Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel

Subject: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 13 Mar 07 - 06:25 PM

See here for the previous thread on this topic.

What we have:

Date: 4 - 6 May, 2007

Place: Kiel, Germany (main events at Hof Akkerboom, Kiel-Mettenhof, Stockholmstr 159)

A temporary list of participants with arrival / departure time and residence while in Kiel will be posted shortly.

I'm still waiting for confirmation that they have room, but there is a guest house between my place and Akkerboom that lets individual beds at c. 30 euros, or an apartment for four (two double rooms) for 85 euros altogether. No breakfast, as far as I know. PM me anyone who is interested (Ernest???).

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 02:19 AM

PM sent...

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 03:49 PM

Possible Participants so far
(with arr mode & time, place of stay, dep time):

Susanne - living in Kiel
Andy - train Fri 15:36, Susanne's, Mon 12:38
Wilfried - same
Chas - boat Fri 9:00, car park at Susanne's, Mon 19:30
Doug (road Fri late afternoon, tent in Akkerboom appleyard, Mon lunchtime)
Letty (plus 1 or 2 parents) - ???, ???, ???
Ernest - ???, b&b, ???
Wolfgang - ???, ???, ???
??? Giok - car ???, mobile home, ???
??? Kate
??? Eric
??? Noreen
??? Henrik W.
??? Greg with trombonist from Lauenburg
??? Alan
??? Geordie-Porgie
??? Bente
??? Bron
??? Skarpi

Post updates on individuals here or send me a PM. I'll keep track and post an amended version every so often.

Still waiting for Richard, Bill, Liz and others to turn up and declare themselves ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 03:56 PM

Not me I'm afraid: that's exam week which will seriously impinge on travel arrangments. I'm also broke. Sorry. I had hoped to get.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 03:58 PM

What a shame! Anyway, best of luck for your exams, Kate, and see you again some other time.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 04:06 PM

Susanne, Skarpi told me at Portaferry that he won't make it to the EuroGathering.
Greg (Skipjack) said at Portaferry that he will come.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Letty
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 04:55 PM

Susanne: My parents and I will arrive sometime on Friday, and will stay in a holiday home in Wisch near Schönberg. We're turning it into a week's holiday, with dogs and all. So not to worry about accommodation for us!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 15 Mar 07 - 05:52 AM

It's okay Suzanne, I'm setting and invigilating the exams, not taking them! I hope you all have a wonderful time.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Mar 07 - 04:24 PM

Kate, if you are setting them, why don't you set them up in Kiel?
Any student that refuses to go there will automatically fail ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 05:37 AM

Okay, I have risked reserving an apartment for 4 - 7 May at a guesthouse round the corner (no breakfast, two two-bed rooms, the whole at 85 Eur/night, regardless of number of occupants).

If not enough Mudcatters take up the offer, there is an alternative of individual accommodation at 30 Eur/night.

(Which means even three of you would be paying less in the apartment.)

Please PM me (or eMail me at: skw at worldmusic dot de) WITHIN DAYS if you would like to take up one of these offers as I have to tell them soon.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Noreen at work
Date: 17 Mar 07 - 08:45 AM

Hi Susanne, very sorry but Stewart and I are no longer able to come to Kiel and party with all you Eurogatherers.

I will follow the threads with great interest.

Have fun!

N

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 05:06 PM

What a pity, Noreen! I'd hoped to see you again, and also we'll need all the female singers we can get to hold our own ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 12:53 PM

I'll come.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Brendy
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 11:49 PM

I'll be there 6 weeks later...; gigging at Kieler Woche.

Have a good one.

B.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 11:19 AM

Brendy, where is your gig? Let me know, and I'll try to turn up.

May I remind everybody I have reserved two double rooms in a self-contained flat. So far, Ernest and Alan are interested, while Chas would prefer a single room. This would mean I'll cancel the flat as it would be more expensive for two than a single room. Not sure how many rooms they've got altogehter, though. Any more interested parties, please PM me.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: skarpi
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:29 AM

DAmmmm , I wish I could make it ..............
Have fun ....
All the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Brendy
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:05 PM

Hi Susanne.

Myself and 3 other lads from the circuit here are playing at the Strongbow Marquee the the Rathausplatz. I'll probably be playing solo during the afternoons, and then joining the lads for the gigs later in the evenings.

