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Mylene Reiners: Just home from a long weekend (Friday until Monday) Hessen... Beautiful surroundings (still aching muscles, walked to much (60 km. in two days) - and I'm not used to the hills...) As Claudia G. wrote, the concert was absolutely great. I don't know too many listmembers, but I also saw familiar faces - and Heike and Ina I know from Tilburg last year. I thought I would be the only one from the Netherlands, but a couple behind me came from the Netherlands too (expecting to be the only ones :). The venue was nice, the parking not so - I arrived at 16.20 and was not allowed to park until 16.30 - but I was not allowed to wait. Nice when you don't know your way - I drove some 20 kilometers to arrive again at the parking lots - but I found it - and was used to getting lost in that part of Germany. I'm good at driving, and good at reading maps, but not at combining them - and I have a terrific talent of choosing the wrong direction. Luckily when I will get my new car (September) it will have a navigation system (no German CD included - but I'm sure I will buy one, when I have to travel there again...) I walked in the park - the weather was really nice - thinking back on arriving Friday in the pouring rain!! I only had a fleece sweater to put on, forgot a shirt, and that would be much too hot, so before the concert I bought one of the new T-shirts. I liked them. I also bought the Dortmund CD - and listened to that on my way home. I thought CdeB talked a lot less than last year, but I don't mind - I love hearing him sing - that's what I'm visiting concerts for. I told the couple sitting beside me people in Germany are more enthousiastic at concerts than in the Netherlands - but this concert started rather in a Dutch way. Lots of passive audience (including me) - although I loved the songs - and he started with some of my favorites. That made up for missing "When winter comes". Quickly CdeB managed to get us "more active", and I enjoyed the show more and more... The Britney part was long - really nice for those people sitting in the back - the people in the first row didn't see him much - you only saw people turning - and so you could guess where he was. Also nice seeing the people watching the concert from the windows of the Schloss enjoying themselve very much! After the Britney-part some more favorites, than the dancing part, the encores, the Beatles-etc. -medly. Just great!!! Strange - how much I like that last part - it's a pity you go home singing "Hey Jude", in stead of one of the great CdeB originals.... I guess my feeling of a great concert was shared by everyone - even the man himself - otherwise he wouldn't have done the Beatles part. Can't wait to see him again (probably Bochum, Krefeld for sure, and maybe Bonn) - I hope I can arrange things with my work - when I booked the places it seemed sure I would be working in Eindhoven (half an hour driving distance, no traffic jams)- but I'm working in Utrecht now, for half a year (until November) - and I have to get up at 4.30 - and drive one and an half hour - when there are no traffic jams - and most of the time there are :( -- Mylene |
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