I am in the bistro section of the train en route to the Zurich airport. It's a bit shaky in here, not sure how long I will last typing! Not long, it turns out. I get a little motion sickness, a little queasy sometimes, which sometimes works for me (ahem... SHOTGUN!) but mostly it's not ideal! I was going to tell you (pre-dizziness) that I enjoy the 'Bistro' section in the train, because I can sit at a table and (depending on where I am going and what time it is) I can enjoy a coffee or a glass of wine and on the rare occasion I have met some very interesting people though mostly people tend to keep to themselves so there's a lot of daydreaming out the windows. At this very moment, however, the train is only a memory and now I am 37000 feet up above the world, flying in direction Sweden! We will be landing in less than an hour and I will make my way to Stockholm city centre for the first time. It's not often that I take a trip without my guitar and equipment, not often that I travel without the goal to play/share my music. It feels pretty good to be traveling light, I gotta say! This trip is all in the name of my dear girl and fellow singer songwriter, Christina a.k.a RYKKA. Rykka is representing Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest. And boy oh boy this whole thing has been a wild ride indeed! I wrote about her a few posts ago, a small interview if you recall?? I was there when she won for Switzerland and hopefully when she wins for the world!! Haha. You have to dream big, right?? Her song "The Last of Our Kind" has been with me for days!! Can you say EARWORM???? Fingers crossed!!!

Hello and Happy Wednesday to all of you readers out there!

Thanks for stopping by for your weekly dose of the happenings in the "Land of Lindsay"

Perhaps this is your first visit? Glad to have you and I hope you will return! I am just a girl who likes to write; blogs, songs, letters and more, and here, you will find a little of life insights, from my point of view or sometimes something akin to a diary entry! If you are looking for MUSIC; you can find LOTS of that here too. Just head over to the LISTEN tab and you can listen away...

In the meantime, people often ask me what it's like playing in Switzerland! Well, some gigs are, of course better than others, just like anywhere else, but this past weekend, it was quite a Lovely and unique place that we played in, and I thought I would share some photos.

This is Timo, a.k.a Timothy Jaromir. He is a Swiss Singer & Songwriter who has some great tunes! Check him out! He asked me to sing with him this past weekend in the small and Lovely town of Grüningen. I was amazed at the sights of this town! Quaint would be a good word for it! Here are a couple of photos of some of the houses around..... Quite "typical" to what we North Americans would envision when thinking of the Lovely country of Switzerland.

I was lucky to arrive at the right time, when the "Schloss (castle) Museum" was still open. I had a gander and was easily amused at what I found!

Eventually it was time to play some music! We had a wonderful time playing as part of the "Grüningen Sessions" which is a night of music that happens about eight or nine times a year. The session of sounds takes place in various settings around the sweet town and on this particular night, it was in the Wy Galerie, and we were surrounded by wine! And no, the wine did not stop flowing! Thanks, Susan! Haa. And a big thanks goes out to Caroline Edwards, a brit who decided to bring music and culture to this little town, a few years back. We musicians LOVE people like you! It is always great to play to a town of music Lovers. And thanks to Timo for asking me to sing along. It is always a pleasure.

Thanks for having us and this will most certainly NOT be the last visit to Grüningen :)

-one weeks later-

Yesterday I found out that I WILL be returning, to the Wy Galerie as part of Grüningen Sessions on Saturday October 1st, 2016!! Right on, eh??)

xoxo

Oi! Sweden!

A Grüningen Session

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