European Bonsai Association Goes to Germany

摘要

Like the Olympic games or even the world cup, European bonsai travels around Europe, each year holding its annual congress in a different hosting country. This year it is Germany at the House of Sport in Ratingen hear Diisseldorf. Next year it will beat Ljubljana, Slovenia, the following year France, followed in 2014 by Poland. What an opportunity to see some very beautiful parts of Europe let alone quite amazing bonsai and suiseki. The small town of Ratingen is located in what many would consider apart of the German heavy industrial heartland, incorporating the cities of Duisberg, Essen and Diisseldorf. Today however, this region is now dubbed 'helicon valley' because of its leadership in energy research and e-commerce as well as being a centre of culture and the arts. Ratingen itself is a quiet and neat town in the midst of this area and over a three day period was to act as host to the 28th European Bonsai Association Congress, held in conjunction with the National Bonsai Organization of Germany, Bonsai Club Deutschland and the European Suiseki Association.