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Altlandsberg
On Saturday, we drove south east to Altlandsberg which is just outside of Berlin. The concert was an outdoor event organised by the main church in the town. The church was built originally in 1450. It has been modernised recently and now has underfloor heating and chairs and a stage that can be moved outside
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Bad Doberan Klostergarten
Friday nights show was in the concert hall of the Klostergarten in Bad Doberan which is on the north coast of Germany just 10 minutes drive from the Baltic. A monastery was founded here in the 12th century followed by an abbey church in the 13th century. The church is huge and has undergone many
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Komm du KulturCafé
Thursday nights show was at a small cafe in the south of Hamberg. The Komm du Kulturcafé. The cafe is a nice cosy meeting place for people to get information on music, theatre and the arts in Hamburg. Ray has played in Hamburg over 30 times, that’s as many times as The Beatles! With Oysterband,
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Hamburg, and a day off with tiny trains
Ray has a show in Hamburg on Thursday evening and so we took the opportunity to go there a day early. We had been invited to view Miniatur Wunderland by Hauke, a friend of Ray, a long-standing Oysterband fan and, for the last 4 years, a modeller and guide at the exhibition. It was too
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En Vacker Vän – a new song
“En Vacker Vän” is Swedish for A Beautiful Friend. At the end of the concert at the vineyard in Bad Bentheim, the applause and shouts from the audience brought Ray back for a second encore. Someone asked for a Swedish song. This is what happened ….
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Outdoor Concert in a Vineyard
Today we drove west, back the way we came yesterday, and onwards towards the Dutch border and the town of Bad Bentheim. The land is flat until you get to the town where there is a huge block of sandstone on which stands the very imposing Kronenburg Castle. There has been a castle here for
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Dinosaurs and a cellar bar
Barkhausen (where Ray played a house concert last night) is a small village of some 400 inhabitants but it has a UNESCO World Heritage Site where dinosaur tracks were discovered in a quarry which is now abandoned. Instead, it is now an open air museum where people, especially families, visit to see the tracks. Today,
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On the road again
The shows on this trip are around weekends so after a couple of days break we are on the road again. This time it’s a 4 hour drive south to Bad Essen for a house concert. Driving today was a little harder than when we drove north last Sunday. Today there are hundreds if not
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Flensburg
Sunday was a very long drive north west from Salzwedel to Flensburg which is almost at the Danish border. We have a break in the tour here and are staying with Thies, an old friend of Ray. This also gives us a chance to look around. The gig in Flensburg was in the beautiful St.
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Salzwedel, Satemin and Harry’s Farm
For the outdoor concert in the evening in Satemin, we stay two nights in Salzwedel which is 20 minutes south. On the way to Satemin we also visit Harry, an old friend of Ray’s, on his farm. Salzwedel The first picture shows the Hansehof B&B, also known as Bett & Bike. Salzwedel is a typical
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