Well, we got back on Sunday afternoon feeling tired, dirty and utterly thrilled with our haul of pottery! We’d had a fantastic second week in Germany, staying with another of the Pottery and Glass forum members near Nuremburg, before heading back up to the Essen area to look for more pottery. One of the best…
Finds from Stuttgart!
Very quick post as we are in a slightly seedy internet cafe… Following photos are from Micha Kempf (thanks!) showing some of our finds as of last Saturday. More to follow when we get home!
Ransbach-Baumbach and Jopeko
After Essen, we had to make our way South towards Worms and Speyer. Before we set off, we trundled around a few more Trödelmarkts, filling the car up even further. Once Tina was fit to bursting yet again, we began the next leg of our journey. We spotted that our route was going to take…
Part Two: The Ruhrgebeit
Another thing about me and travelling: map-reading. I’m pretty shocking at it. I have a tendency to send us off a junction or road too early, can’t seem to orientate the map and find it really difficult to follow where we are on our route. This hasn’t helped us being able to find Trödelmarkts which…
German Road Trip: Travelling, Tongeren and Trödelmarkts
It probably wasn’t a good sign when I got us lost in Britain. Our first stopover was to break up the journey to Dover, staying at Aidan’s brother’s house in Letchworth. Unfortunately, I managed to direct Aidan off the motorway a stop too early and we spent a good half an hour trundling down some…
A Mini Ebay Purchase
My latest Ebay find – quite poor advertising meant this was mine for £7 including postage: Goes quite nicely with my other one: We’re going to Germany tomorrow. I’m a little bit excited, so thought I’d do a bit of WGP blogging to get me even more excited. I have also listened to Neneh Cherry’s…
A West German Road Trip
I must start off with an apology – I’m extremely sorry for how poor I’ve been on the blogging front recently. As always, my excuse is time. I’ve been too busy for the past month: marking exams, car boot sales, general day to day life etc. So, I’m afraid the blog got slightly neglected. Happily…
Car Boot Sale Finds
Unfortunately, it has decided to bucket it down with rain today. We had planned to do a car boot sale this morning; car was packed and ready to go. However, waking up to rain at 6am put paid to that idea and the usual Sunday morning lounging was resumed! I do have some bits and…
A Very Vintage Fishy Story…
This is a tale of a plate, a very fishy plate. Virtually everyone who’s interested in retro, vintage, mid century modern, 60s, 70s, etc. etc. will recognise the following plates: I’ve got a set, you’ve got a set; everyone has got a set. Usually bought from some old dear at a car boot sale who…
Louis Shabner Vintage Prints
As mentioned yesterday, Aidan bought a Louis Shabner print from a car boot sale last Sunday. Excuse me while I go to ask him how much he paid for it… It was one whole English pound. I’ve been doing a little bit of an internet search, just to see what information there is available about…
Aidan’s Big Booty…
…I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist. I know the exact look that Aidan is going to give me when he sees that title as well. It’s a head shake and, “Ohhhh Emma!” in his Baaarnsley accent, despairing at my pathetic attempts at toilet humour. Yes, I said toilet humour (watched an episode of ‘I’m Alan Partridge this…
Little Owl Ski 