{"id":1820,"date":"2014-09-08T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2014-09-08T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:44:00","slug":"muenster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2014\/muenster\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvellous Friendship Link Visit to Muenster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Members of Soroptimist International Muenster extended the hand of friendship to 18 visitors from SI St Albans and District and SI Trier for the weekend of 29-31 September.\u00a0Five members of the St Albans Club, three husbands and Beatriz Chadour-Sampson (the Soroptimist who started the friendship link) all travelled to Muenster along with nine Members of SI Trier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"08-Muenster at Sylvias Group Phone Box Web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/08-Muenster-at-Sylvias-Group-Phone-Box-Web-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The visit began with a brunch at the home of Dr Sylvia Vorhnhecke \u2013 after our early start that morning a huge spread of food was demolished in no time! The sun shone, and we were able to renew friendships, start to make new friends, eat, drink \u2013 and admire Sylvia\u2019s husband\u2019s collection of British artifacts including a traditional British red telephone box installed in the garden!\u00a0The hospitality from SI Muenster was wonderful from the moment we arrived, until the moment we left. The President of SI Trier is a wine maker and provided delicious Mosel wine for everyone over the weekend \u2013 what a treat!<\/p>\n<p>Next on the agenda was a visit to the harbour area of Muenster \u2013 an area focused on art, culture, bars and restaurants \u2013 perfect for Soroptimists!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"11-Muenster Harbour Group Web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/11-Muenster-Harbour-Group-Web-300x240.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"22-Muenster Denise Marie-Eva Presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/22-Muenster-Denise-Marie-Eva-Presentation-240x300.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" \/>The evening was spent in the home of SI Muenster\u2019s Club President Marie-Eva Tumbrink \u2013 we are still not sure how we fitted into her lovely apartment and all sat down to a delicious meal with wine. Here our President Denise Powell was able to present our host with gifts \u2013 a book of National Trust Gardens as a symbol of our growing friendship and\u00a0to inspire Members of SI Muenster to visit the UK. We presented every member of their Club with a packet of Forget-Me-Not seeds \u2013 chosen for their meaning of friendship, in support of SI Europe\u2019s environmental programme of work and because they are Soroptimist blue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"39-Muenster Cycle and Sculpture Tourweb\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/39-Muenster-Cycle-and-Sculpture-Tourweb-225x300.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/37-Muenster-Cycle-and-Sculpture-Tourweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"37-Muenster Cycle and Sculpture Tourweb\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/37-Muenster-Cycle-and-Sculpture-Tourweb-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we had a guided tour of the lovely cathedral city of Muenster, including the Municipal Museum \u2013 where we were taken on the tour by Barbata Romme who is Director of the Museum and also a Member of SI Muenster.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch there was a cycling tour of the sculpture projects in Muenster. By this time it was raining \u2013 so those that did go on the tour were very determined, and earned a well deserved coffee and cake afterwards!<\/p>\n<p>The evening saw us at the lovely home of Dr Sabine Schiller-Lerg. Once more the generous hospitality made for a wonderful dinner party \u2013 good food \u2013 good company \u2013 lots of ideas and news to share \u2013 what more could you ask for?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/47-Muenster-Schloss-Vischering-Group-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"47-Muenster Schloss Vischering Group Web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/47-Muenster-Schloss-Vischering-Group-Web-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>On Sunday we visited not one but two\u00a0<em>\u201cschlosses\u201d<\/em>\u00a0before being taken to the airport at Dortmund. The first was Vischering Schloss at Ludinghausen \u2013 a beautiful traditional moated castle dating back to before the 15th century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"50-Muenster Schloss Nordkirche Group web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/50-Muenster-Schloss-Nordkirche-Group-web-300x240.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second<em>schloss<\/em>\u00a0is the beautiful baroque style Nordkirchen palace\u00a0which was built in the\u00a0early 18th century and is known as the \u201cVersailles of Westphalia\u201d. We were also able to have lunch sitting outside the palace with our now best friends.\u00a0President Denise gave a final farewell speech at the palace and presented President Marie-Eva with a thank you card, a donation for the SI Muenster Club\u2019s charities, and a promise that we would all stay in contact and have another exchange visit very soon.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors returned to Luton airport quite exhausted after such an action-packed weekend \u2013 what fabulous hospitality \u2013 what a joy to have such a marvellous Friendship Link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Soroptimist International Muenster extended the hand of friendship to 18 visitors from SI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[134,130,14,113,128,132,131,129,73,135,12,60,11,133,13],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-barbata-romme","tag-beatriz-chadour-sampson","tag-club","tag-denise-powell","tag-friendship","tag-jack-slatter","tag-jane-slatter","tag-marie-eva-tumbrink","tag-muenster","tag-sabine-schiller-lerg","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-sylvia-vornhecke","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marvellous Friendship Link Visit to Muenster | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Marvellous Friendship Link Visit to Muenster : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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