Pheeewwwwww, I am back from Frankfurt as well. What a day!
First went to the office, 3 1/2 hours of working (you have to make some money during these weeks
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Then I left the office, direct to the ATM (because in Antwerp I wanted to have some extra cash and what do you think .... dutch bankcards were not accepted and creditcards neither! Hi there it's 2010!!
Into the car again for a 378 kilometers drive to Frankfurt. Left from the Netherlands without sun, about 18 degrees. Arriving in Germany it became better and around Cologne, only around 170 km. to go it was a blue sky and 24 degrees. Time to have the roof down.
I love the German motorways, a big part has no speedlimit. That's the way I like it. Not too much traffic, no need to hurry but still going strong on 150km/hour. These modern hardtop convertibles are really a joy, not too much sound, almost no wind and in case you feel some cold in the neck, turn on the neckheater, very comfortable, but not necessary because temperature was rising up to 25 degrees Celsius.
Arrived around 16.00 at the venue, parking under the venue almost empty. Decided to go to a nice terrace to have some sushi. Turned out to be no sushi between 2.30pm and 8pm but a nice prosecco while checking mail and reading the newspaper online did it.
Around 5.30pm I decided to have a meal, just next to the mainentrance was a nice italian restaurant, sitting in the sun, having a delicious pasta with mushrooms and then the messages came in, where are you?
I found Marky49 and Mark96er waiting for me at the mainentrance. Having a chat, and in we went. No sign of mk.com but the boxoffice did there job very quick. Checking the merchandise and decided to have the signed litho here after the show (my car was just below my feet, so easy to bring it to the car before having an aftershow-drink).
First row, deadcenter. The stage was really high, so Makry49 and I didn''t see MK's guitar till the encores, we only saw the tray in front of the guitars. But sound was excellent, show was real good, another amazing Marbletown (best till now for me), rush to the stage already before the end of TR, sorry I thought MK was ending his solo but after the rush he continued for another 2 minutes or so. Standing at the stage, my nose and eyes were just above it, some idiots (called security) tried to ruin our night and wanted us to go back to our seats, NO WAY!
BIA and SFA and the band went off. I thought noooooooo, not again. Audience were loud, yelling, calling, clapping, and yes the band came back! Piper to the end and that was it.
First went to the merchandise to get my hands on the signed litho, also bought the USB-stick, brought it to my car (forgot where I left it so strolling around the parkinggarage for 10 minutes) and back to the italian restaurant for a drink. Just a coke this time, prefer a nice beer, but had to drive back the same 378 kilometers.
Driving back, no speed-limit and at night less traffic so I decided to drive a little faster
. At 2.30am I was at home, a little food and I can't remember how fast I was asleep. Loved this day!
