Yesterday was my last show in Belgium at the 'tEy club near Antwerp which richly deserves it's reputation as the best folk club in Belgium. Word of my birthday leaked out and I was pleasantly surprised by a few gifts: an earthenware bottle of Dutch corn schnapps, Belgian chocolates, some impossibly strong Belgian beer, and the…Read more Beer and birthday in Belgium

I am now in the low countries, it took longer than I thought to get here though. Terrible traffic in the Rhur valley and the autobahn to Cologne was closed. The hours ticked by and it looked like I was going to be very late for my show in Meise. I was listening to Willie…Read more The Low Countries

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Driving through mist and rain of lower Saxony, I arrived yesterday at the magnificent Bad Bentheim castle, much loved and painted by the Dutch landscape artist, Ruisdael. I visited this castle a couple of years ago and when I walked into the chapel, built into a tower, I had a dream that I wanted to…Read more Bad Bentheim