WCCE8 2013 – a missed opportunity!

A nostalgic trip in England

How I remember my Dad at work

A model railway  museum

Something else that I missed in the WCCE8 2013 rush –

http://www.mec-ffb.de/

 

I read about the Model Railway Club of Fürstenfeldbruck in the lovely little booklet about Fürstenfeldbruck that I think was in my yellow Congress Bag. There was little enough time to read the Programme or delve into the Abstract Book, that were also in that bag, let alone look at the tourist information during the Congress, so it was only on the train home that I found out about what else I had missed.

How pleased I was when I read further and discovered that the museum closes each year for a few weeks and this was exactly the time that I was in Fürstenfeldbruck. I would have been furious if I had missed visiting a museum all about trains that was under my nose, at Bahnhofstrasse 20, right on the route to the Congress venue.

I know that there was at least one other railway enthusiast at the Congress. If I had known about the museum before-hand I would have tried to organise a pre-congress visit for several participants!  

Perhaps I will make a return trip to Fürstenfeldbruck one day soon, during the open season of the Museum. I would also like to have time to look around the cloister and its church too, other things that in the Cngress there was just not enough time to do properly.

November Bank Holiday

Dusk at the South Cemetery in Nürnberg

My pine-cone pixie from Christmas 2012 and today's flowers hanging side-by-side

All Hallows' – The Day of the Dead

I wanted to get out of the house about lunchtime, the time when I knew there would be lots of people travelling on public transport to pay their respects to deceased loved ones in the cemeteries on all sides of the city.

But of course, by the time that I had breakfasted late, done the washing up, cleaned the floors and tidied away several piles of books, it was late afternoon. I was going to say getting dark but it was dark all day, that November greyness that arrived on this the first day of the month, after weeks of autumn sunshine.

Arriving at the cemetery I was glad that I had left it so late to take my flowers because, although the evening was getting cold, the atmosphere was lovely. This atmosphere was set by the red, twinkling graveside lanterns and the stillness that lay upon the place despite its many visitors.

After a sit on my favourite bench and a walk amongst the huge trees, to soak up a bit more of the atmosphere and to take a few photographs, I made my way home by tram.

An extra treat

I was delighted while waiting for the tram to hear an unfamiliar yet recognisable sound. This old-timer came trundling by with a private party taking place on board.  

Johannis Cemetery

Johannis Cemetery

I went for a walk last week in the most famous of Nürnberg’s cemeteries, the place where Albrecht Dürer, Adam Kraft, Veit Stoß  and other well known local people are buried. 

I try to go every year

I take roses for my old friend to share with my Mum –

http://www.susie-mallett.org/2010/11/day-of-dead.html