Jazz and Joe Green

I had a very busy weekend of lots of report writing.  Thankfully we got to break this up with some great activities.  

Friday evening we went to Dachau Aldstadt.  Sometime ago we were told about a special night in Dachau - it was a "Chess Night".  Needless to say we weren't as enthused as the guy telling us about it until he produced a leaflet that said "Jazz Night".  It was a fantastic night with 8 different bands on stages set up around the old town - in alleys and piazzas with beer gardens (and sausage stalls) set up at each.  Unusually there was a cocktail stall which our friend Penny was very happy to find.  The "Amper Stompers" were a particularly entertaining collection of ageing gentlemen belting out trad jazz. At one point, the pianist wittily combined a well known Beethoven stanza with a piece of Richard Claydermen in a frenetic honky tonk piece. We continued the night sitting and listening to an amazing gypsy swing quartet lead by the guitarist, Joscho Stephan, who we will try and see again sometime whilst here.

Saturday morning we were invited to Sophie and Craig's place for pancakes.  Mmmm ..... banana pancakes.  After this I went back to reports :(  and Malcolm took Sophie for another check up for her knee at a very thorough German hospital!

Schloss Schleissheim

Back in August when we visited the Schloss Schleissheim we were keen to go to a concert in the beautiful hall inside.  Tickets selling out and prices stopped us doing this last year.  But this year....

In thanks for Malcolm's patient transfers, Sophie bought us tickets to see the Verdi concert for the Saturday night.  Except for the ordinary wine we were not disappointed.  

Being as cultural as we are, we then went to the Beer Garden in the Schloss gardens for beer and sausages!

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