I was there last year as well.

Hope to see you at some stage during the week.

B.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 04:49 PM

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make it for the weekend--will confirm shortly.

Can anyone advise on the cost of transporting instruments on flights? Both Aer Lingus and Ryanair upped the price of luggage last week (Dublin airport). On a radio programme discussing this several people phoned in saying they were charged extra for instruments, though they had not been notified of extra charges beforehand. The charges were more than the price of the flight.

I'll try to find out from the airlines but may just travel without instruments.

Looking forward to this...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 11:02 PM

Flight booked, will be arriving on Friday (leider ohne Instrumente--hoffentlich kann ich, wenn noetig, was ausleihen)!

Bis bald ! Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 05:58 PM

Haven't got round to compiling a new list of those taking part (where is Andy when you need him?).

We were struck by quite a misfortune last Friday night when Hof Akkerboom's "art barn", a barn used for exhibitions and small events, burned down for the second time in five years. We're all feeling a bit downcast, especially as arson cannot be ruled out. (It was definitely arson in 2002.) Thankfully, the main house and the other barn were successfully protected by the fire brigade.

Despite that, I'm looking forward to the gathering and have suggested to Greg that we should try and distribute the sheet music for the dances you are planning to play to all, including the German participants. Likelihood is they'll know many of them in one form or another.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 22 Apr 07 - 04:45 AM

>> where is Andy when you need him?

working overtime ...


Less than 2 weeks now - nearly there!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 22 Apr 07 - 05:29 AM

It gets closer and closer doesn't it. Nail biting stuff.

Susanne, we need some directions as to where you are in kiel from the ferry terminal or Airport. then we can find you on the map

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: skarpi
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 02:33 AM

hallo again , I will be in Holland 13 to 23 of May and I have to fly from Iceland , so its not possible for me to go first to
Germany and then to Holland .


Sorry,

All the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 Apr 07 - 05:35 PM

8 days ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 01:47 AM

7 days....

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 03:02 AM

... and still 308 days to go till I get my pension.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 07:17 AM

...at least you will get a pension, Wilfried. So you `re better off than the following generations... ;0)
Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 07:03 PM

Houston, we have a problem ... I heard from Greg yesterday that the poor lad has broken his ankle and will be unable to attend the Mudgathering. Sad for him, sad for us, but I hope it'll heal without further complications and give him a few weeks of much needed (even if ill affordable) rest.

Today (yesterday, actually) having been my last working day for two weeks, I'll get round to doing a list this weekend, and also put together some directions to send to those coming to Kiel.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 27 Apr 07 - 07:56 PM

Thanks Susanne. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 12:04 PM

So we loose another one of the EuroGatherer Hardcore team - we are down to two hardcore team members: Wolfgang and me ...

6 days ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:34 PM

So, who have we got?

myself
Letty and parents, making their own arrangements.
Andy and Wilfried, staying with me.
Wolfgang, staying in rented accommodation.
Chas, Alan, Don, Ernest, same
Doug, tenting (?)

makes 12

What about
Henrik W.
Bente
Giok
Liz the Squeak
who have all indicated an interest in coming along but have said nothing further so far.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 03:11 AM

Sorry Suzanne, won't be there I'm afraid. Real life rears it's ugly head, and I must do other things.
Have fun though!
Giok

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 04:01 AM

Liz told me in February at Portaferry that she + Manitas + Limpit won't come to Kiel.

Bente said (same time/location) that she plans to come but doesn't yet know for sure.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:07 PM

Anyone know how we find this place,

Hof Akkerboom, Kiel-Mettenhof, Stockholmstr 159

once we have arrived in Kiel??

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:23 PM

Hello all, I hope you have a wonderful time. Thought I'd pop in to tell Andy et al that Feckin' Irish Whiskey are sponsoring us to drive to Mongolia this July:
http://feckinirishrovers.googlepages.com/

(Finally, I get to spam my trip in the music section!!)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:43 PM

I tried making a direct link to the relevant bit of Multi-Map but when I tested it, it resulted in somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

If you click on this link Multi-Map and enter Stockholmstrasse 159 as the road and Kiel-Mettenhof as the town, that sould show you whereabouts Hof Akerboom is.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:45 PM

Ah think I've cracked it. With the help of Maparama.com and a hard study of the street names on the map.

