Herr Mike in Deutschland

One of the reasons Christian chose this weekend to invite me was because his band were playing at some festivals. Christian plays saxophone in a typical German folk band, I am talking lederhosen, the lot. It was Class! They played some typical German fest songs which are the best. I've been to that many fests I know the words which always amazes the locals if they know I'm english. There were a few modern songs thrown in to get the crowd going - Status Quo's 'Whatever you Want' went down particularly well, though was a bit bizarre as Germans pronounce W's as V's! (Vatever you Vant!)

Saturday's Fest was a Frankonian Wine Fest. 'Frankenwein' is world renowned and I actually really like some of it though I am not a wino by any means. There was a beauty contest for Fest queen and a dance show to keep us entertained and a lively German couple sat next to us ensured our glasses were never empty. Was a really good laugh.

On Sunday Christian played at another Fest though this was much lower key, in a small village hall with children running amok all over the place. Was great to see some small town German
culture outside of the cities, I had a really great time in Volksbrunn and I hope to go back again sometime