Tokyo this time, don't worry - there was talk on the night of holding the next reunion in Europe some time next year (at least it was a serious discussion from what I recall - before Anthony Tully made me join him for a 'nijikai' followed by another 'nijikai' ;>).   Twenty five years on  - well some things never change!  

 

At some point, I believe we toasted our 'absent friends', but like I say, my memory is somewhat hazy, but I do remember there were many lovely ladies at the party - err.. I mean - reunion!

Cheers,

Dermot 

Pictures of the reunion

Well, we've had our reunion. 10 out of 35 were there, which is not a bad result taking into account that the event was held in Tokyo. It was nice to see each other again, hear the stories about what happened to each of us (and the gossip about the others of course) and, by the end of the evening, to realise that actually we haven't changed that much in the last 25 years. Many thanks to Tony for organising this!

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Kind regards,

Patrick

Hideko and Christian W. could not be there

Hello everyone,

If I could summarize in a few words what happened to Hideko and me along the past 20 years, I would say: "IN & OUT". Some might say, no wonder, but actually I would never have imagined that we would go out of Japan and back in again so many times.

Let's look back at our diary in a very simple matter starting from 1985, end of ETP IV:

3 years in Japan, 6 years in France, 2 years in Japan, 5 years in France, 6 years in Japan, 1,5 years in France... if you count well, this leads us to 2008!

Another interesting statistics: 60 round trips between France and Japan during the last stay in Japan. I'm sure it does ring a bell to some of you.

Well I survived and we are happy to settle down in France now, and most probably for the rest of my working life, which should end after another set of 3 summer olympic games... ;>)

In conclusion, I would say that I shall do my best to be in Japan for the November "summit", but due to family-in-law matters, it is very difficult to plan for now.

Hoping to hear from some of you soon. Cheers. Christian W.