17 minutes from the ferry terminal (at 18km p.h. !!)

Hafenstrasse for 70m
Swing right in Fabrikstrasse 210m
Swing left into Andreas-Gayk-Strasse 150m
Swing right into Ziegeltiech for 3km (Strange names they have here)
Then Kronshagener Weg for 130m
Continue into Skandinaviendamm for 3km.
Swing right into Stockholmstrasse 310m.

Roughly 6km.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:51 AM

I'm packed up and ready to go. I have to spend the day in work first but then it's straight to the ferry.

See you all tomorrow.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 03 May 07 - 03:01 AM

Chas, I've sent you directions which lead you roughly the same way. Trouble with your directions is, you're not allowed to turn right at the top of Hafenstrasse or Fabrikstrasse.

Turn left from the ferry terminal, drive along Kaistrasse for roughly 200 m, turn right at the lights into Stresemannplatz, drive straight on along Ziegelteich. From there, your directions are ok.

However, I'd think it more sensible to collect at my place as the rooms I've reserved are round the corner from there. So it is:
up Ziegelteich as above, then turn left at the next major lights, towards the motorway.
Another mile or so, and turn right at the lights just before you actually enter the motorway.
Turn left at the next lights, drive straight on across TWO level crossings.
After the second, turn left at the lights, which will take you to a bridge across the motorway.
Turn right into the next street. The huge block of flats at the bottom is Kolonnenweg no 1. Ring bell at Kalweit. If no one opens, please wait. I may be out collecting more Mudcatters.

BTW, I learned last night we'll have to find something else to do on Friday night: Dick Gaughan has cancelled his German tour at short notice, for reasons as yet unknown. Very disappointing, of course, but I'm sure Mudcatters will rise above that. Looking forward to you all!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Letty
Date: 03 May 07 - 11:47 AM

Hi all,
This morning, my father had a heart attack. He had angioplasty this afternoon and is doing reasonably well, but it means we had to call off the Ferienwohnung and won't be coming.
So sorry to miss it: it would have been our first holiday in months.
Have fun, people.

Best,
Letty

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:35 PM

Letty, that's very sad!

All the best for your father (and your mother and yourself).

You will be missed in Kiel!


To the rest: looking forward to meet you tomorrow!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:56 PM

Same here...

Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 May 07 - 06:01 AM

Letty, all the best to your father from all Mudcatters gathered here (at the moment these are Chas and myself). We hope to see you and your parents at some later date. For the moment, all we can do is send our best wishes!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 04 May 07 - 06:09 AM

Letty, sad to hear about your father, best wishes for a complete recovery.

I'll be in Kiel close to 6 pm today. Looking forward to see you all.

Giok, who do I give now the money from me and Jim McLean for the European Friends of Mudcat, when you are not coming?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:26 PM

Now, the first evening is well underway. We had dinner at the side of the Baltic sea. Fidjit and I had boys' willies with our porc meat. Boys willies they are called in (Suebian) German not for what they taste like (I couldn't tell BTW) but how they look like. They have just the size and the form of boys' willies and are made half of noodle and half of potato dough. The German (Suebian) name is Buabespitzle which I have translated above, but in high German they are know as Schupfnudeln which has no interesting translation.

Wolfgang (using Susanne's Mudcat access)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:41 PM

Can confirm Friday went very well. The only thing lacking was music. Chas was the first to arrive at 9.30. Took him for a short tour of Kiel, plus a purchase of guitar strings, before we collected Andy and Wilfried from the station. Doug phoned at 5.30, from outside my front door, because he'd left home before I revealed my second name and thus didn't know which of the 64 doorbells to ring. Then Don rang to say he'd reached the station after a delay of plane and train. When I went out to collect him I ran into Wolfgang who'd taken the bus out to my house.

When they'd all been installed at the holiday flat they're staying at we went out to have the prolonged meal Wolfgang mentioned. Now it looks as though several Mudgatherers are ready for their beds. Watch this space!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:50 PM

Back from a great day out on the water and a great ceilidh night. Pictures will be up soon, Don and Andy have promised.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: bfdk
Date: 06 May 07 - 04:56 AM

Glad to hear you're having a good time :-) I just finished the 5th of the assignments that kept me from going, so I can now enjoy the rest of the weekend. But, I suppose it's too late to go by now..

