Travelog post for: Eebee

I was very excited thismorning. Today I got to meet many other toyvoyagers and lots of people from postcrossing. There's a meeting here in Essen to go over the Christmas market together.



Here they all spent a long time writing (and mostly signing) around 140 - 200 postcards. It might not sound like that much, but imagine signing 140 items one after the other. I spent the time looking out the window over the roofs of the city:



There to the left you can see the city hall.

Of course I also chatted with all the other toyvoyagers and learnt about their adventures.



Shortly before 1 p.m. we came to this carillon.

We stayed and waited for it to chime.

You can barely see that the lower doors are open then and little musician played a German Chirstmas song.



Next we went to the ferris wheel.

We got ourselves some tickets to ride it of course.


There's the Old Synagogue and the former engineering school.

Here's the minster of Essen. It was founded by a very influential ladies' convent (they werent nuns but unmarried or widowed ladies living in a (religious) community without taking any vows) in the middle ages that was the basis for the city of Essen.


We couldn't take pictures in the minster because there was what looked like the drees rehearsal for the concert of a youth choir. We did walk through the cloister, though.





Much later, after getting a traditional Bratwurst in a bun we visited the largest part of the Christmas market. The postcrossers had to drop off their postcards at the post stand to get the special Christmas cancellation.

Here you can see me in front of one of the big stands that sells Christmas decorations. The nutcrackers on the top are a typical and often still handmade German product from the Erzgebirge region in eastern Germany.

By that time I was freezing and really wanted to go home. It was also windy and rained on and off all day, so I am happy to get home to some hot tea.