London calling .... |
London calling, so what could we do? We couldn't resist the call, packed our bags and respond to that one. We had been there before, actually many times, but never played our music over there. So it was about time to change that. But not only for London, it should be a mini tour and this was our plan: 26-11-04 - England - Sheppard - Doncaster 27-11-04 - England - Greenroom - Redruth 28-11-04 - England - The Underworld - London Till the last days before we would, go we didn't hear anything from Doncaster, so it seemed that that one was cancelled, but still more than enough reasons to go. So we booked our van, packed our stuff and were ready to go. It was early in the morning. Friday November 26 Th, we left about 5 o' clock straight on our way to Calais for crossing some borders and a big water of course. Everything went very well until....... We just crossed the Belgium border and went for some gasoline and filled up our own liquid level (burb), we stepped in the van and were ready to go on the road again.... accept the van seemed to have a mind of its own and took more rest, so with all our girl and man power we pushed the van but there wasn't much life in it. So we were very glad with the ANWB and they helped us very well...at least we had a nice chat, the guy checked our website and in the meantime the Belgium rescue team arrived... they put us on their wagon... with all of us still in it... the Dutch side got almost a heart attack when he heard that we were all on top of the truck in the van... and we were gasping for air as well.... It seemed that we would be needing a new battery, not that they had any...so they just did nothing and wished us good luck and their best advice was ... "guys keep your fingers crossed"... and maybe the van got scared, but we were driving again and obviously missed a boat. |
St George Hotel Finally and after some confusion about where we had to go, we arrived in Amesbury at the George Hotel, very cute and very pitoresque... The fire was burning, the bar was open and life was good again... We wanted to have a good night sleep, but the hotel was a bit old and through the years, gravity had done its job... So they removed some parts of the bed and closet so that everything seemed to be standing straight, it felt like being Alice in Wonderland. All was just not really what it seemed to be. The beds were straightened out that well, that we actually rolled off our beds. |
just say hello... |
Calais Still a bit worried about the battery but the trip went fine and you almost can't get seasick in 75 minutes. But we where very happy when we see the coastline and driving a couple of minutes later on English ground. We took it easy, enjoyed the sights and we just let the landscape crawl by Still, it would be long enough. That evening we would do our first gig in Redruth. And we would meet Manon' s pen pal Roger... but first up: a nice night in |
Stonehenge....... The great and ancient stone circle of Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world. Of course that was one what we couldn't miss |
Stonehenge is not the largest stone circle in the world as we could see. We really expected this one would be bigger |
Through Devon and Dartmoor... Secret Nature of Devon, it keeps his secrets when you're crossing the landscape with 100 km/hr. But still very impressive just as Dartmoor one of the National Parks of England and Wales. It is a beautiful moorland landscape were a wealth of archaeological remains. ... and no time to discover when we were heading to Redruth |
Music lives and is running through the veins of the English people... as we soon found out. Right under the hotel was a karaoke bar, for all the talented people, who were ready to be discovered... So the next morning we still had the beat in our heads, later we got that one quiet after taking an aspirin. |
The Greenroom When we arrived in Redruth it was easier to find the Greenroom than we expected. In the Greenroom we met Greg our sound engineer. We played there with two local bands... but where is the flyer? I really can't find the damn thing for the names of these two bands, so sorry guys.... We had a nice evening, and after our gig we split. |
Only for tonight, Rik, Linda and Manon stayed over at Manon's pen pal; Roger's place and Beer, Margriet, Martin and Karin went to a hotel with the van and all our gear. |
The next morning.. Nice hotel, and after an unforgettable breakfast with some locals, it was time to watch some lovely nature, at the coastline of Cornwall. And let the wind blow through our hair... We picked up Greg and the others at the Green Room (still not as fresh as we were before...).How a city (and people as well of course) can look different in the morning...., |
