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Although our Speed Dating walks create many matches - we can now boast four perfect matches resulting in three weddings and one engagement!! We give you the chance to meet the perfect person or just have a lot of fun with like-minded people.
The next Speed Dating walk will take place on Sunday 6th May 2012 and regeistration forms are now available. Age groups will be mixed, but it provides a great chance at the beginning and end of the walk to socialise and meet all walkers.
Registration for the Speed Dating Walk is £12.00 (to include a lunch at the romatic setting of the Fisherman's Cottage on the beach Shanklin Esplanade, on the return after the walk. This gives all walkers the chance to chat to each other and hopefully could be the beginning of new friendships.
Please send a cheque made payable to the Isle of Wight Council with your application form.
MEN - there is always a shortage of MEN!!!! Please if you are single, come along and join in as it really is alot of fun - you don't have to be looking for "Romance" "Friendship" is fine!
REGISTER TODAY!!
For further details on any of the walks, please contact Elaine Cesar on (01983) 823099 Ext 5224 or email Elaine.cesar@iow.gov.uk.
Please read the article below which was sent earlier this month, from the first couple who wed five years ago after meeting on our very first "Speed Dating Walk" ........
March 12 2006 seems a long time and another lifetime ago now. It was a bitterly cold day when we joined a nervous looking assortment of people for the first Island Speed Dating walk. Various emotions, nervous laughter, anxious chatter, knowing smiles, assessing glances, frowns and feigned nonchalance flitted across the faces of the assembled group in the pub at Wroxall like butterflies amongst summer flowers.
A need to make contact with someone equally nervous and equally unsure of what to do prompted Eric to talk to the two nearest people in the crowded bar.
Someone was smiling on him as his nervous conversation lead to the realisation that the person he was talking to shared his interest in golf, (he'd left westridge Golf Course just an hour before the start of the walk), walking, dogs and so on. By the time we paired up, (and as chance would have it we had the same starting number) we could have walked back into the pub and skipped the walk as conversation flowed and shared interests came to light.
5 years on we are still sharing those interests in our house in France. Huge decisions followed as we sold two houses, were married in April 2007 and moved to France 2 days later. Together we pursued a dream and set up a smallholding with sheep, pigs, geese, and chickens for meat and eggs. Turning a rough 2 acres of ground into pasture and vegetable patch was a hard challenge and took effort. Not just with the physical side of things but getting to grips with doing everything in a different language, with different systems and different practices. We have had so many funny, maddening, exciting and frustrating experiences it would fill a book. But it all started on that first Island walk.
Since being in France we have moved house after our application for immigration to Canada didn't work out. We are not sorry as we love the new house and area and we have stayed closer to family and friends in England. Our neighbours, French and English are very special and as we grow to understand the natural reticence of the Cruesoise people we treasure the developing relationships we have with the people we meet.
It hasn't always been straightforward and at times has challenged a new relationship but there have been so many moments to treasure and it is often that the end of the day looking out across the valley of the Creuse river we raise our glasses to the organisers of the very first Island Speed Dating Walk.
A huge thank you to all concerned.
ERIC & PHILLIP