It has begun!
The bike:
I am sitting on the floor at Georg's house looking over the mess of parts that will soon become my bike. I somehow mannnaged to talk the lovely lady on the qantas desk in Adelaide into allowing me to have 25 kgs in my luggage- around 13 of which was bike parts. If you do the maths it means i didn't come with many pairs of undies! The bike and trailer however are slowly taking shape and we are off the bike store this arvo to gets some of the bits i couldn't fit in my luggage.
The trip:
Aside from the luggage the trip was mostly uneventful. A 4 hr delay in Adelaide meant i almost missed the onward flight but made it just in time. My seat companion on the way over was a young lass from sydney. She was the 8th of 11 chidren and so the praticlaties of this ( how are you supposed to remember all their birthdays???) formed a good part of our banter. I think my lack of catholisicmness might have tarnished her opionion of me however as she became less talkative when she found out.
Regensburg:
First day in Germany and i end up at a massive festival where it seems that the headline act was and ACDC cover band! I guess a German coming to Adelaide would have the same level of confusion if they went to the shusztenfest! The crowd however were loving it! And the performers looked in better shape the real band anyway. For a town of 100k people i don't think many people stayed at home. There were at least 7 stages ( it wasnt just ACDC thankfully) with all kinds of random performances ( an all girl ABBA tribute was another) and loads of stalls spread down the river.
