Jaipur Heritage Round Table 185

In  continuation of JHRT’s focus on One of the four pillars of tabling ” International  Tabling”.  Team JHRT Consisting of Tr. Anjal Kumar  with  Pooja and Tr. Sanjay Porwal with Twinkle went travelling all the way to Europe to specially to   attend  10^thAnniversary Celebrations of Our counterparts in Netherlands, Table 185, Woerdan. 

On 13^th June , 2008 We were  received at Eindhoven  Airport by Table Chairman Frank and Past President Laurence, from where we drove down to Woerdan some 120 KMS. away. It is a small Town of 40,000.  All around are green fields , lakes and canals. We stayed at the tabler’s houses, special care was taken for our food as we were Vegetarians and  in a meat eating country.  It was difficult for them Cook for us. So they did the best thing, making for us 5 dishes instead of one,! Wondering whether  we would like them or not!! In the Evening  we went to  a Old Farm house to cheer for Netherlands Football team for Euro 2008 match Against France, which Of course they  Won due to Our support!! We were all dressed in bright Orange outfits and Funny caps.  Placed some bets at the betting table and won !

  Early Next day on 14^th June, All of  us along with Tablers of Germany 185 and England 985, went to Amsterdam for an Unforgettable 3 hours  Cycling trip with a guide to show and tell us about  the history of Amsterdam, followed by a Boat sight seeing tour  with Lots of Wine and Food!!

In the Evening We went to  A Chateau or Fort  of 12^th Century Vintage for the Gala Night Celebrations. We were welcomed by  A team of Trumpet blowers and were announced to the audience of 100 and odd including the Mayor of Woerdan.  After the short Speeches, An auction was held to raise funds, in which interesting  articles such as Vintage Wine of the year Table 185 was chartered, Picture of past Presidents etc.were auctioned. They Graciously added to the Auction List   4  Elephants brought by us , which were auctioned Off  for an amazing amount of 1650 Euros,!  This amount was raised for our Sunshine Account within 5 minutes!

Our Table Bought the White Blazer at the auction fighting the bids from German and England tables , This gives us the right to Host Number meetings of “85 tables from all around the world, which we plan to, in the coming tabling year.

Special mention should be made of Our Hosts who took special care to make us feel comfortable at their homes.

During this trip we also met  Tablers from RT-4,Salzburg,  Austria and RT-22 Florence, Italy,  Exchanged pins and flags with them.

All in all in reconfirmed Our Belief in Tabling as a Wonderful Movement.

YIT,

Tr. Sanjay Porwal

VC, Fellowship Convenor, JHRT 185
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When we are inducted in to tabling, we hear phrases like ‘You will find friends wherever you go”. ” International Relationship is one of the Pillars of Tabling’ and so on.

These phrases are listened to, and in most cases forgotten as the time passes by as we get into routine of tabling.

After two years as a tabler, I was falling in the same rut and took tabling as just another routine work.

Then, I happened to visit Europe on business trip in Sept.,07. I was visiting 3-4 countries and had some appointment free evenings . Casually and not really believing it, I went to R.T. International web site and got the contact info of the tables in the cities I was visiting, I introduced myself to them and asked whether they would be free to meet me on so and so date. I got the replies immediately from all the tables! That got me interested.

RT-37, Brescia, Italy

My first visit was to Brescia a town near Milan, Italy. After reaching these I called up IRO Tr. Cristoforo of RT 37, and incidentally the only guy who would speak some English! He said his tablers were all very excited to see me and planned a dinner for me in the evening.

I look my local business contact Enrico alongwith me to meet the tablers of RT 37, Italy. First,. We went to Treplay bar for drinks where I met the tablers and was introduced to them by Tr. Cristoforo. From there, off we went to a traditional Italian Restaurant, G.A. Portari, which was a regular meeting place for RT 37, These I was welcomed by 11 present tablers and two 41′ers Tr.Andrea Zerneri Secretary Area I was also there, Chairman Tr. Marco Zerneri officially welcomed me. Then along with the excellent 5 course dinner, we shared the tabling activities of our tables. They showed much interest in FTE and were impressed to know about our find raiser Mega Kids Carniwal

We exchanged the table Flags & pins, each of the tabler signed the flag and wrote message for our tablers . I was all so gifted some CD’s and Italian Tabling directory.

I introduced my business associate Enrico to them and he was so impressed that he wanted to join the table. So, after giving RT-37 one prospective tabler, I left them around 1 AM with lots of bye-byes and goodwill.

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