Hello all. I'm here in Cologne chez Alanabit and his wife and cute kids. Just about to head off to busk a town he recommended, then will be making pilgrimage to Beethoven's house. Traded some songs, CDs, and travelling tales with Alan and Ina; the rumour I heard that he knows how to write good songs is true.

Germany is very pretty; I could do without the snow, but I love the buildings, and the motion-sensitive escalators are pretty cool too.

I visited the Dachau memorial; in the museum there was "The Dachau Song" written by two prisoners. I copied down the words and the dots, and will post when I get home. There was another girl copying it down at the same time; we didn't have a language in common, but I understood that she was a violinist from Italy. So that was cool.

Thanks Moorhouses!

Marion