WÖRTHERSEE ORIGINALS
At the time of writing we should have been taking part in the annual International Golf GTI Treffen in Wörthersee, Austria but Covid 19 raised its very ugly head and put pay to this plan and many others. While hugely disappointing, I guess we’ll be looking forward to the 40th anniversary event in 2021 all the more, though…
In the meantime, we’ve got time to reflect on our very first visit to the awesome ’See, the 6th GTI Treffen way back in 1987 and share some of our experiences of that time and the following couple of years.
We’d read about the event – not quite sure where as this was preinternet days and a lot of the UK VW mags were still predominantly air-cooled - and we knew it was big. We were expecting a gathering of GTI fans on a mass scale but it turned out to be so much more – discovery, adventure, lifelong friendships (even leading to marriage for a couple
