So. First off... THANKS VERY MUCH to everyone who has taken their time to read; thanks to those who left a comment... be it here or on Facebook. I can honestly say that we have appreciated every single one of you who gave this site a click or two over the past two months. It was our first blog experience, so thanks for bearing with us when things weren't as perfect as we would have liked them to be.
I won't lie, it was a lot of work, given the busy tour schedule, but most importantly it was a lot of fun!!! Our goal was, to share Lee's performances and some tour adventures with those of you who couldn't be there at all, or couldn't see every show. And also to bring back some memories to those who were lucky enough to see Lee perform at one or more shows.
The Tales From Britain tour certainly wasn't the last tour with Lee that we've attended (given that it wasn't his last tour but I highly doubt that). It's not clear yet though, if we'll continue this blog for another tour. Or if we'll continue it in this form, or on this platform, or if we'll do it on Facebook only... We'll see what the future brings.
For now, we want to close the Tales From Britain chapter for good with some statistics:
Shows we've seen: 15 regular, 1 private
Days on the road: 24
Cities we've been to: 17
Mileage: 6,004 kilometers | 3,730 miles
Gas: 564 liter | 149 gallons
Tour vehicle: Volkswagen Golf VII TDI R-Line named Käpt'n Blaubär (what? we're girls! of course do our cars have names!)
Photo/media-equipment: Canon 60D, Canon 7D, MacBook Pro, HP Pavillion dm1, iPhone
The award for the Best Tour Hotel goes out to Pension Weserblick in Bremen-Vegesack. There may have been bigger ones and more comfortable ones (as in: had larger rooms and elevators etc), but this one just had so much charme and atmosphere, the food in their restaurant was excellent, the staff was friendly and very very helpful (thanks to the guy who hauled our luggage up the staircase to the 3rd floor...). It was located at the river and provided the most "holiday" feeling of them all.
We want to thank the following people:
First and most of all - of course - : Lee MacDougall! Without you, your beautiful music, wonderful voice and outstanding talent, this all wouldn't have happened. We'll forever cherish the first ever performance of you that we saw on 02/22/13 in Bielefeld. 27 more shows followed since then and we hope there'll be many more to come. Seriously... you score phenomenally high in the awesome-o-meter. Thanks for everything!! :-)
Tom Lüneburger for bringing out Lee as support. Which led to the Bielefeld show. Which led to... see above.
Tour manager Mona Schnell and Lee's manager Thomas Kühn for being so helpful and supportive throughout this tour [and for giving some good advices ;-)]
Sarah Howells and Rich Llewellyn of Paper Aeroplanes for being an excellent and enjoyable "other half" of this double headliner tour. We truly loved your songs and performances and look forward to seeing a show again in the hopefully not so distant future.
Mr. Thorsten Park from car dealer VW Wolf in Mülheim. Without him there would have been no way to get our tour vehicle on time. It arrived on the very last possible day... one day before tour start. Whew! Great job!
The two very helpful guys at the hotels in Bremen and Travemünde for being so incredibly helpful with the luggage. We never would have made it up these stairs without you.
Stefie's Dad for making sure that all the plants were still alive when we returned home :-)
Our dear friend Jinjer in L.A. for the occasional grammar- and I-have-a-problem-with-that-sentence help. Please give her blog a click, she has some very interesting stories to tell about exploring the wonderful Los Angeles and its surrounding areas.
Our employers/bosses, for allowing us to be away from work for so long. We didn't take this for granted!
And lastly, again, thanks to all our readers and also for everyone we've personally met "on the road". It was fun getting to know you and we certainly made some new friends out there :-) Hope to see you all again on the next tour.
I want to close this post now with this guy we saw in Frankfurt on the very last day, when we had started our way home. He certainly inspired us to rethink our tour logistics concept. How much better would it be to travel like this:
- Cheaper because you don't have to pay for gas
- Enhances the fitness level in an extraordinary way
- Forces to travel with light luggage
We should think about it....
THE END.
