10/16/14 day 9: Bonn, DE

Up early this morning to sounds of Freiburg waking up; church bells for ten solid minutes, trucks, bicycles clanking down the alley... It was cool and also not so cool if you wanted sleep, as I did.

Decided to take a little walk about and get some fresh air after realizing there was no hope in going back to sleep. Walked past the Muenster, down past the student center, Martinstor and back to the hotel for breakfast at 9:20.

Farmers market at the Münster.

Martinstor (brought to you by Mcdonalds)

Was joined shortly thereafter by the guys for a decent little breakfast spread. All of the standards were there including some really tasty yogurt (it's the little things.)

After spending an hour trying to resolve a rental car issue with Avis on the phone in my room (never using them again) we hit the road north to Bonn. It was smooth sailing basically the entire way and we arrived in Bonn around 4:20 in time to load into the hotel, check the internet and chill for a minute. This time we all had our own room! Hooray!

The club was so close to the hotel we decided to hoof it and give White Lightning a rest for the evening and the beauty of these tours is that everything basically fits on our backs. Instruments and bag of merch, done.

The club, Mausefall (Mouse Trap) is a little basement club in a mostly residential neighborhood. George the owner was pleasant but borderline cantankerous. That is, until he heard the sweet supple harmonies of the Sweet Remizzles! Just like Colt 45, it works everytime!

Show went well. Had a nice little crowd. Even had a mother and daughter make the trip from Cologne for the show. The daughter, Leah, is a budding guitar player and we have had an email correspondence about chords to some of the tSR tunes. Nice of her to show up and bring her mom who was bopping to the tunes all night.

The only thing missing from last night was a late night Döner. It's been days since a good Döner and my body is going into withdrawals. Must. Find. Döner....