Wine, women and song

Berlin is bloody nice place. Cold and windy but really well worth a visit.
You can get your passport stamped at Checkpoint Charlie and drink huge steins of weissbier around the clock in salubrious bars with unpronounceable names. If the fancy takes you there are Trabants on sale ( the car on Achtung Baby cover) for about $3000 US. There are women, men and lord knows what else available to the discerning traveller and all in all its a highly invigorating city.

I saw posters for all sorts of bands who were passing through: Snow Patrol were one and another was BLACK UHURU - a band I haven't heard of in about 20 years! Cutting edge excellent reggae. I rate tham much higher than Misty in Roots but thats a another shaggy John Peel story.

A few days here and I am almost back in the world again.

The trouble though with Northern Europe is that it's cold and Windy for 6 months of the year. It makes me really pine for the fjords of New Zealand in summer.

Which reminds me, Greg has a complitation album coming out soon which you get free with bottles of Kim Crawford Wines in the USA.

How good is that? Get nicely mellow on wine and warbles.

You see that's a nice little tie in with a company that understands how life really is. You work hard all day and when it somes to down time you really need to relax in company with friends and chill out sometimes. No need to think about what to put on the stereo. It's all done for you.

I really like this plan because it means we aren't trying too hard to be "imaginative" and that makes a big change.

Easy.