Hi all

I was recently in Dusseldorf (germany, near the Dutch border) for the day (a four hour drive for us) to go to a christmas market (what does this have to do whith anything, you ask, well) and we where walking past this pub, where there was music coming out. It was John Denver, one of my all time favorites, so we told my dad and brother to go on, and me and my mum stepped in. And we spent the whole afternoon dancing with strangers, drinking beer or cola or what we wanted, and mind the fact that we speak no german, and when we left, everybody kept pulling us back, to join in again. And everybody was singing a long and having a generally good time. at one moment, Hans (a friend of the family) went to take a picture of mum, but one of the lady's thougt she wasn't smiling enough, so she came up behind and said "smile, you're on candid camera". The played Folk, country, blues and god-knows hwat else, and we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. This kind of event is not dead, it's just rarer and more spontanious. I definatly hadn't planned to drive four hours to sing along and dance to music! But we enjoyed it none the less.

Selene

By the way, I am a vegetarian, and that has nothing to do with my music choice! It's by philosophy, and if there's one thing I loath, it's the taste of saccarine. Thought you all might enjoy this ray of hope!