Germany

Hello to everyone from Sweden! While it has been five days on the tour, this is the first time I've had a chance to get online to write about our journey in the past few days. But I've got some downtime, so I thought I would take the opportunity to do so. The connection here is a little weak, which poses a challenge in trying to upload photos, but at the next good opportunity, I will post as many as possible.

Our first day was purely travel. We flew from Boston into the London airport, which turned out to be a really fun trip. Aside from my efforts to get over being sick, I got to watch a few movies on the plane. I had never seen "No Country for Old Men," which I enjoyed, as well as "Juno." Upon arriving to the London airport, Mike and I noticed something unlike any American airport we have been to: it was so clean and so quiet. Oh yeah I mentioned Mike...he's touring with us as our drummer. He's a great guy and we've been having a lot of fun with him.

We finally arrived in Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday night, and travelled to Mannheim, the town in which Steffen (Pull A Star Trip / Tour manager) lives. We had a great time meeting his friends from the area. We also got to experience authentic German (actually Turkish) food called a doner. Here you can see Steffen and his roommate Toby. After a round-robin tournament of beer pong, Team America came out on top. Victory was ours.




Thursday morning consisted of an early awakening and a trip to Steffen's parents' home for a lovely lunch. His parents were so nice and we got to see more of Germany. Steffen kept talking about his Porche, and after much anticipation... well it was a Porche... it just happened to be a tractor made by the same company.

Here are some photos from Steffen's house:







After this, we played our first show in Hamburg, Germany at a venue called Fundbureau. It was our first show, and while we played a good set, tiredness was still a factor for all of us. Despite the fact Hamburg is a big city, there were still a good amount of people there to watch, as well as buy some merch.





After the show, we got to check out the local pub scene, where we found two really nice places with good music and good people. I don't know if it's obvious that we're American, but we definitely brought a carefree vibe to the dance floors, getting many people involved in a good night.

The next morning we drove to Paderborn, where Pull A Star Trip started. Here we got to play at Bart's (Pull A Star Trip) bar called Wunder-Bar. It was a nice little place, but definitely not short of a good crowd. We played a great acoustic set, and got to meet many new faces. We also got to see some old friends Jonas and Iza, who we met on our first tour and were once members of Pull A Star Trip. They took us out and showed us some of the pubs to check out. For some reason we never even made it back to sleep. It was another great night in Germany.

More to come soon on Sweden. As for now, ciao!