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Amsterdam / Rotterdam

ZEICHNER-Log book 03.08.2000
Okay, Amsterdam broke our neck. If you talk
to a pedestrian in Amsterdam you are
classified into one of the following:
a) poor drug-addicted street artist
b) poor drug-addicted drug-dealer
c) poor drug-addicted opinion poll conducter.
Sure, it could be worse, but...
1. we don't have any fuel left 2. we don't have
dutch money 3. no parking without paying 4.
where will we sleep? (we slept in the car)

Den Haag (Scheweningen)

ZEICHNER-Log book 04.08.2000
"There was this moment we sat in basket
chairs directly on the shore. Soft wind
caresses our skin. We blink into the blue sky
and think "we are the first, definitely the first,
who ever do a pyrography eurotour." A nice
moment.

Tauschhandelbilanz:
3x fritjes 2x satey 1x chips spezial 7x beer 2x salad 1x cola 1x wine 2x cocktails

Bruxelles

ZEICHNER-Log book 06.08.2000
The first city we have to get along with foreign
languages only. what a challenge. We are
invited to an expensive tourist restaurant for
a salad by the boss - he needs to have
somebody sitting in his restaurant so that
the tourists don't think something might be
wrong as nobody is sitting there...
we draw his staff, the bartering flourishes.
We draw until midnight, then off to Paris.

bartering's balance sheet:
2x Ricard / 4x Guiness / 2x lager / 2x Salata frutti di Mare / 2 x wine

Paris

ZEICHNER-Log book 07.08.2000
The tourists in Paris are over-loaded.
We sell five pictures on the Montmartre,
then four times that many on the fair.
The competition with the established
portrait artists we clearly win.

bartering's balance sheet:
600 F money, 2 red wine, 1 crèpe

St. Michel

ZEICHNER-Log book 0.08.2000
A nice police man tells us that we are not
allowed to work here. we leave, driving along
a queue of tourist cars of 6 kilometers length,
approximately the same as 2650 Francs
income...

bartering's balance sheet: negative

Lorient

ZEICHNER-Log book 0.08.2000
We sell 3 portraits in 150 minutes. we don't
have money left, the fuel is expensive, the
French don't know sparklers at all, and they
hate trash-culture. We do consider to break
down the tour right there.

bartering's balance sheet:
5 big Breton beer, 1 bottle water, 620 F

Le Puy

ZEICHNER-Log book 0.08.2000
We cross France with our last available
money (from Brussels - our only credit card
was eaten in a fuel station thing and we now
really don't have any back-up at all any more).
Emergency stop in Le Puy. During a testing
hour we sell exactly 2 portraits - one out of
pity, the other to a drunk. We have 80 Francs
left to reach Avignon. The strain of the last
days can be read off of our faces.

bartering's balance sheet: 50 F

Avignon

ZEICHNER-Log book 0.08.2000
Avignon was better. Nice people. For the first
time our spirits are lifted a little. The only
place we find to sleep in/next to the tour
bus is a cemetery.

bartering's balance sheet:
4 x beer, 2 x salad, 320 F

Avignon (2)

Nizza

ZEICHNER-Log book 0.08.2000
Again it is grossly pathetic. We remember
the peak income levels of the EXPO, Goethe's
birthday party in Weimar, the Hackesche
Höfe... and wake up in Nizza. At least we do
get something to eat by bartering.

bartering's balance sheet:
3 x beer, 1 x bread, 1 Henna-Tattoo, 1 x Kronenbourg, 250 F money