So just after midnight we're off to Luton Airport, heading out to Berlin for the event tantalisingly titled "Summer of Love - a Californian Dream". I'm looking forward to it with two things just giving me a prod in the ribs. 1st - weather. Everyone tells me Berlin is a great city, but the weather today appear to be 5 degrees, and cloudy, with tomorrow being the same. Last week we were in blue skies and 37 degrees in the sun. Wow, what a difference. 2nd is our mode of transport - Easyjet. 20Kg booked in the hold, but my guitar is just about that, so everything else goes in the cabin - or more accurately, it doesn't. 50x40x20cm is not exactly huge, no matter how cleverly Easyjet describe it. If you can use this size, they say, then it's wonderful that you can take it into the cabin, guaranteed. How generous. The only snag is that everything you have then has to be in it - I read the blurb - liquids! trying to find my glasses to read the tiny writing on the toothpaste tube, and as for aerosols - the smallest one I could find was 150ml so in the end, I swapped my guitar strap for a spray can.
Our flight in the morning is at 7am, so we have to be there for 5, and as we don't really live close together, Ian starts in one county, and drives an hour and a half to Dacre, who lives in the middle of nowhere - although he now does have electricity (and a castle down the road).
The venue is the maschinenhalle in der malzfabrik which is a listed building and originally a huge factory. The venue has converted the engine building into a performance space, and it hold many events over the year. It sounds like fun. I really wish that I'd been better at languages - because I still have my schoolboy French, but virtually no German at all. Luckily, every German I meet has excellent English, so hopefully not a problem. We'll let you know how it goes when we get there! Now back to the packing.
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