"Love Thai" Festivals, Eschweiler

"Love Thai" Festivals, Eschweiler

I was with some friends at “Love Thai” festival in Eschweiler last Saturday.It was organized open-aired at Driesplatz , Indesstrasse. Nr.20 where I had to drive about half an hour on the highway from Heerlen.It was a lovely sunny day though less warm than last week and the weeks before,yet very pleasant for an outdoor Thai Festival at this time of the year.

Inside the hedged partition on Driesplatz,there were stands surrounded along the edge of the field,mostly selling foods and desserts.There was only a double stand selling some imported Thai decorate goods,It’s Dana’s. She was at my “Thai Pride Cultural Evening” too, last March in Eygelshoven.Well,she is actually almost everywhere. I also met her at Amazing Thailand Bad Homburg last August.

Dana's Decorate Products

Another two double stands, one for Thai traditional massage.That was what I had expected to see.Only what I found a bit pity was the front entrance of the shop not attractive enough to draw attention from the quests .However I noticed that their business was going on constantly that evening.

 

The other was for beverage,all kind of tropical cocktails were espicially outstanding popular beside those boring (weak) coffee and (dull) tea and of course,freshwater, not to mention about Beers.But talking about price of one cocktail, 6 chips charged, 1,40 euro paid for one chip...so one cocktail was in fact 8,40 euro each...exorbitantly expensive indeed ! But it's okay for this occasion.Well, we have to make it okay when we love to have some fun!

Tropical Mai Tai

For the rest,as mentioned earlier,stands for various kinds of Thai food and desserts.

For some dishes you can certainly expect whenever Thai feast is held.Take Papaya salad or our well-known Somtam for example ,that's always accompanied with sticky rice without doubt.

I walked around to survey what they had to offer.There were Thai noodle soup,some dried-,prepared snacks like dried beef jerky, Isaan sausages,sour pork,and some other Isaan dishes,Thai Satay, fishcake for instance.

Apart from these, there were stands for Thai desserts; coconut cream jelly,sweet Thai crepe,sweet black sticky rice,sticky rice with custard and so forth.

variety of sugary treats "Thai Desserts"

Fried Banana

After walked around, friends and I gathered at our table to enjoy those tasty meals and to sip Mai Tai or some other colorful arousing cocktails:Singapore sling,Blue Hawaiian or even “ sex on the beach” were also available.
 

As they say “ provision in season makes a rich house” ,we therefore bought not only some dried-,prepared snacks but also some Thai sweets back home to make sure we would have something Thai to eat the days after tomorrow.

Variety of Thai Desserts packed in boxes 

 

Thai Little Pancake ( or Poffertjes in Dutch)

The festival started at 2pm on Saturday,ended at 11pm.And on Sunday from 11am to 8pm.Moreover,there were shows on stage both days.Thai traditional dances and live music were absolutely indispensible.Last but not least,later in the evening there were cabaret performances.That´s the bonus and extravaganza talent of our Thai ladyboys !

 

Annual Meeting Thai Women in Germany 2013

Annual Meeting2013 Heidelberg 

It was already a week now that I came back from joining annual meeting with Thai Women Groups in Germany. To be honest, I just have time to sit down and am trying to resume what I have done during my stay with my country fellows,those lovely people, at the same time to gather all pictures i have made over there, to put them here to share with everyone.

Well,again this year I was invited to join the annual meeting with Thara e.V   http://www.tharaverein.de/  It was hosted and held in Heidelberg during 13-15 sept.2013 And i was there on behalf of Thai Pride Association,a representative of Thai Community South Limburg of The Netherlands.

We, Thai women groups in Europe have been collaborating ,exchanging ideas and supporting one another already longer than a decade.After those years of connecting,the relationship has become tighter and it goes without saying that after one meeting we’ll plan and be ready to join the next automatically and definitely,with pleasure.

Khun Dachanee Pfitzner,present Chairwoman of THARA e.V Germany and a very good friend of mine, had invited me to come few days prior to the meeting.But due to my tight schedule concerning my work in The Netherlands, I couldn’t make it earlier than 12 sept. I left The Netherlands in the afternoon by car and arrived in Mannheim in about 3 hours.

Some few hours after my arrival,other closed friends from Italy and Switzerland arrived.When met,we all forgot about jetlag or any fatigue from our long-hour-journey.Instead,we had much to talk about and to tell one another,so much that we would really love to extend the night as long as possible before we felt in sleep.

13Sept.2013
We were late to bed the night before though we managed to get up early,to have good breakfast and to follow program of the day as scheduled.We went to meet other participants at the square in center of Heidelberg town then made good walk up to top of Heidelberg Schloss the whole morning and took boat trip along Neckar river in the afternoon. A huge room in the boat was reserved for our group so that we could hold group discussion on Mental health with Thai Authorities during the float.

Waiting !

Start the promenade !

It was really a good walk!

Due to a great number of Thai people in Germany as well as problems they have been through for years,Thai government have been trying to cooperate with local authorities from both sides;Thailand and Gemany, to identify some outstanding problems which must be first sloved.One of those outcomes is "Mental Health" 

I will not define any detail of the problem and subject here,but i would like to add that several seminars concerned had been hosted in association with Ministry of Mental Health Thailand, to provide workshops and advices to assist those local Thais in Germany.

Seminar in Neumünster Germany Part1
Seminar in Neumünster Germany Part 2

14 sept.2013

Topic on Mental Health was picked to talk about and discussed again the next morning after useful information on "Two Nationalities"and "Aliens Visa". Additional information on "Residence Permit" ,"legal help" and "Neutralization" are also provided and informed by both Thai and Geman officers.

Participants were listening attentively 

Checking up doc.concerning "Two Nationalities"

 

Later in the afternoon, time for election.Finally,after those serious subjects, all participants enjoyed diner BBQ and splendid entertainment all night long.

 

La la la la hoo...hoola hoola hoola....

15Sept.2013

Another day another fun.On the last day,we had "Debate Competition". That was most fun.I was pro-team leader.We laughed a lot and out loud.That's the most important.Finally we just decided not to vote for any winner.Just simply made it another way of tighten our good relationship and collaboration.

We went back home with great feeling and longing of seeing one another again in the next meeting.

Debate Competition

Checking hand,made good friend !

Yeah !!!!

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