Germany for me was more of a working visit than anything else, since there were a lot of this that I had to sort out – I had to get a new passport, buy things including some furniture for South Africa, ship things down there, apply for my South African visa (after having collected all the required documents for that), and move the remaining stuff out of the attic of my previous apartment in Hamburg. Between all of that, however, I also managed to introduce J to my family and also catch up with my former band mates. Also, we went to a concert in Berlin, which was very nice even though Julia Fischer, who was supposed to play the violin, couldn’t make it, being replaced by Taiwanese-Australian violinist hotshot Ray Chen (which was also nice, but not quite what we had expected also in terms of the pieces he played).
In the end, I managed to get all the things done in about two weeks, and we then left on our last “holiday” trip before we will start working again: we flew to the US east coast.