Looking forward to the piccies!

Best wishes to everybody,

Bente

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:05 AM

Bente, if you're here by 2 pm you'll catch the start of the session, and we expect it to go on for a couple of hours at least. Some people won't be leaving till tomorrow morning. Phone us on the mobile number I gave above if you think it's possible.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:14 AM

Doug Chadwick here, form Susanne's computer.

Superb day yesterday - a ferry trip through the mist which gave way to glorious sunshine. An inpromtu session on the baoat was appreciated by some, but perhaps not by all of the other passengers.

Last night Chas, Don and I formed part of a 15 piece ceilidh band which included two hurdy-gurdies.

More later.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:19 AM

Bente, to save you looking in vain for "the mobile number I gave above" (but didn't), here it is: 0171 and 9836467. We're off to a tour of the town now, and to seeing off Wolfgang who unfortunately has to leave at lunchtime. (BTW, he fell asleep on the boat, so he was wide awake during the evening ceilidh!)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: bfdk
Date: 06 May 07 - 06:05 AM

Sorry, but can't make it there by 2PM, I'm afraid. It's already midday here.. Pity I missed the ceilidh.

But have fun all of you :-)

Just as well it wasn't Andy who fell asleep on the boat, he'd have been one heck of a load to carry off there :o))

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 06 May 07 - 10:11 AM

...back in Berlin...

hope you are all well and have a mighty session!

Thanks to all, but especially Susanne for organizing everything perfectly!

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 07 - 06:48 AM

Saturday night was just great with a folk Bigband. Ich war so richtig kandidel, aber hoffentlich noch nicht überkandidelt. Some of the instruments looked really unique. Yes, and like Ernest I want to thank Susanne for the perfect organisation.

kandidel, norddt. (veralt.) fröhlich, heiter (in my five year old Duden)
kandidel, north German (obs.) merry

In my Brockhaus of 1935, they only have the spellings kanddel and kanditel but they have also the reflexive verb sich kandideln, sich betrinken (to get drunk).

I have found nothing yet about the etymology.

From a short web search it looks as if the word means "heiter" more in the sense of "angeheitert" that is merry in the sense of tipsy.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 07 May 07 - 07:29 AM

For those of you who were not there and therefore don`t fully understand Wolfgangs posting:

Among the german musicians where 3 (the Lorenzens and R. Schwarz, hope I didn`t overlook someone?) playing in a band named "hans dans" whose cd is named "folksdans & kandidel".

Here`s their website, where you can hear something:

http://www.hansdans.de/

BTW Rainer Schwarz had played with Fidjit yeeeeaaaaars ago, if I got that right.

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 07 May 07 - 09:00 AM

Plus, Don found that he met Bernd Unstedt, one of our foremost Kiel players of Irish music, in Dublin way back in 1983. Fidjit also plays in a Swedish spelemanslag (?) with the well-known player of the Nyckelharpa , Alban Faust, who not only is a German living in Sweden but has done concerts at Hof Akkerboom twice (and we hope to have him back some time).

Wilfried and Andreas are on their way home, Fidjit is exploring the region's golf courses before he catches the boat back home tonight, and I'm left to clear up and get on with the rest of my life. (NOT catch up on sleep, because this gathering was very well-behaved, with bedtime usually round about midnight.)

You were great, boys, all of you! (Sorry to say I was the 'token sheila' on the Mudcat side, due to Letty's misfortune. I hope her father is a little better by now.)

Now - who is going to host the 2008 Eurogathering? :-)))))

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 07 - 11:13 AM

correction: "sich kandelen" is "to get drunk".

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 May 07 - 03:15 PM

Made it safely home.
Was a superb weekend.
Can't post more right now, there is a problem at work ...

More (hopefully) tomorrow.

Andy/MudGuard

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 May 07 - 05:18 AM

I shouldn't forget to say Thank you to the people at Hof Akkerboom, who let us have the run of the house, and particularly Volker Schroeren, melodeon player and perfect barman on the Saturday night, who was virtually the only one to turn up again for the tiny Sunday session.

Also, a thanks to the participants who collected 170 euros for Mudcat among them. They're on their way to Bill Sables via Grimsby in Doug's pocket.

