David Kellam

Whilst this may sound like a food post, it’s not, I swear! It is merely representative of the free pocket of time I have now found myself with, and the fact I am sharing it with a Frozen Cappucino (which is very good!)

We are currently in Luebeck, in northern Germany. We sang last night in the Waldkirche (Forest Church) in Timmendorfer Strand (beach). I got a lift back to the youth hostel as my back was killing me, then had pizza with Jacob. OK, so this wasn’t going to be about food… much As the others arrived I found out there had been some minor panic in our absence. Liz thought the car we were in, which contained half the choir’s backpacks as well as Tom K, Jacob and me, would just be transporting us to the station. However, they drove us back to Luebeck (probably 25 minutes away) instead. With Liz’s bag. Full of tickets. So there was some minor consternation and hurried phone calls as the backpack was transported BACK to Timmendorfer Strand so that the choir could catch the train back to Luebeck. They just made it, apparently. Whilst this was happening, I was blissfully unaware and tucking into my Hawaiian

My back seems to have recovered (which it is doing quickly now thanks to chiro) with the aid of a back massage and many drugs. So today I have been walking around the town with Kate, Kass and Meg. We visited the Gummi Bear shop - seriously cool! I walked out only 10e poorer. Such restraint! We then ventured to a cool music store, with awesome gifts and heaps of musical score, etc. We need more shops like that in Australia. I bought some cool cards - I will scan them in when I get home!

The coolest thing about Luebeck has been our personal tour guide Kristin. I’m not exactly sure how she came to meet us, but it appears more or less random. She showed us around the old church in the centre of town which was bombed during the war (1942). The weather has been very Melbourne-esque, so the church stop also doubled as a shelter from the weather. We then had lunch at a ‘traditional Bavarian restaurant’ wherein I had Schweinshake - a hock of pig with mashed potatoey-goodness, sauerkraut and dark beer sauce. We had an enjoyable lunch and then bid Kristin farewell until our concert tonight.

Hopefully we can now go back to the Marzepan place for ice-cream and more marzepan. Apparently this is the place where it was first made. The store has all sorts of marzepany creations, all of which call out to be purchased.

Anyway, thus far a thoroughly enjoyable day in Luebeck and not enough time to describe it properly.

Food: marzepan
Music: Durufle
Puzzlehunt: no news

P.S.The ice-cream at the Marzepan place was a let-down

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