Things really nice
Goodness me, the last lj entry I have written was in May? You all must think me dead ...
Well, I am not, really ;-)
Coming to think of it, I feel pretty much alive :-).
But the last two days were so nice, that I thought I might share the fun :-)
As it happens; it was 11 year ago to the very day, that I met bimo for the first time; strangely enough not here in Germany, but in a during a University Trip to Portsmouth and London, while walking to an obsure museum (I could really not telly you what it showed but it was in Portsmouth alright … ) .
This picture shows some of us eleven years back; including bimo on the left and our university teacher, Ms von Schoff, second on the right, visiting the naval dockyards in P.
Nostalgic, aint it? ;-)
But considering that 11 years is quite an amount of time, it is a really warm and pleasant thought to know that the two of us still actually quite like each other. (This is, at least, what I severely hope ;-)) )
We usually do something or the other in remembrance of this day, but this weekend we planned something really out of the ordinary: Yesterday evening we went to Essen in order to see Mr. B.B. King on his final farewell tour. And it was a concert to remember. A really hypnotizing mix of Blues, Jazz and Rock' Roll; and an incredibly energetic B.B. who sadly does his very lat tour through Germany at the moment (last chance to see: Tomorrow in Munich). With him, and his fantastic band, a style of music will disappear from the stage which, with out any exaggeration, can be called the most exiting urban blues ever played.
Today continued less exiting, but still perfectly beautiful, because we took a stroll through a market down by the Duisburg harbour; and all this in perfectly sunny weather and enjoyable 26 degrees of warmth. (the kind of weather that we expected, but did not get through the whole of August: I do feel cheated ;-) )
The weather made it possible that I, while bimo has gone off for home, could do the preparations for the lessons tomorrow out in the park under a tree in the sunshine :-) (as well as read some pages of Bill Bryson's "Life and Times of the Thunderbolt kid", which is quire enjoyable.
One question remains: Does all this justify to break four months of silence? Well, you have to begin somewhere, don't you ;-)). I promise to be around at least once a month from now on.
Oh, and one P.S.: The two of us will be at Stratford around Oct 1, and maybe we will also be in London for a day (if anybody fancies meeting the two of us, crazy as we are ;-) )
Frank
Well, I am not, really ;-)
Coming to think of it, I feel pretty much alive :-).
But the last two days were so nice, that I thought I might share the fun :-)
As it happens; it was 11 year ago to the very day, that I met bimo for the first time; strangely enough not here in Germany, but in a during a University Trip to Portsmouth and London, while walking to an obsure museum (I could really not telly you what it showed but it was in Portsmouth alright … ) .
This picture shows some of us eleven years back; including bimo on the left and our university teacher, Ms von Schoff, second on the right, visiting the naval dockyards in P.
Nostalgic, aint it? ;-)
But considering that 11 years is quite an amount of time, it is a really warm and pleasant thought to know that the two of us still actually quite like each other. (This is, at least, what I severely hope ;-)) )
We usually do something or the other in remembrance of this day, but this weekend we planned something really out of the ordinary: Yesterday evening we went to Essen in order to see Mr. B.B. King on his final farewell tour. And it was a concert to remember. A really hypnotizing mix of Blues, Jazz and Rock' Roll; and an incredibly energetic B.B. who sadly does his very lat tour through Germany at the moment (last chance to see: Tomorrow in Munich). With him, and his fantastic band, a style of music will disappear from the stage which, with out any exaggeration, can be called the most exiting urban blues ever played.
Today continued less exiting, but still perfectly beautiful, because we took a stroll through a market down by the Duisburg harbour; and all this in perfectly sunny weather and enjoyable 26 degrees of warmth. (the kind of weather that we expected, but did not get through the whole of August: I do feel cheated ;-) )
The weather made it possible that I, while bimo has gone off for home, could do the preparations for the lessons tomorrow out in the park under a tree in the sunshine :-) (as well as read some pages of Bill Bryson's "Life and Times of the Thunderbolt kid", which is quire enjoyable.
One question remains: Does all this justify to break four months of silence? Well, you have to begin somewhere, don't you ;-)). I promise to be around at least once a month from now on.
Oh, and one P.S.: The two of us will be at Stratford around Oct 1, and maybe we will also be in London for a day (if anybody fancies meeting the two of us, crazy as we are ;-) )
Frank