Now I'll go and pack for next weekend's festival.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:21 AM

Here is half of the great Ceilidh band

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:44 AM

and here are the other half. We three, "Gulliver" Don And Doug - the Mug - Chadwick, plus yours truly made up the last percentage. 110% this celidh band was !

We were rightly proud to be in such company.

Greg, we missed you and yet we didn't. Hope your ancle is getting better.

We'd sorted out a few tunes for some of the dances I was to teach in the back kitchen. Hoping we'd manage ok in no other musicians turned up. We needn't have worried. When you have bands like these behind you. Well instant success.

Erhard sorted out the German dances for the very eager crowd of dancers. They got up for everything. I even learnt two to take with me to the next meeting I have with the Swedish dancers I play with.

I really enjoyed my visit to Kiel and will surely be back. Hof Akkerboom is a great place.

I was a nice surprise to meet up with Rainer Schwarz again after 30 years. He even was encouraged me to sing "The German Clock Winder". To a crowd of Germans. Well ! Never thought I'd do that. Went down well though.

Susanne. You did us proud with your hospitality. All the sight seeing, Fjord trips and the eating places we visited were the best.

Don and Doug - "the Mug". Thanks for the sessions. Good one in the garden in the sunshine on Sunday. And to all the other mudcatters that were there. Hope we meet again.

Cheers - prost etc.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:46 AM

Arrived back safely, a couple of hours ago. A relaxing night crossing on the ferry was most welcome after a 600km drive through heavy rain and spray on the autobahn. I was glad I wasn't going the other way as a bad accident was causing a tail-back that seemed to go on forever.

I really enjoyed playing at the ceilidh. The German and Danish tunes were much easier to pick up than Irish tunes and I was able to join in most of them. Unfortunately, my poor memory and a long drive home means that I can't remember many of them now.

Susanne had organised perfect weather for the rest of the weekend and Sunday afternoon was spent by a select group singing and playing, under the shade of a tree, outside the thatched building of Hof Akerboom.

I was hoping you would forget about the collection, Susanne. I was just working out what musical bits and pieces I could get for 170 euros.

Thanks Susanne for organising such an enjoyable weekend. It was good to meet you, MudGuard, Wolfgand and Wilfried again and also to put faces to the names for Ernest, Fidjit and Gulliver.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 May 07 - 01:23 PM

Hows the "Mug", Doug?

To jog your memory you can listen to some of them on the, Hansdans.de website. They have short versions of some of what they/we did.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 May 07 - 06:50 PM

Glad you're all safely back where you belong (until next time). And a little proud Kiel Eurogathering went as well as it did. Just one amendment to Fidjit's praises: Erhard was the one leading the singing. It was Hinrich from Hamburg who called the German dances (as he does regularly for us). BTW, he has his own very similar venue at home, the Heidbarghof.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:06 AM

And I'm back, too, and sitting at my office PC. Naturally I opened the Mudcat first, looking for the Eurogathering. Glad that you all enjoyed the jolly gathering, and so did I.

Thanks to all for coming, singing and playing. It reerected me again for a year - without music the soul withers.

My special thanks go to Susanne for the splendid organization, bed and breakfast.

Still 296 days to go till retirement.

Sing and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:52 PM

The Mug arrived safely home, Chas, and already been out to good use, though for cider rather than beer.

However, if you remember my tale of disaster with my brand new coffee pot on the journey to Kiel, well my wife bought a replacement this evening and hadn't been in the house more than 10 minutes when the bag of shopping fell off the kitchen unit. I will now have to buy yet a third pot or else stick to drinking tea.

I'll give the HansDans website a coat of looking when I get a few spare moments.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 10 May 07 - 03:04 AM

Poor potless Doug - how will the third coffee pot be demolished? Make your own unbreakable pot scoutwise: take a piece of bamboo holding about a half pint, put on a leather sling,and it will serve for all drinkable matters hot or cold (except for beer which can be drank out of bottle or can in the field).
I still keep my bamboo pot I made as a young scout some 50 years ago.

Drink, sing, and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 10 May 07 - 04:59 AM

Doug

The donation money we gave you was for Mudcat. Not a new coffee pot !

