For quite a while the SPRING IN BERLIN is one of the big HRC Pin Collectors events here in Europe. But SPRING IN BERLIN 2003 was the best of it all. It was a perfect event thanks to GM Christian and his great staff at HRC Berlin - and thanks to Thomas Hass who organized the event together with the HRC.
A lot of collectors from all over Europe and as far as the US and China people came to HRC Berlin for the event. We had a great time in a very relaxed trading atmosphere. The HRC made us feel really welcome (thanks Christian) and we had a nice auction and a nice raffle and made some money for charity. Like in 2002 I was the auctioneer of the event again and tried hard to do the auction bilingual in german and english. We had some great bidding wars over some auction items - and a lot of money came together for charity.
But the best part of the day was yet to come: The 11th Anniversary Party of HRC Berlin - on the same night. A lot of collectors were at the party together with some locals who turned out to be real party people. There was a great live band, a fantastic and delicious birthday cake - and of course the staff late at night did the YMCA with GM Christian dancing right in front. We all had blast. Thank you HRC Berlin for making it much better than last year - we all will be back for sure for SPRING IN BERLIN 2004.
