Carcassonne in Carcassonne - 2024

[Linkarssonne]

Amazing festival like the previous years!
Here some photos : bowling, candy catapult, the fresco, the meeple craft booth, some games, the coins, the news mini wonders set 2

















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[Challa007]

Hi Challa, I just read the rules of the game "Oktoberfest-Munich expansion" I'm going to drink a beer right away

Hahaha … it was so great to meet you yesterday… hope to meet again soon!
today we had a game with Meepledrone and Linksux where we included the Oktoberfest Expansion… and many more emoji code16]


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[Linkarssonne]

Hi Challa, I just read the rules of the game "Oktoberfest-Munich expansion" I'm going to drink a beer right away

Hahaha … it was so great to meet you yesterday… hope to meet again soon!
today we had a game with Meepledrone and Linksux where we included the Oktoberfest Expansion… and many more emoji code16]


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A games with a lot of fan expansions !



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[Challa007]

Thanks for the updates and fun expansion, Challa007!  Hope you're having a great time!

Thanks Ker42, we had/have a wonderful time here enjoying the City and the marvellous company. So much fun!!
We will be back next year!!


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[Challa007]

Basically, the two days of the festival consisted of
1) buying a copy of the new mini „Wonders of Humanity“ during the first minutes of the festival
2) spending the rest of the time participating in various activities in order to collect coins and coasters (Linksux has posted a photo of the coins before).
Bronze coins were obtained for example when you glued a tile on the big frame. A silver coin was obtained when winning at the meeple bowling. Gold coins could only be obtained by playing a game of Carcassonne (or Botanicus etc) at one of several places with game tables.
I got my first gold coin playing level 1 mists over Carcassonne - and the guy desperately wanted to teach me the rules - hahaha (See why this makes me laugh here : https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6261.msg90467#msg90467 )
The coasters were the consolation prices.
The problem was that we only got aware that there were 6 colours of coasters like 30 minutes before the end of day 2 …
All of us only got 3 colours during  the first day (blue, gray and yellow), during  the second day we discovered 2 more colours (red and green) and pink came 30 min before the end… we got the last ones and it was just enough so that we had one each …
3) meeting more people during the day like @oldbonz @smoula or @drmeeple . In the evening, we had dinner for  16 … !!
4) playing Carcassonne games with the others
5) have fun


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[Challa007]

Coasters


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[Snearone]

 @Challa007 I appreciate those reports and the photos @Linkarssonne    Merits given 
Other plans stopped me from going, but for next year I will definitely plan accordingly 

[Willem]

So, I've been at the airport for 2 hours now; only 4 more to go to my flight!
Perfect time to make a little write up!

The lead up...
With the festival being confirmed a while back, and the success from the previous years, it started to gain my interest.
This year im not able to visit Essen, so an alternative Carcassonne trip was still possible.....
When @Meepledrone , @Linkarssonne , @MMike , @Challa007 and more people started to confirm they were going, I couldn't stay behind!

So it was decided. I would travel back to this wonderful city and spend a weekend geeking out over this boardgame we all love!

Friday
The alarm went off at 4:30am, and I was quickly ready to go. Cats fed, Willem showered and in the car on my way to the airport.
MMike and I met up at the airport and made our way to the plane. Chatting along the way about some of the crazy ideas building up.
The flight was fine, and as soon as we got my suitcase, Meepledrone and Linkarssonne were waiting for us at the exit!
Once we got to the car, we faced our first challenge; we brought so much with us all, that we had to play advanced Tetrissonne to get everything in.
But we managed to pack everything in less than 3 hours, so we were good to go!
Once at the bnb in Carcassonne, Challa007 was quick to come by and we all met and were able to catch up.
There was a long session of exchanging gifts, showing cool stuff and enjoying the time together.
Then, finally heading into the city, it was the first time for some to enjoy the wonderful view of this beautiful place!

When we walked passed the tourism office, we saw a little preview!

We could see at least 3 tiles and confirm some shapes!

We had dinner with a group of 12 international fans. People from Spain, Germany, France, UK, all together!
Of course we had to do something to pass the waiting time...


After dinner, we walked through the city, and of course I had to visit a special spot!

The well was the spot at the end of Scott's advent quiz, which I managed to decipher!

Once back at the apartment, we played some games, including Abstractssonne!


More to come!!

[Willem]

Saturday
The big day!
We celebrated the birthday of Mrs Meepledrone, and all went home!

And then we realised there was a little thing going on in the city close to us.
So we went up and were ready for some Carcassonne at 10am sharp!
First stop was the Tourist Office, to get some Wonders!


This helped confirm that there are 4 wonders in this set!
Rules found online, shared with the Discord, and updates to the WICA were ready to go!

Then we split up to maximise our spread.
Linksux went to the championship, Challa went to introduce her friends to the game, and MMike and myself went Meeple bowling!
I turned out to be amazing at it, so a few throws later and we had our first coin, and also a meeple coaster!


We went on to make a new meeple keychain, visit a medieval town and of course we went to the Fill the Frame!
HiG set up a big wooden frame, for people to pick a Ile and glue it together to a massive landscape.
Of course I had to add a special tile...


Nearer the end of the day, we managed to get a set going


Of course I had to take that back to the frame, to make sure they saw the special tile!


The day ended with an ever bigger group meal, including @smoula and Mrs Smoula, who also brought some Czech Carcassonne for the Museum!

We went back to the apartment to play more Carcassonne, u til the early hours!
A winter/summer game, with gingerbread man, some interesting strategies and a strong victory by yours truly 

[Challa007]

Great Writeup so far, thanks Willem.
Now that I am on Tapatalk I can share more photos
Here the map with the activities


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[Challa007]

Meeple Bowling


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[Linkarssonne]

The final frame !
This one will stay in the city and it will be exhibited in the office tourism



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[Matisek]

It looks spectacular.       

It's a shame for me that I couldn't personally attach the tile

Maybe later

[MMike]

It was lovely finally seeing the faces behind lots of the usernames of the forum!
I hope I will get to meet even more, the next year...

Great writeups and photos people, I hope I'll see you again soon +1 merit(s)

[Challa007]

A games with a lot of fan expansions !

Who can spot the beer mugs? ? ? ?