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 May 07 - 05:16 AM

Not that the coffee pot is in them (though the beer / cider mug is!), but I'm looking forward to the pictures.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 May 07 - 07:32 AM

I'll try to find time tonight for the pictures ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 11 May 07 - 01:29 PM

Also, a thanks to the participants who collected 170 euros for Mudcat among them. They're on their way to Bill Sables via Grimsby in Doug's pocket.


A cheque for 115 pounds is in the post, on its way to Bill.


DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 May 07 - 06:11 PM

my pictures of the event

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 12 May 07 - 05:38 AM

Well done Anders. Great pictures. What a ceilidh band !

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 12 May 07 - 07:11 AM

Hi folks,

arrived home a little later than anticipated. Thanks to Susanne and all for a great weekend. I'll get the photos (all 100 of them!) off ASAP, though in a bit of a rush as I'm tied up with gigs this weekend.

Take care, Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ron Davies
Date: 12 May 07 - 08:21 AM

Sounds like a delightful gathering. I'd considered trying to join you this year but the choral schedule vetoed it--we did our last big concert on the same weekend. I remember visiting Kiel a few eons ago--great fun. Also listened to some of the MP3's on one of the links you provided. Man, I am way out of practice--have no chance with anything but Hochdeutsch--and I'd need some of the songs translated--not into English, but Hochdeutsch.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 12 May 07 - 01:15 PM

Anyone got any photos of the dancers??

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 12 May 07 - 01:59 PM

Have some photos of the orchard- How do I put them on here?

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 12 May 07 - 04:06 PM

Chas, there once was a possibility to put them up here - but since a big server Crash about 2 years ago requests for photo uploads are unanswered.

But you could send them to me - I have enough space on my server for a few more photos.

I'll send you my email address by PM.

Andy/Andreas/MudGuard

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,gerry
Date: 12 May 07 - 04:27 PM

Sounds like a great time was had in Kiel! I was'nt there but I was in Portaferry earlier in the year. I have a few songs including Arthur McBride and Mary And The Soldier which I sang there at www.soundclick.com/gerryburke if anyone cares to visit. See ya'll.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 12 May 07 - 05:23 PM

I have some photographs of the dancers. Could you PM me your e-mail adress please Andy?

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 12 May 07 - 07:59 PM

Don, weed out the 70 worst pictures first, please ... :-)

Ron, which songs did you have difficulties with? There are several in Plattdeutsch (Low German). If you PM me I'll translate them for you.

Looking forward to more pictures ... will save some for the Akkerboom records. Thanks, lads!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 14 May 07 - 08:03 AM

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 14 May 07 - 04:02 PM

Pictures from Chas added - Doug's pictures will follow (I hope) tomorrow.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 14 May 07 - 05:39 PM

Oooh. Turned out nice again. hasn't it?

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:43 AM

Good pics, Andreas!

Can't get Doug's pictures though, just takes me back to page 4 of yours.

You haven't messed up your HTML have you???? (Hee hee)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 May 07 - 01:52 PM

Noreen, which part of "Doug's pictures will follow (I hope) tomorrow." did you not understand?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 May 07 - 02:52 PM

Thanks to everyone who sent me a postcard from this event! The card arrived in yesterday's mail and was a very pleasant surprise. I trust you all had a great time.

Tom Henehan

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:50 PM

Doug's pictures added.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: CET
Date: 15 May 07 - 07:03 PM

I wish I could have joined you in Kiel. Alas, real life conflicts with holidays. I am flying to Germany tomorrow - no music, though. Just a court martial at the NATO base in Geilenkirchen. It was great seeing the faces of the friends I met at La Garenne.

Edmund

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 15 May 07 - 07:20 PM

Edmund, you and Charmion were definitely missed! Hope you're both well and joining us next year.

Which brings on the question: Where are we Eurogathering next year? Any ideas?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 16 May 07 - 03:03 AM

Edmund - since there were very few cows where we met (almost none) we should have liked to hear Charmion serenading the fish.
Geilenkirchen is too far from my home or I should have tried to meet you there for a drink and some robber songs.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 16 May 07 - 04:16 AM

Well done Doug. And you too Andy.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 17 May 07 - 10:27 AM

You have to go back 22 post for the photos link, but it's worth it.

