Travelog post for: Crush

Yay, I arrived in Germany! And just in time to go and pick up my host's pet bird from the pigeon clinic. I asked if she keeps pigeons, but she doesn't. However the German Federation of Homing Pigeons has its seat in Essen and also keeps a clinic that treats all kinds of birds and some reptiles. In the waiting room we were greeted by these homing pigeans looking out the windows of their boxes.



On the way I looked out the window. This used to be a coal mining and steel work area, still is as much as any area in Germany atill does coal mining. In fact, we are only few streets away from Zollverein coal mining complex, a UNESCO world heritage site. Maybe I can visit it one day.

Here are some typical houses of the centers of the former villages that now make up the city of Essen

and some one family homes as they were built in the 60s. (Plus busses, the main way for many people to move around in this and the neighboring cities, there are also trams, a subway in the city center and of course regional as well as faster trains.)


Garden communities for people who live in flats are often along the railway lines.