...Chapter 2

Posted by Karina

I think we pretty much got to the end of our trip to Kappeln in the last post. You can see some pictures that the local paper took at www.foto-panozzo.de then select Strandfest Weidefeld and after the fireworks, there are some pics of us doing our thing...much fun!

So it was with the most positive of feelings we set out on the road to Stuttgart. The drive was long but fairly painless and we arrived (on Tony's birthday!) at around 11pm on the Monday night. After a fantastic welcome from Thilo's family, we were led through to a spread of goodies, beer and birthday cake for Tone which was feckin' ace. We ate ourselves stupid that night and pretty much every meal time at Thilo's folks. They provided a very generous BBQ one night too. Everyone ate till it hurt! A big thanks to you both and to Simone and Sacha (Thilo's sister and her boyfriend) for looking after us so well! We managed to fit in a practice while we were there thanks to Thilo's good friend Lars. He very kindly let us use his practice room which was a bedroom in a converted army barracks! SWEET MAN! Really cool. You rent the room month by month, wish we had something like that over here. The evening's entertainment was provided by another of Thilo's wonderful friends called Jens. He kept the lads occupied till the early hours of the morning at his pad . They had a really great time and always arrived back laughing hysterically... can't think why... We were also lucky enough to hook up with the dynamic duo (Matze and Ade who came to see us in Kappeln) while we were in Stuttgart and things rapidly went down hill till we ended up singing Billy Jean at a karaoke at an Irish pub in the centre of town...ouch! Again, with hangovers in tow, we set off for Switzerland, over the moon with our trip so far and I was doubly excited about our next stop cos I was going to see my Dad!

Stay tuned for the next instalment of 'The Thrilling Adventure's of O.S in Europe', coming to a computer near you in a couple of days!

Love you's,

K xxx