Or click on, "mudguard" 's posts until it comes up.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 17 May 07 - 01:30 PM

Ah- as it was tomorrow, I assumed that you had, with your normal efficiency Andreas, already put them up.

I suppose in that case it was the I hope that I didn't fully understand.

Sorry for doubting you :0)

Great pics all- wish I had been able to get there. Perhaps next year?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 May 07 - 07:19 PM

Definitely next year, I hope! Maybe you could suggest a convenient location, Noreen? :-)

Great pics, Andy and Doug! I'll suggest the 'Laboe Harbour' one for their promotional brochure!

Oh, and Chas has given warning that he may be back here with his Swedish dancers some time in the summer. Something else to look forward to.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Gulliver
Date: 21 May 07 - 01:55 PM

Finally started to upload photos. Sorry for the delay--my computer was on the blink and could not load them from the camera.

When they appear (sometimes takes a couple of hours for the server to update my web site) they'll be on

http://www.roguery.com/outings/kiel/index.htm

The first lot are from Sunday. I'll upload the rest over the next couple of days.

Take care, Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 May 07 - 03:05 PM

Nice pictures, Don.

(except those that show me ;-))

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 May 07 - 03:12 PM

Btw, 2 weeks delay are no problem - some of us are still waiting for the promised (and payed for) DVD of the 2004 Eurogathering in Hull ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 21 May 07 - 03:55 PM

Yes,great pics...already curious for the rest of them...
Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 21 May 07 - 04:00 PM

Here's a link to make finding them easier.

Don's photos

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 May 07 - 09:37 PM

That looked like a great weekend ! Shame I was otherwise engaged !
Nice piccies !!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 May 07 - 02:02 AM

And on the last picture you can see Doug's mug of fame immortal on the table ...
Considering the fate of his coffee pot let us sing altogether:
Let the beer mug be unbroken, by and by, Lord, by and by ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Gulliver
Date: 23 May 07 - 02:20 PM

A few more pics up on my site: www.roguery.com/outings/kiel from Friday and Saturday afternoon.
Only Saturday night to do now (that's the biggest lot!) and maybe add a few comments.

Take care y'all, Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 23 May 07 - 02:36 PM

Hey, Don:

great photos - keep èm coming!

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Gulliver
Date: 25 May 07 - 09:10 PM

Last of the photos are now on the site--whew! If anyone has names for the folks on Saturday they can forward them and I'll add to the site.

Take care, Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 26 May 07 - 04:57 PM

Thanks Don for all that pictures!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Brendy
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 01:19 PM

Hi Susanne.

Sorry, but I'm not going to make it to Kieler Woche this year, after all.
The accommodation wasn't what it was meant to be, so I pulled out.

I'm up in Esbjerg most of the time anyway, so if you're ever in the vicinity, my daytime (and sometimes nighttime) 'office' is the Paddy Go Easy Irish Pub, in that sainted town.....!

Hope to bump into you sometime.

All the best.

B.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 06:41 PM

What a pity! I'd been looking forward to meeting you and had a look round today, but they were still putting the stally together.

The last time I was in Esbjerg must have been ten years ago, but I'll remember.

Anyway, Chas told me he'd be coming back to these parts on 30 June - with a group of Swedish dancers. Something else to look forward to once Kiel Week is over.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 17 Jun 07 - 05:32 PM

There are a couple of posts missing here--what happened to them?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 18 Jun 07 - 09:23 AM

Yes we are coming to this place. Just East of Lubeck.

http://www.stadt-schoenberg.de/town/index.php


Nice pics Don Thanks.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 18 Jun 07 - 06:17 PM

No, they're not missing--I'm thinking of another thread.

So many threads, so little time...

Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 18 Jun 07 - 06:24 PM

Chas, glad you mentioned "east of Lubeck". I'd have gone to the wrong place. Schönberg is not exactly an uncommon name in German geography ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 11:48 AM

Hi folks,

My private owned PC is working again, and so finally I was able to complete the page with the song about the cuckoo which I translated from German into English as a dedication to this year's Eurogathering at Kiel where I sang it to you.

You'll find it in my Signals, Mudcatters, for the use of or directly at Gutzgauch

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 01:08 PM

Darn... I missed that one (you sang that on friday or sunday?). What about the one you sang at the ceili ("Kunnerad" is all I remember)?

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 10:09 PM

Is Gutzgauch dialect or old German?

