In August 2001, I was sent to Germany on a business trip by my employer. I had posted on the discussion forum on 1000steine.de: “any German LEGO fans want to meet me?”. I ended up visiting Holger Matthes at his home in Mönchengladbach. For the whole trip report, see my travel blog, Roaming Bill. Here we talk just about the LEGO.
On Sunday, I went back up to the Düsseldorf area, to the city of Mönchengladbach, to meet up with some fellow LEGO® fans. Holger, Jan, and Jojo are LEGO train enthusiasts who discovered at a recent meeting of their LEGO train club that there were not nearly enough buildings and other accessories to go along with their trains. So when we met, we built some LEGO train buildings and other similar items. I built a pedestrian overpass, so the LEGO minifigs can get from one platform to the other without being run over by the trains. It was the first time I’ve worked in collaboration with other LEGO builders, and I think it was very successful.
More pictures of this day’s work can be found on Holger’s Brickshelf page (click “Up” to see more of his creations).
Migrated from my old blosxom blog, formerly at bill.wards.net/blosxom on 2026-04-24
