In Bonn

I am in Bonn with my friend Christoph, currently dancing and moving my arse to some very cool dance music which he has acssembled. He has a awesom music collection, some great tunes, especially of the dancing genre. Would love to have his collection

Bonn is an interesting city. Very down to earth and small like which is weird as it was the capital for 50 years and yet retains this small feel to it.

Went to a party last night of one of Christoph's mates, called Stephan who is a really cool and down to earth guy. His band are a jazz/funk outfit of ten, 8 guys and 2 girls. His a very easy going guy and very friendly. The bar easily resembles many bars in the UK except that everyone seems to smoke in Germany and there was no air conditiong which made the place very very hot and humid. Also met some of Christophs mates who are very chilled and hippy like.

Bonn is an interesting city as on the outskirts it looks so nice and well organised but there is definitely a dark underside to the place. Christoph lives in a really nice apartment in what looks like a great part of the city. But there is a really rough alleyway which goes underneath the railway and you need to go through to reach the otherside. The place stinks of urine and is so graffitied, but what is weird is the drug use in the place. When you walk through the alleyway you pass at least one person on the floor who is injecting themselves! Call me small minded and maybe a little naive but i have never seen this in person and it was a real thought-provoking experience. I mean here are people sitting in an alleyway injecting themselve in a horrible horrible place. You would think that they might be dangerous or 'bad' people but they are either to ashamed of themsevles or more likely out there heads to confront you.

Bonn has certainly been an experience and its been great to see Christoph as he is a top guy and a great friend. Next stop is Heidelberg tomorrow.