I've been amusing my friends by singing the other cuckoo song which Wolfgang reminded me of in Susanne's flat--Auf einem Baum... I think I learned it when playing with a group called Hausmannskost in Hannover.

Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:03 AM

Ernest - A song too long to write it down now, maybe later. Unfortunately it is not in ingeb.org. Available at Bodensee Musikversand EUR 2,50

Don - Old German, other forms Guckgauch, Guggauch from gucken, gutzgen, gugetzen = to cry like a cuckoo.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 Aug 07 - 02:58 PM

Just been looking at the pictures once again and downloading on to my new computer. Wer'nt they great and didn't we have a good time.
All thanks to Sussanne for arranging it all.

Catch up with you all sometime.

Stay dry

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 11:01 AM

Yeah, fidjit, you're right, aren't you?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:42 PM

Hi Chas!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Gulliver (ohne Cooky)
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 12:43 PM

I'll be in Hannover next month, 15 September, for Leslie's BIG 5-0. Big party in Kulturtreff Hainholz on that day, in case anyone's in the vicinity.

Cheers, Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 03:57 PM

Sorry Don. 15th September I'm watching the Solhiem Cup Golf in Halmstad, Sweden. Whatever enjoy.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 04:03 PM

Also no time for a trip to Hannover on that weekend - but sent you a PM (hope you find your cookie again)
Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 03:15 PM

Susanne, what is the situation of the roof of the side building at Hof Ackerboom?

Has there been a decision on what kind of roof (Straw or tiles)?
Has the arsonist been found? (I think I remember he was caught but am not sure any more ...)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,Susanne (skw) on holiday in Norway
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 05:03 PM

Hi, boys! Don't think I'll make it to Hanover either, Doug, but enjoy yourself and drop in at Kiel if you have the time. There's a session on Thursday night.

Andy, the roof will take some more months to replace. Don't know if a definite decision has been taken yet. Not heard anything new about the arsonist either, other than what we read in the paper while we were going to Laboe on the ferry in May.

Nice to hear from youze, anyway. Passed through Giothenburg yesterday, but Chas was away playing a gig, so didn't see him.

Nobody has yet extended an idea for next year's Eurogathering. Where is it goign to happen?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 02:19 AM

Susanne, enjoy the rest of your holiday!
(I will be off to Slovenia in a few days ...)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 21 Aug 07 - 08:53 PM

I'm planning to go on to Paris after Leslie's do in Hannover, for the rugby game against France, so won't stay in Germany.

As regards next year's Eurogathering, please count me in--wherever it may be!

Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:46 PM

Sussanne
Let us know how you got on in Norway. If in Oslo visit the, "Dubliner Folkpub", Rådhusgt. Sat front room, 5'ish. And/or Tuesday evening in the back room 8'ish. Enjoy.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Aug 07 - 11:49 AM

15th of September in Hannover? Hmm, I'll be near that day, but scheduled for a family outing. But I'll see...

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: 2008 Eurogathering, anyone?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 03:19 PM

Back from Norway - great country, nice holiday. Made me feel homesick for Scotland. We didn't make it to the 'Dubliner', though, only passed it during the tour of the city on Saturday morning.

We could, of course, hold our next Eurogathering there. Any Mudcatter living in Oslo or nearby?

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 03:53 PM

Can't afford the price of the beer in Norway Suzanne.
G

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Brendy
Date: 28 Aug 07 - 09:22 PM

Oh, I'm up and down, Susanne...
I flit between Oslo and Denmark these days.

Mudcatter John Wood is out in Skjetten, not far from Oslo; I think there's someone here from Haugesund or Stavanger, as well. Åse and Marit, (forget their Mudcat handles, now...) are also from Oslo.

I'll be back up there again in October at The Shamrock in Oslo, and the Café Dublin in Trondheim....
.... check the website for details....
;-)

B.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 03:16 AM

I'm seconding Giok's objection

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 02:05 PM

I don't drink beer, Giok, but (stage whisper:) I took a few bottles of wine with me for the good of my purse ...

So, where will the next Eurogathering be? Scotland? Giok, you're doing such a great job with the Scottish gathering you might feel like doing it again next year!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 02:35 PM

I could do one at the same venue as the gathering, no problem at all.
Giok