Snake Festival

A trip out to SchlangeFest which is the festival in Schlangenbad (Snake bath). Festival is, perhaps, giving it a bit too much credit. The first place we sat at had Awful, Awful Musik (imagine the worst sort of Oompah musik you've heard and then add a Boom-Shadda-Boom-Shadda sub disco beat to it - turn that up to 11 and you'll be quite close to how awful it was).

Now we were not standing for that so we moved to another table which just happened to be where a duo started up their routine of utterly, utterly horrible cover versions of songs that didn't deserve that kind of treatment.

Sweet Caroline proved the final straw. Or rather, Schweeeeet Cayrooooolynnnnne. Just irritatingly out of tune and time from both singers. I don't remember the Neil Diamond version where the music finished before the singing did but that's the one we had here.

We ran away to a very nice restaurant where we could hear only birdsong and each other. Bliss. The restaurant is part of a complex with an outdoor swimming pool. The pool is emptied every night and refilled from a natural spring with a temperature of 28 degrees C. If I liked swimming then I would swim there.

Today's Blip is a water lily from the pond that I try to keep clear of algae. Not today, though, I'm still a bit crocked.

Vielen Dank to everyone who dropped by to say hello yesterday - hugely appreciated and it was my first Blip to appear on the Spotlight page (probably for 5 minutes while everyone in the northern hemisphere was asleep).

No tune for today, I've still got bad music to get out of my head.