So, I'll start at the very beginning... my, to think that it's only been two weeks (and two days) ago! It seems like ages!!

On Thursday Aug 6 Chrissy, Josey (no panic, that's just her nickname!) and I - 3 of the 5 Fanclub members in Bonn - met at the station in Bonn at about 3 p.m. to catch the train to Düsseldorf at 3.28 where we planned to meet Nicki, a Fanclub member from Essen, and take the same train from there to Kevelaer. Our train arrived in Düsseldorf at 4.12, on schedule, and Nicki's one was to arrive at 4.09; we wanted to meet at the timetable for our departing rail. When she didn't come we went onto the platform, we saw our train come, we saw our train leave... Chrissy and Josey went to search her while I looked after our luggage (loads of...): rucksacks, sleeping bags, tents... because we were going to stay at a campsite in Copenhagen.
Finally I heard an announcement, asking her to come to platform # 5, and found myself thinking, "poor one, how embarrassing!".
Then a girl who looked like Nicki had described herself came up the stairs, followed by Chrissy and Josey. Chrissy addressed her...
Her train had been to late, and just when she'd got off she had heard the announcement. So we phoned Monika and Dieter to tell them they did not have to pick us up yet, and caught the next train, one hour later. We didn't get bored during that hour, of course!
So we didn't arrive in Kevelaer at 5.23 but at 6.23... phoned from the station, and Monika came with the big 9-seat Ford Transit with which we were going to drive to Copenhagen... At their house we got the motifs of the "Official European Deep Blue Something Fanclub" ironed on our white t-shirts which we had brought with us so that we could all wear them the next evening, and the others who would also drive with the bus dropped in: one of them had already been there when we arrived, and else came two other FC members.

At about 10-11 p.m. we started; Chrissy, Josey and I sat on the backseats, Nicki and two other girls in the middle, and another one and Dieter and Monika in the front; Monika and Dieter took turns in driving.
We listened to DBS all the time, Chrissy had mixed two tapes with all songs from all the three albums... It's strange but with DBS music running I can't sleep. Or barely. At a rest stop near Hamburg we met the three girls from Cologne, and two from Helmstedt, who drove all the five with another car.
After some coffees (but not for me) we drove on "in line". We arrived at the ferry at about... what time was it... 4 a.m., roughly. I remember the sky was all covered with clouds. And do you know this empty feeling one gets when seeing that it's already dawning and then thinking that one's barely had some sleep? When being on some island at about half past 5 I thought "now we're on the same island as our boys! Incredible..." And the thought that we had to drive another few hours till arriving at the campsite suddenly put me to sleep.
Fortunately when I woke up short before Copenhagen, the sun was shining. Nevertheless I took another little nap.

Arriving on the campsite at half past 8, we built up the tents and then Josey and I went to the washing house to "renew" ourselves. I had lost any sense of time, suddenly the thought came to my mind that all the peopz we saw were only just getting up!
Then we went to look for a bakery with breakfast and had to walk about a mile for that. Monika, Dieter and the others had already gone there, and Chrissy and Nicki preferred to stay on the campsite and have some dry crackers (Chrissy wasn't able to eat much anyway during the whole few days). On our way we met the others who told us that there was some bakery. Thank heavens... When we were back I only wanted to lay down a bit - and fell asleep. Practical, actually, because then I did not have to get bored during the whole time, waiting.