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April 17th 2004
No big plans today… just relax and enjoy the
day. The weather was nice, a bit cloudy and the wind was chilly
but we found a place in the sun to have coffee and relax, watching
ordinary Gothenburgians go about their Sunday. Much like anywhere
else really, people walking their dogs and enjoying the Spring,
seagulls swirling in their noisy search for… whatever it is
that seagulls search for!
Monica and I enjoyed strolling around the city, passing those who
were willing to freeze as the price for seeing and being seen and
eventually we found a nice café in the sun where all we had
to tolerate was dreadful 70's Spanish pop music! Don't know where
they found it but it reminded me of how popular "Latin-flavoured"
music is all over the world. I am not sure why, although I suppose
its infectious and generally up-beat rhythms do make you move!!
Being a recent convert to hard Flamenco I find this stuff interesting.
Back to the hotel for a quick siesta and it was time to get together
with the band to fix some musical things and rehearse a "new"
song for tomorrow's show.
Then we went to get fish and chips (I am not kidding), walked into
the Rosa & Crown (I am still not kidding!) and there were "The
Hamburgers"!!! Unbelieveable… all the way from Hamburg,
Oliver, Carsten and Kay. What a great surprise… and the fish
and chips was okay too! We had a few beers, watched a little Spanish
football on Swedish TV and the headed back to our hotels to prepare
for tomorrow. The Hamburgers have been challenged to guess the set
list so I won't include that here until after tomorrow's show!!
Thinking that the excitement was over we settled back in our room
when the phone rang and our driver from Oslo asked us where we were!
Explaining that he was in Gothenburg to pick us up, we informed
him that he was 24 hours early so he drove home and promised to
come back tomorrow… I hope he does!!
Next day...
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