CITY/REGION: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
MEETUP PLACE: Essen Exhibition – meeting point at 11am: “Entrance EAST”, in front of Hall 8
DATE: 27 May 2023
TIME: 11-17 CET
MEETUP PLAN: meeting new people, write postcards, visit exhibition stands of national postal administrations, meet other postcrossers and delegates/stamp collectors from the UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Palestine etc.
This year, two of the worldwide largest stamp exhibitions will take place in the German city of ESSEN from May 25th to 28th :
IBRA 2023
Briefmarken-Messe ESSEN
Entrance is free-of-charge.
We will meet at 11am at “Eingang OST” - in doubt or if delayed call or send me a WhatsApp-message at +49 177 6708311
Public Transport: subway U11 to station “Messe Ost”.
A car parking-structure is attached to the exhibition center. Follow signs reading “Messe/Gruga”. Navigation: “Norbertstrasse”
The exhibitions attract thousands of stamp collectors worldwide, but also offers seminars, competitions, award ceremonies, events, excursions, expert-seminars etc.
Various national postal administrations will have exhibition-stands to sell their national stamps and other postal products. We can drop our cards with them to be posted from their respective home countries:
- Åland
- Germany
- Estonia
- Färöer
- France
- Fiji
- Greenland
- UK
- Guernsey
- Jersey
- Croatia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Norway
- Austria
- Poland
- Romania
- Switzerland
- Czech Republic
- United Nations
To sit and write cards, the “Parkrestaurant” in Hall 7 will have ample seating - as long as we avoid the lunch rush.Unfortunately, we can not reserve.
For those who are interested in meeting delegations and Postcrossers from various countries of the Middle East, I am happy to make an introduction.
Meeting cards: everyone is invited to design meeting cards.
MeetUp-Video: for download
PARTICIPANTS:
@GermanInArabia +1 (Ralf & Khaled, 
)
@dabos (Abdulla Khoory, 
)
@Katrin1778 (Katrin)
@Weselfee79 (Sandra)
@tika (Heike)
@Axolotl_ +1 (Jenny & Alice)
@Robinchen (Nadine)
@kroete68 (Sabine)
@Jess-Cee (Jessica, 
)
@espritpapeterie (Donate)
@thepostalcharm (Kari)
@Niklot (Hanko)
@Meanderingmarvel (Rosslyn, )
@Kiki87 (Christiane)
@Millefolia (Birgit)
@LiveLaughLoveLeafs (Helen, )
@UtaElisa (Uta)
@Oscar1 (Oskar)
@SnowLilly (Selina)
@radiohead92 (Jonas)
@Heinz (Heinz)
@Tini2018 (Martina)
@Antje25 (Antje)
@mella68 (Helga)
@mailsanbuecherwurm
@ryanma (Ryan)
@Pistenqueen (Marie, )
@drheartbd (Dr. Redwan, )
@Adilalkhoori / @RX-Ferdos (Adel Khoory, )
@jayebirdi (Jaye)
@Mattin62 (Martin)
@Ylvi (Sabine)
@Dina2006 (Eldina)
@mondkind (Nicole)
@Namibia13 (Wiebke)
@Bayrisches-Madl (Sabine)
@elmnts (Henry)
@pumuckl (Ulrich)
For those who already want to sign up for the meetup at the stamp exhibition in Essen next year (2024), here is the respective link: 04 MAY 2024: ESSEN stamp exhibition meetup - various international postal administrations exhibiting
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