Crispycat Recordings: 2007.06

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Not bad, good and picturesque......

Playlist

Various Artists - Holiday Playlists

LAst day of what has been a briliant trip all round...

Packed, breakfasted and off...

First, we drove South-East to the little town of Idar-Oberstein...

Here we found this statute to the painter Rudolf Wild-Idar...

...the fine looking library...

...and enjoyed a coffee...

...before heading onwards, North-East to the picturesque Bad Kreuznach...

...enjoying a wander around and drinks by the river...

Then, to the final leg of our drive - back to the airport...

We checked in...

...enjoyed a beer...

...and searched for and found Anne's contact lens...

A triumphant end to the trip indeed"...

Uneventful flight home and we were soon back in situ at Crispycat Towers...

Highlight of the Day : Bad Kreuznach...

Friday, June 29, 2007

Along the Roman Road...

Playlist

Various Artists - Holiday Playlists

A drive along the banks of the Mosel today...

We found some old stuff...

...including this Roman Garden...

The Ausoniusgarten...

This Roman poet provided the only then contemporary description of the Mosel river and valley...

We were on the Ausoniusstrasse - the Roman road the twists and turns along the banks of the river...

We found the Villa Rustica in Mehring.

One of the largest of the Roman manor houses along the wine route, Villa Rustica, built in the 2nd century AD, can be found nestled in the middle of a modern German residential neighborhood...

Discovered in the 19th century and excavated in the 1980s, the villa has been partially reconstructed...

After a wander around and some exploration we found a place for Kaffee und Kuchen...

...before returning to the ruins for further exploration...

The, back into the car and further driving along the "Roman Road", stopping along the way to record a particularly fine view, spread over these five pics...

Then, back to Bernkastel Kues and down to the river...

Back at Traben Trarbach we noted some properties we might buy...

...and enjoyed more Kaffee und Kuchen...

...and the swans...

We returned to Traben Trarbach for a very tasty dinner...

Yumtastic!

...followed by a constitutional...

...and then home for some classical music on the telly...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : Despite all the other great stuff, has to be the Schnitzel und pommes...

Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!