Travelog post for: Rhinono

This is me in Hämeenlinna! A city 1h15min drive north from Porvoo. I went to a postcard event called Korttien tarinat ("the stories of cards") with my host and some fellow toyvoyagers. We had an international Postcrossing Meetup there too!

The place where the event was held is called Verkatehdas. It's an old factory that now is used as congress center, place for seminars and events. The place was full of postcards! People selling postcards, artists signing their postcards, postcards on exhibition, new postcards, old postcards...    The grey haired lady signing postcards is Inge Löök, the artist who draws the "old granies". My host bought a few of her cards with her signature.

I met other postcrossers - and Snoopy! He was kindly giving away his own cards. The other postcrossers I met were the ones signed up for the Meetup but also postcrossers who were selling postcards and postcrossers who were visiting the event but had no idea we had a meetup. The event organizers had put a table for us - not telling us about it  They were "hoping that one of us would sit there and tell people about Postcrossing"  Well, we didn't as we had no material or laptop with us - and no-one had told us they "were hoping" it. My host wrote a note saying "we're buying postcards, please visit www.postcrossing.com for further information on Postcrossing". They did interview one of our Meetup people for the radio! 

Can you guess how many cards we signed on our "coffe break"? 409!