East of Erfurt: To Germany and Beyond

~PREVIOUS BLOG~        ~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Mainz ~Limburg an der Lahn ~Marburg ~Göttingen ~Herzberg im Harz ~Goslar ~Wernigerode ~Burg (bei Magdeburg) ~Potsdam ~Königs Wusterhausen ~Pirna ~Bad Schandau ~Kolín ~Brno ~Bielsko-Biała ~Żywiec ~Kraków ~Warszawa/Warsaw ~Poznań ~Fürstenwalde ~Erfurt ~Korbach ~Köln/Cologne ~Hasselt ~Leuven (Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium) Thunder. Lightning. Torrential rain. That’s how this story begins. It…

Between the Picos and the Deep Blue Sea (Tales from Iberia pt 3)

~PREVIOUS BLOG~          ~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Santiago de Compostela ~Noia ~Muros ~Fisterra ~A Coruña ~Lugo ~Ribadeo ~Luarca ~Avilés ~Gijon ~Llanes ~Santander ~El Astillero ~Castro Urdiales ~Bilbao/Bilbo ~Bermeo ~Lekeitio ~Zarautz ~Donostia-San Sebastian ~Libourne (France) Welcome back to the final part of my Iberian story! Or just welcome. Bienvenido. Ongi etorri. After a month in…

An Andalucian Adventure (Tales from Iberia pt 1)

~PREVIOUS BLOG~                    ~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Madrid ~Toledo ~Jaén ~Granada ~Almuñécar ~Nerja ~Málaga ~Ronda ~Arcos de la Frontera ~Jérez (de la Frontera) ~Cádiz ~El Puerto de Santa Maria ~Chiclana de la Frontera ~Tarifa ~Utrera ~Dos Hermanas ~Seville/Sevilla ~Huelva So spring came, and with it the resounding call of the south, and warmth. At least, enough…

Mission Statement

~Home~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~ So why am I determined to spread my music around the world, playing whatever I want, wherever I want, singing words that make me feel alive? The obvious – doing something I love, managing to eat and not sleep outside (I’m not counting tents as “outside”), and feeling that it’s generally a nice idea…

The Story So Far, Part 4 of 4 (towns 74-109)

~PREVIOUS BLOG~          ~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Toulouse ~Castres ~Carcassonne ~Narbonne ~Beziers ~Nîmes ~Avignon ~Valence ~Perigueux ~Villeneuve-sur-Lot ~Agen ~Auch Carnon-Plage ~Millau ~Rodez ~Dijon ~Reims ~Lille ~Oliwa ~Jelitkowo (Gdansk) ~Fort William ~Malaig ~Portree ~Hexham ~Barnard Castle ~Robin Hood’s Bay ~Loughborough ~Oxford ~Andover ~Frome ~Ullapool ~Stornoway ~Grimsby ~Lincoln ~Dover ~Moulins + return to Montpellier, Le-Puy-en-Velay, Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges, Aurillac,…

The Story So Far, Part 3 of 4 (towns 54-73)

~PREVIOUS BLOG~          ~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Bursa ~Yalova ~Göreme ~Konya ~Alanya ~Çanakkale ~Kavála ~Himarë ~Kotor ~Dubrovnik ~Berlin ~Arras ~Inverness ~Whitby ~Swindon ~Bordeaux ~Bergerac ~Cahors ~Villefrache-de-Rouergue ~Albi (+ return to İstanbul, Lárissa & Ioánnina) (Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Germany, France, Scotland, England) Return to: İstanbul, Turkey (town no 10) – 3-4 June 2014 After a…

The Story So Far, Part 2 of 4 (towns 28-53)

~PREVIOUS BLOG~          ~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Rome ~Terni ~Orvieto ~Siena ~Florence ~Prato ~Pistoia ~Viareggio ~Genoa ~Savona ~Nice ~Aix-en-Provence ~Arles ~Montpellier ~Mende ~Langogne ~Le-Puy-en-Velay ~Clermont-Ferrand ~Limoges ~Brive-la-Gaillard ~Aurillac ~Lyon ~Chalon-sur-Saône ~Prague ~Bratislava (Italy, France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic) 28. Rome/Roma, Italy, Population: 4,321,000 – 20-21 April 2014 It may have been Easter…

The Story So Far, Part 1 of 4 (towns 1-27)

~NEXT BLOG~ ~Home~Mission Statement~Facebook~Soundcloud~Bandcamp~Youtube ~Edinburgh ~Glasgow ~Brighton ~London ~Chichester ~Coimbra ~San Sebastian ~Sarlat-la-Canéda ~Portsmouth ~İstanbul ~Fethiye ~Marmaris ~Bodrum ~İzmir ~Aydın ~Chíos ~Athens ~Chalkída ~Vólos ~Lárissa ~Ioánnina ~Igoumenítsa ~Bari ~Potenza ~Foggia ~Termoli ~Pescara (Scotland, England, Portugal, Spain, France, Turkey, Greece, Italy) 1. Edinburgh, Scotland, population: 493,000 – since 2011 I don’t remember exactly when my busking story…