The Cannes film festival will be celebrating , on May 14th , its 61st year of existence . For a fortnight swimwear will be replaced by Tuxedos and long dresses.  Glamour will be in the limelight .

On Sunday May 25th , the closing day ,  there will be in Monaco , some 40 miles away , the Formula one Grand Prix  ....Soon after  the Publicity film Festival and the International Horse Jumping competition will end a month in which hotel room availibility is next to none .

 All this to say that i will be a difficult person to contact during that period , period during which Switzerland and Morocco will hold their National "AGM" and Gala (week-end of the 23rd to the 25th)

I shall  , in the months to come , visit Paris for a meeting with the European Zone Directors , attend 3 different International meetings in Brussels ,  Baden Baden and Helsinki  and , in November go to China  , more precisely to Hangzhou , to humbly help  John Sun Dong in his challenge to organise a great International Congress in March 2009 . Last but not least ,  together with the International committee and Zone Directors , we shall join our Italian colleagues in Olbia (Sardinia) during their National "AGM" and take this opportunity to debrief on the year gone by  but also plan our actions for 2009

I will keep you all informed of the outcome of all these diverse meetings in my next correpondances

Once more i wish you all the very best that life can give

Your friend  ,

R.BASTONI