Playlist
Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Group: Decade 2011-2021
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2025
Trabaci - Keyboard Music (Book I 1603)
Miles Davis - Osaka Festival Hall, Japan, February 1st, 1975
Amy Millan - I Went to Find You
Billow Observatory - The Glass Curtain
Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging
Various - 100 Hits: Sunday Morning Songs
Various - Funk Essentials
Up at 6:50 and some initial listening while I packed the minuscule receptacle…
Laptop shutdown…
Breakfast…
We were ready to go but it was still too early…
At 8:30 to the back room and a 3CD set of Harpsichord and Organ works by Trabaci, whose music is said to be the earliest examples of Baroque, was given a spin. Gotta love the baroque..
Also enjoyed was a home made 3CD set comprising Miles Davis’ 1975 Japanese concerts, released as “Agharta” and “Pangaea”; plus “Mtume” from “Get Up With It”, recorded by the same band…
Then, it was deemed time to go - off we went at 9:25…
Through security by 10:10 - flight at, erm, 12:40…
Coffee and cake at Costa…
Lunch provisions secured…
Boarding just after 12 - a small plane and we were right up the back, with no window…
The flight was not full, so the steward very kindly let us move to a window seat…
Took off 5 minutes late and the flight passed quickly - just 70 minutes, soundtracked by an Eclectic Selection…
But then, of course, post Brexit Passport Control…
And so, it wasn’t until 90 minutes after landing that we were on the train from Brussels to our final destination, Antwerp, where we arrived at 16:45, Belgian time…
Then, the long walk to our apartment…
20 minutes in, we stopped for a beer at Cafe de Kroon van Hopland…
From there, it was another 35 minutes to our base for the trip…
Total journey time, 7hrs 40 mins, door to door…
The welcoming bottle of wine was a nice touch…
Settled in and, at 7, out...
...and round the corner to den Buro for Belgian beers in the company of the co-owner, Wim, who once worked for Ben Line Shipping Company, whose offices were coincidentally opposite the flat I lived in in 1979/80, in the same street as our first record shop…
He gave us a few off the beaten track sightseeing tips…
Then to nearby Pizza Pugliese for a top tea, with more beers…
A walk round the neighbourhood and home to relax by 9:30 - our days of clubbing until the early hours are, let’s face it…
…still ahead of us!
Classical music could be heard in our living room from the apartment below but it was blocked out by leftfield jazz and funky sounds as we watched France v Spain in the semi final of the Euro Nations Cup…
Spain got to 4-0 up. Then, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4…
France very nearly got back but it was just too late…
Bed just after 11, after a long, enjoyable day…
Highlight of the Day : On holiday in Antwerp…
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