29th june 2007 - 8am, shortly before regensburg

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness"
Michel de Montaigne

i hear chiming. I have been awake for an hour and am sitting by the window with my cup of tea. I look out at the landscape, birds chirp, blue cloudy sky over the willows that border the banks of the river.

late night, after the concert.
it was a chequered evening. today haindling were our guests on the ship, we sang his "holzscheitlsräp" and the 3 brass musicians, Reinhard, Michael and Markus played along during my "I bi ån". all in all it was a great concert, we played well and the audience was grateful too. thank god. because there were massive problems with the sound system. that was partly long-term effects from the Viennese storm, so that was residual moisture, but also because after two weeks on board we still haven't found the time to finally calibrate the whole system. there was no opportunity before Vienna and since then we have been occupied with addressing the damage.
spani was devastated. hage too, who was outside, couldn't hide his disappointment. on top of that there were problems with the police, who penalised our captain because he fastened our ship to a tree with a rope instead of an alternative, something that is forbidden in Bavaria.

To say nothing of the conservation people who during the concert had their own music system playing on their information stand, with "anastasia" and similar. nobody went to bed happy tonight.