GOODWILL TOUR OF EUROPE
SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED!
The Goodwill Tour of Europe was a smash
success! Many thanks to our hosts in Italy, Denmark, Finland &
France for all their efforts and the warm welcome extended to The Carl Barks Fan Club!
You can read all about the Goodwill Tour in a special edition newsletter jam-packed with photos and interesting stories. This newsletter is available on our
Newsletters page, or by clicking
the following link:
Goodwill Tour of Europe
special edition newsletter
Sept-Dec.
2005, Issue 23-25 (1.77 M)
GOODWILL TOUR OF EUROPE
October - November 2005
(Note: The Goodwill Tour of
Europe has
successfully concluded, but the following promotional article is being
left on this page to explain what the tour is about.)
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Join us for
a once-in-a-lifetime
"trip of discovery!"
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The Carl Barks Fan Club has finalized our plans for our European tour this Fall.
Some accommodations in the various cities have yet to be finalized, but
air arrangements have been made. The centerpiece of the tour will be the
Barks International Art Exhibition to be held in Rapallo, Italy, from
September 17 through October 2, 2005!
We are also planning on visiting 3 other “hub” cities to meet with various
comic book publishers as well as various Carl Barks clubs and societies
throughout Europe.
Please contact ED BERGEN ASAP if you would like to accompany 8-10
of our club members (so far) on this Carl Barks/Disney Duck event of the
year! The entire trip or portions thereof are open to ALL CBFC CLUB
MEMBERS!! CBFC member, Tom Barker, plans to go on the entire trip and
produce a professional video of our tour!
Airfare for ALL LEGS of the journey has come in at a very reasonable
$1400-1500 so far with the total trip estimated to be in the range of
$4,000-5,000! (PLEASE NOTE: No CBFC treasury funds are being used for any
travel expenses…ALL individual trip participants are traveling at their
own expense).
Given the current exchange rate between the dollar and the euro being what
it is, the estimated cost seems to be reasonable!
ITINERARY
September 25
Depart Chicago/O’Hare, Air France Flight #51
September 26th
Arrive Paris, France for 2 nights (Hotel St. Germain,
near Notre Dame). Visit PICSOU (Scrooge) Magazine Publishing offices,
Disneyland Paris, other sight-seeing!
September 28th
Depart Paris, France, Air France Flight 5038; Arrive
Florence, Italy; Drive by car to Rapallo, Italy, for 1st of 5 overnights
during Barks International Art Exhibition.
October 1st
 A VERY special Cartoonists’ dinner is scheduled at U
Giancu restaurant just outside downtown Rapallo. This is an event not to
be missed as restaurateur, Fausto Oneto, not only serves some of the BEST
Italian cuisine your will ever experience, but has the walls of U Giancu
covered with comic art! Fausto has a special relationship with many comic
artists from around the world and the culmination of this Barks
International Art Festival at U Giancu will be special indeed! Exhibition
awards will be presented and our CBFC group also plans to make special
presentations to several Disney Duck artists who have continued to build
upon the profound legacy of CARL BARKS!
Truly a GALA EVENING is planned!!
SPECIAL hotel rates will also be
available for CBFC club members at the following hotels in and around
Rapallo:
1) Hotel Excelsior (5 stars), Via S.
Michele di Pagana 8. Tel. 0185 230666, Fax: 0185 230214, Website:
www.excelsiorpalace.thi.it.
2) Hotel Astoria (4 stars), Via Gramsci
4. Tel: 0185 273533, Fax: 0185 62793, Website:
www.astoriarapallo.it.
3) Hotel Europa (4 stars) Via Milite
Ignoto 2. Tel: 0185 669521, Fax: 0185 669847, Website:
www.hoteleuropa-rapallo.com.
4) Hotel Tigullio e Royal (4 stars) P.zza
IV Novembre 3. Tel: 0185 273805, Fax: 0185 230453, Website:
www.hoteltigullioroyal.it.
5) Hotel Cavour (3 stars) Galleria Raggio
20. Tel: 0185 54040, Fax: 0185 54041, Website:
www.hotelcavour.biz.
6) Hotel l’Approdo (3 stars) Via S.
Michele di Pagana 160. Tel: 0185 234568, Fax: 0185 234545, Website:
www.approdohotel.it.
7) Hotel Stella (3 stars) Via Aurelia
Ponente 6. Tel: 0185 50367, Fax: 0185 272837, Website:
www.hotelstella-riveria.com.
The following will give you an idea of a
“package” the Rapallo group can offer us CBFC members: 2 overnights
(accommodation in double room, hotel 3 or 4 stars, continental
breakfast) AND 2 dinners in a “typical” restaurant starting from 185,00
Euro per person. You are encouraged, however, to contact the website
incentive@schoonerviaggi.it and address any request to the “kind
attention of Erika”. Excursion information around Rapallo is also
available at this website! There are MANY “things to do” in the Rapallo
area besides the Barks art festival. PLEASE INQUIRE FOR MORE INFORMATION
or consult a Tuscany or Northern Italy travel guide!
October 3rd
Return to Florence, Italy, by car for 2 nights in
Florence (our present group is staying at Villa La Sosta, Via Bolognese,
83, Tel/Fax: +39 055 495073, Website: www.villalasosta.com). Our group is
also planning a “wine tour of Tuscany” during our 2 days in Florence.
October 5: Depart Florence, Italy, Air France Flight 5041; Arrive Paris,
France, for overnight.
October 6th
Depart Paris, France, Air France Flight 1750; Arrive
Copenhagen, Denmark. Plans are to visit Egmont Publishers (the
publisher of the NEW Carl Barks Library due out later in 2005), and to
visit with various Scandinavian Carl Barks Societies re: partnerships
surrounding the Barks legacy. Other sight-seeing, etc.
October 9th
Depart Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavian Airlines Flight
712; Arrive Helsinki, Finland. Visit Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) Publishing
Offices and meet with other Barks authorities, groups, and collectors.
Other sight-seeing, etc.
October 12th
Depart Helsinki, Finland, Scandinavian Airlines Flight
6606; Arrive Copenhagen, Denmark; Depart Copenhagen, Denmark, Air France
Flight 1051, Arrive Paris, France, for overnight.
October 13th
Depart Paris, France, Air France Flight 50; Arrive
Chicago/O’Hare (3:25 PM)!
A FEW MORE NOTES...
Although our itinerary did not allow us to schedule any “hub” cities in
Germany this trip, our group would love to visit with members of the
German D.O.N.A.L.D. Society and all other Barks fans in Germany!! We would
LOVE to plan 1 or 2 side-trips into Germany from one of our “hub” cities
(depending upon in which German city(ies) meetings could be scheduled)!
Our German CBFC members are VERY IMPORTANT to our club! German Members:
PLEASE CONTACT ME AS SOON AS YOU CAN re: possible arrangements!!
It is my hope that the above information is sufficient for you to MAKE A
DECISION re: joining our group on this Carl Barks/Disney Duck CBFC “trip
of a lifetime”! Please feel free to contact
Ed Bergen, with any
specific questions.
As flight availability as well as pricing change quickly, please check the
above-mentioned flights (we made the actual reservations on
Travelocity.com) for a current status report. We will also be
firming other accommodation and transportation (car and/or train) plans in
the NEAR future! Again, please contact me for updates! Our present CBFC
group of 8-10 world travelers hope that YOU WILL CONSIDER JOINING our
intrepid band!! It will certainly BE a trek to remember!!
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