A report from Koscielisko … WIMA-Rally 2014
Once again, start of August: It’s Rally time!
Michaela, Elsbeth, Renate, Gertha, Jane with son Maxwell, Anneliese and Berti went to Zakopane, Poland, to meet with approx. 250 other motorbike addicted girls (incl. 4{2b294505d6001a2994145ce95566f61c7b6d4c5ec7a34f5ce46db843ff2f0d8d} men attending too) for a week in beautiful Koscielisko.
Uli, Birgit and Lili, Margot and Su choose different days and routes for their arrival. We had decided to have a stress-less two day journey, so we could see some parts of Czechoslovakia too.
It’s a kind of tradition, that a least 2 bikes will end wheels up somewhere in the dirt …
This time it happened that Anneliese, with her enormous panier’s, tried to get through and nudged Renate and her bike, so she lost her balance, and …
Three days afterwards, Janes Honda decided to swim on the wet tarmac in Zakopane and slided into the opposing traffic. Thank God, nothing serious happened, only one blinker of Renates bike and the headlight and parts of the fairing of Janes Bike got damaged.
Rain kept the momentum over the whole week, sometimes streets looked more rivers, then streets, but shortly after the sun was there again and everything happy again.
The only day solely with rain, was the parade day. nevertheless, more than 60 girls participated the whole daily program from Maura.
We must say, despite the bad weather conditions, the polish organization team (only 4 persons – Maura, the Polish Wima-Head, her husband, her daughter und a girl friend) did a great job .
We were accommodated in a big hotel – a very good choice, in respect to the heavy rainy weather ;-). the kitchen, with the daily breakfast- and dinner buffet were first class and the late evening at the bar, with wine and wodka …
A folk dance group, a bus travel to Krakow and Auschwitz, as well as the obligatory riddle tour filled the week. Too soon, the week was over, and we had to travel back to Austria.