That's a real busker's story DBW! I used to leave Cologne in my old Opel Rekord without the petrol money (let alone ferry ticket) to get to the coast. I would do a couple of evening pitches in Aachen on the way. It was a lovely place to busk back then. Then I would sleep in the car and busk in Rotterdam for a day or two. Street shows rarely took off there, so it was mainly terraces in the afternoon and then the pubs of the Oude Binnenweg in the evenings. You would meet all the Feyenoord fans and they would swap football stories. Then at around midnight, you could get a cheap night ferry back to the UK from Hook of Holland. Sometimes you could even pick up a hitch hiker on then way, and there was enough loot in your pocket to treat them to a bun and a cup of coffee. Kings of the world in those days...