Today we said goodbye to Frankfurt. For sure one of the nicest hotel stays of the tour and a great town for a 'hub'. After a morning swim and a little bit of sunshine we checked out in the early afternoon for our final run to the airport here. A bit of a hold up as we arrive during a shift change at the General Aviation terminal. We wait for the next shift to arrive as the current one doesn't want to help us as it would incur going beyond the 2:00 cutoff. Soon we're all aboard the plane and Alex, our hostess serves us a light salad on what is only a short hop to Oberhausen. We're met when we arrive by Mannfred's team of drivers. Mannfred is the main man at 'Stars and cars' but always seems to have the bad luck with traffic. The last time we saw him was in Stockholm where we spent 2 hours plus in the cars in traffic. Today there was a crash on the autobahn so we were crawling once again. Not too bad a Mannfred used the satnav to it's full effect and figured out a detour.



Pretty soon we're at the gig to find Kerry outside the backstage area taking a well earned few minutes in the brilliant sunshine with his book.





I took these pics from a small hole in the back-cloth whilst I was offstage during Sultans of Swing. The band is reduced to a four piece for this one and Matt, John and I tend to wander off to the dressing room for liquid refreshment. I grabbed the camera this evening and snapped a couple of shots. Below, I'm playing the organ with my right hand during Local Hero, hence the blurred image. I wanted to take a shot as the lights turn on the audience.



A few close-ups from the musicians' perspective.





John and Matt model the new 'Stars and Cars' tour jackets courtesy of Mannfred Frank.



After show it's another runner back to Cologne airport for the flight into Prague. That's 4 cities today. Frankfurt, Cologne, Oberhausen and Prague. We all check in to the hotel where we will spend the next four nights. A brief cuppa PG with Danny and Richard,  few laughs and a bit of music and off to bed.