The road to Gasteiz - tip toe, bang!
Arriving in Vitoria, Spain at 12.30 am would ordinarily have been a normal affair, for any traveller, gypsy or wandering jew, arriving at night, when the rest of the world is asleep affords you the opportunity to establish your place under the guise of dark. When they awake, you are there, as if it had always been that way. In this case however, I arrived completely and absolutely exhausted, having returned home at 3 am the night before. after discovering cookin Quartet playing on one of Paris’s main streets, I quickly got a cab home, fetched my horn and made my way back to the club, the factthat I had to get a train at 5 in the morning at that point didn’t deter me, neither did the fact that I had to get 5 trains, 5 trains I hear you ask yourself, or is it me, once again trying to make sense of how its possible to play hop scotch all over the French country side. With anything from a 4 min to a 4 hour wait between trains, I imployed all primal instincs necessary to fight my way through the mob of frenchies, also trying to find which of the 40 trains all leaving at the same time, they were supposed to be on.
Suffice to say, I made it, the highlight of this animalistic voyage was surely a brief stop at a small town in Portugal, where I spent approximately 3 minutes, most of which was consumed by the mad frenzy to get all bags, which include, clothes for 3 months, a mini recording studio ( that fits snugly into a rather large backpack) and my longtime lover,companion, 55 year old French beauty, my trusted and dependable saxophone, through security, since the Basque Sepratists started blowing shit up in an attempt to get independence the Government had become a little more vigilant, did they know I was wanted in my home country for never paying my T.V liscense? Anyways, it was survival of the fittest, I personally took out a plus 60 year old, but she deserved it! Back onto a train it was, for the last part of the mission. Boom, 2 hours later I arrived in vitoria.
20 mins later I was at the University residence that was to be home for the next week.