Hi,

I had had a really long tiring day in London and was exhausted......... coming home in the underground I had been subjected to the usual stuff as previously mentioned... Stairway to heaven, Blowing in the wind etc ...... well I got off the tube and there at the bottom of the escalators were two pretty beat up looking violinists............... but when they started to play it was magic.... they did Bach's violin concerto in D minor...... brilliant.....

My other favourite busking memory was in Annecy, (a small town in the French Alps..... it is built beside a lake and has the most wonderful old part of the city... really old buildings alongside canals...... sort of like Venice .. only prettier)....... there were two blokes dressed in black cloaks and masks pushing a harpsichord around the cobbled streets on a wagon type thing... every so often they'd stop and play.. some haunting melodies.. while one of them skulked about through the crowd, like a hunchback collecting the money. they were fantastic... really fitted in with the whole ambience of the old town. beautiful place I'd go back there like a shot if I could.

Slainte

alison