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Part One - photos of our 45th anniversary year events

Quiz night - 16th November - over 55 members and friends join together in Broadway House for our second quiz night of 2019.  Quizmaster Jonathan Fison, Raffle and quiz scorer Trevor Hearn, Fish and Chips from the Bounty Fish Bar, and Jenny and the team looking after the food and clearing up afterwards.  Many thanks - a fun evening and fund-raising for our "visitor hospitality fund"

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November - Members of the Association making their traditional visit to Felixstowe's Langley Avenue Cemetery to lay emblematic tokens on the graves of German W W 2 forces graves.

Visit of the Stadtischer Musikvereien Wesel e.V. performing a concert with the Dorian Singers in St John's Church Felixstowe on Saturday 19th October 2019

During their visit to Snape Malting and doing an unofficial performance ! 

During the after-concert supper in Broadway House

The traditional group photo before boarding their coach for the return journey home

 

Photographs of the VHSchule visit to Felixstowe in May/June 2019 and the official 45th Celebration weekend in June 2019

 Part 2  - some photographs of twinning activities in 2018

Quiz night at the Fire Station - November 2018

Jenny Holland at the German War graves November 2018

Newspaper clip of the Felixstowe Group who visited Wesel in September 2018

(Thanks to NRZ - NR235 / NWS02 NRZ  Mittwoch 10. Oktober 2018)

The next  five were taken on Felixstowe's Carnival Saturday 28th July

and the next one taken after our farewell evening meal together.

Next some photographs taken at Peewit Camp site with the Wesel Fire Cadets entertaining guests from Felixstowe

Part Three - some photographs of twinning activities in 2017

November - Association members laying flowers on the German War Graves in Felixstowe

 

October - Wesel visitors outside the Orwell Hotel

 

 

October - Wesel visitors enjoying an evening meal at the Ferry Boat Inn.

 

November - Felixstowe members with Wesel Committee members in Hotel Kaiserhof

Part Four - a stroll through Wesel town centre

Leaving the station building, this is your first view of the town centre - an avenue of trees going though some lovely gardens

Reaching the end of the gardens, crossing over the inner city tree lined ring road, the first building to your right is the Kaiserhof Hotel - a very popular hotel with visitors from Felixstowe. The tall structure you can see behind the hotel, is the local radio and TV mast - a useful landmark if you lose your sense of direction as you wander through the town.

Carry onto into town until you see the Berliner Tor. This massive structure was originally part of the ancient city defence wall, but is now home to a restaurant and bar. The area around the Berliner Tor is, together with the main market square, the focal point of major events held in Wesel. Come here to see the outside ice-skating ring set up for the Christmas season.

Peeping over the top of the building on the left hand side of the picture, you can see the top of the town's water tower.

Walking past the Berliner Tor look to the right hand side of the square to see the main Post Office building, then cross the road using the pedestrian priority crossing, and you enter the pedestrianised main shopping road.

Wander through the town shopping area, taking in the wide range of shops - everything from "high street" chain stores to quirky individual shopping outlets.

The next major landmark is the Willibrodi Dom - the town's cathedral. Heavily damaged during WW11 the cathedral has now been restored to its former glory.

Passing the cathedral, we look back to see the building from the other direction as we walk onwards through the town.

We have now reached the outskirts of the inner town and are now heading down the tree-lined roadway that will soon bring us to the Rhine promenade.

At last, after our short walk of about one mile, we have arrived at the Rhine promenade with views up (towards Cologne and Switzerland) or downstream towards Holland and the North Sea