BLUR IN ENGLAND

WHAT WE DID IN ENGLAND WHILE WE WAITED.

It was all a bit of a blur!
It was packed with old and dear friends (as well as some cheap old ones John says) and family as well as all that essential business and administrative stuff and swine flu jabs.
The camera didn’t catch up with us and neither did we!
If you aren’t represented here it may be that you weren’t blurred enough snapshots being what they often are.

NO MUSIC

It is intensely tragic and I do mean it! We have heard almost no traditional or local music on our travels. Campsites occasionally play supermarket American pop trash in the conveniences. Crap music for those crap times? Local radio stations seem pretty westernised – largely boring young people squeaking noisily and bullying each other just like home. Ugh! There are folk and world concerts but they are occasional and expensive. You do get traditional and folk music in museums and at traditional events like jousting at and spitting tourists. We didn’t hear music anywhere as a naturally occurring spontaneous expression of a real culture. (Apart from the Accordionist in Liechenstein.) We have watched aand listened to Slovenian music while we have been here but there has been no musical evenings to beat The Carps singing led by D and S or the Bedford Folk Club or the North Crawley carol singing - thanks J and M! So here are Slovenian school kids performing for us.