we've left it a long time to do this, and we've done heaps so we'll forget loads, but here are the standard cryptic highlights of the first week and a half of our euro tour...

1. belgian wrinkelboms & dudelsaks
2. 24 hour bread machines
3. playing to mating dogs in a church full of delightful stoned people
4. the biggest woodburner in the world
5. throwing darts live on friesland radio, and missing the entire world
6. throwing darts live on friesland radio and destroying central africa
7. the button that goes 'doodle doodle parp' (again on friesland radio)
8. the land of cookies (or coekijes, or something)
9. lunch with annemarieke
10. the smallest woodburner in the world
11. coffee with annemarieke
12. pindekaas, pindekaas, pindekaas, pindekaas
13. rotterdam with brenda & pijke, belgian beer and snuffly cold starts
14. tempeh sambal & banana chips (mmmmmmmmmm)
15. plastic cups from j c de bunker
16. beer with annemarieke
17. bert's small garage-house
18. sammy the cat
19. kurt, the clompensokken, the kippen and the hospitality
20. the beautiful church at wirdum
21. a show at 11am!?
22. auke's pompoen soep
23. groningen cake, and even more biscuits
24. the singing library in amsterdam (shhhhhhhh!)
25. hospitality and friendship from sandra and eowyn - thanks!
26. playing live on national dutch radio, throughout a show we couldn't understand...
27. the awesome breakfast bakery and goats cheese sandwich
28. driving through denmark in a day
29. norwegian scenery..! like 15 countries in the space of an hour's drive!
30. gunnar's lovely house and lovely family.
31. learning to eat brown cheese the proper way (not the way it comes out of gren's fridge)
32. cans of bog and of snurring, and entertaining nesehornen
33. the random man with the nosefulte
34. great shows and delightful audiences in stavanger and in klepp
35. moooooooooon!
36. being blown around on the beach in orre
37. seaweed fights and sand in our teeth

we leave for the islands today - finnøy then utsira - then onto oslo.

if you have vlc or windows media player or something like that, you can catch a slice of our dutch radio performance here - http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/ikon/OBAlive/11-07-08/muziek.wmv

finally - these lovelies just in from rough trade and rock n' reel...

'inspirational musicianship - full of joyously engaging songs.'
- rough trade

'a fine album, and possibly her best so far'
- rock n' reel ****

full reviews online and in the mag - we are also on the covermount for rock n' reel this month.

see you all soon,

m&k x