Two hours can be too long when it's jazz...

Playlist

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets

Pink Floyd - More

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Catacombe - Quidam

The Fatback Band - Essential 70s Funk Recordings

The Ohio Players - Ecstasy

Rameau - Dardanus

Monk Higgins - Extra Soul Perception

L.T.D. - Love To The World

The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

Various - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three

Matthew Bourne - Isotach

The Last Poets - This Is Madness

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Lady GaGa - The Remix

Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free: An Introduction To Wishbone Ash

Winston Price - Africa's Blood

Various Composers - The Classical Collection

Prince Jammy - Big Showdown At King Tubby's

Various - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials

Curtis Mayfield - Short Eyes

Various - NOW That's What I Call Country

Andrea Belfi - Ore

Tori Amos - To Venus And Back

Tuber - Out Of The Blue

Capital Models - 2018-05-27

Dinosaur - Together, As One

James Stein's Locksmith Isidore - After Caroline

Various - Funk Soul Classics (Ministry of Sound)

The Ohio Players - Pleasure

Gary Burton - A Genuine Tong Funeral

Erik Honorè - Heliographs

Taylor Swift - Fearless

Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits

Various Composers - Music from Renaissance Portugal

I Roy & The Upsetters - Double Seven

Bach, C P E - Die Israeliten in der Wuste

Isaac Hayes - Raw & Refined

Matthew Bourne - Radioland : Radio-Activity Revisited

Rocket Miner - Songs For An October Sky

Favourite Animals - Favourite Animals

Susanna - Wild Dog

Ghetto Blaster - Pulp Fusion Vol. 10 Africa Funk

Atlantis Quartet - X

Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 2 - Return To The Tough Side

Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder

Up early, listening to Pink Floyd re the book by Nick Mason, the current read...

To the local grocery store for supplies...

...and back home for breakfast...

...on the balcony...

The views...

We'd decided to have a relaxed day today, just taking in the sights of Baden Baden...

A walk down the hill...

Mmm, Cafe König...

The Roman Baths - which we never got round to visiting properly...

An art gallery, with a feature on Udo Lindenberg's work...

A statue to Bismarck...

Beautiful Black Forest buildings...

We will see the NDT tomorrow...

Anne reckoned this might be a good outfit for me for nephew Ali's upcoming wedding...

Over to the gardens by the River Oos...

...and the Trinkhalle - where once waters were taken, now the Tourist Info centre...

Some info partaken of, before walking on...

...and a well earned seat outside the Casino...

The views...

...including looking back to the Trinkhalle...

...and forward to the open air Konzertmuschel beim Kurhaus...

More views...

We climbed the steps up to the Town Hall...

...and on to the Stiftkirche...

...the New Palace...

..and a stage where Shakespeare would be performed this evening...

On to the Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst Baden-Baden, Modern Art Gallery...

...for an exhibition of photography and art by Irene & Stefanie Hauger...

This was not art but could have been...

A quick look in the church...

...with its impressive organ...

...and back down to the town...

...for lunch...

..and people watching...

Back to the balcony for a rest and refreshments...

...before venturing out again into the heat...

...to the Kunsthalle...

...which adjoins the Museum Frieder Burda, again Modern Art...

To the Kunsthalle Cafe...

...and out onto the terrace for drinks...

...before a talk (with examples) on Jazz by Thomas Neuhauser...

...fish was available but we stuck to the biers...

Much of the music quoted on Herr Neuhaser's site is in my own collection - perhaps a podcast could be produced...

Eventually, after around 90 of the allotted 120 minutes, it all got too much for the EP...

...and so, we exited before full time...

A walk through the park, noting these monkeys enjoying the sun...

Back to the town...

...and wurst for tea, accompanied by these freakish dinner companions...

Then, a concert of music by, mostly, Johann and Josef Strauss back at the Konzertmuschel beim Kurhaus...

...followed by a long walk home around the back of the town...

We ended up descending steps to the apartment instead of climbing, noting this wee chum on the way...

Back home at last...

...to the Petite Bellevue...

First full, packed, day over...

Artwork of the day, "Forbidden Fruit (and Cake)"...

Highlight of the Day : Getting our bearings...