first things first

Hello everybody

Hi Jay!

I hope your well and sorry i haven't got on the blog sooner, i've just been having a bit of difficulty hooking my laptop up to the net. I'm now on one of the pc's that come with the apartment and it's all in german which is fun.
anyway, yep, the saxophone made the journey! all wrapped up with heavy duty parcel tape/bubble-wrap combo, it went in the hold in the end as a fragile item. anyway, its good to have it out here. We had a big house jam last night after a dinner, with tomas playing his amplified tree root instrument and a guitar and sax and people howling and electric organs and glasses filled with water (quite loud amongst everything else). It was a big old mess of people messing around with sounds and things. good fun.

Sean and Eleanor left at lunchtime today and now i'm the only Liverpool person here. It imiediatly felt different when they left, and i went back into with the other artists to the house. It's them and me now. It's a good feeling. i can get to know these people on my own, it's exciting.

The main thing that has been going round my head since i arrived is how the place has met with my expectations. I mean, since i arrived i've been taking everything in as it comes - here's a new train station, here's what the outside of the villa looks like, this is that bit we've been talking about, and on and on. Well, it's funny becuase thats kind of seperate from the images (on the blog) i was taking in back in Liverpool. They still retain their mystery, even though i can now look at them and then go and look at where they taken. Hmmmm.

The blog kind of drip feeds you images of what's going on here, creating faint hints of what it's like, but nothing concrete in a sense. Well, maybe all images used in this way aren't concrete. You can never get the full picture. and i can see that now.

This is a classic thing about travel and going on holiday. Whenever i've been about to go somewhere i've had an image of what it's going to be like in my head. But then that soon goes (as you're on holiday) and you don't have anything to really look back on and go 'thats what i thought it was going to be like'......but now with the blog you can look back at those trigger images. I can still imagine what i thought it was going to look like and those images fit in with that, but not necessarily with what i see now.

anyway, thats enough of that. It's fun and exciting out here.