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Father Wong and the sleeping-bags
News (October 30, 2002)

To all die-hards (and those who consider to become)

We are experiencing pleasant anticipation of the »die-hards-tour« across europe. Here are the latest news:

Before the opening milonga in Bremen starts, you have the opportunity to meet everyone at a dinner wich is offered by the innkeeper of »Tritonia« for 12,50 euro (optional). If you want to take part, please register including your preference for vegetarian or non-vegetarian food. We will dine at 8 PM and then start the milonga at 9 PM.

Due to an error at our bank we disclosed a wrong account-number in our first announcement, so please check your payments. The correct bank account and sorting code is:

Mark von Rahden
Account-Nr: 1036 9114
Sparkasse Bremen
BLZ 290 501 01

To give you the chance of making contacts with each other for car-sharing or related things (sleeping-bag-compatibility?), we would like to exchange the e-mail-addresses of all definitely checked in (!) participants. Before this, we need your explicit OK until this weekend to do so. Otherwise we will not forward any addresses.

Luckily we could improve our Transnoche in Berlin: We will all stay at the »tangoloft« of Henning Klose. Those who aren't fed up with Tango until then can have a last couple of dances in the morning...

Directions to the »Tritonia« in Bremen:

If you come with the train, use the tram-line 4 or 6 to the stop »Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke«. You are now on the Weser-bridge; turn left into the »St.-Pauli-Deich« and walk a little until you reach the corner of the »Leinestrasse«. The Tritonia is in the house you are facing.

By car, cross the river Weser at »Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke«, after 450 meters turn left into the »Buntentorsteinweg«, then take the next road to the left (»Osterstraße«) and finally the next turn right into the Leinestraße. Tritonia is at the end of this street on the right side.

If you arrive from the other direction, drive through »Friedrich-Ebert-Straße« until you reach the »Buntentorsteinweg«, from there continue as written above. There aren't many parking-lots around there!

with many greetings, Mercedes, Matthias and Mark

P.S. Father Wong of the Augustinian Monastery in Prague justly reminded us of bringing our sleeping-bags and air mattresses. We'd additionally like to remind you of bringing towels, mobile make-up-tables and vanity cases. Swimsuits are also recommended as we will stay in a wellness-establishment at least once for recreation purposes.

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Die-hards on the road
News (October 16, 2002)

The Die-hards will definitively be on the road! There are enough registrations, at the worst we would leave around a dozen seats unoccupied.

Fortunately the gender-ratio is balanced. Up to now die-hards from Amsterdam, Berlin, Bremen, Bologna, Erfurt, Heraklion, Gumpoldskirchen, Halle, Kassel, Leipzig, Munich, Oldenburg, Rostock, Schwegenheim, Warsaw and Wendeburg will participate.

In Amsterdam we will all sleep in the house of a friend, but the hottest transnoche of all will be in the Augustinian monastery St. Tomas in Prague. Nobody needs to convert for this reason, but the friars put themselves out for the local flood-aid.

They will transfer the complete amount of money for the overnight stay as donation for the flood-victims. Feel free to donate as much as you like directly to the monastery.

Please deposit your payments for the share in the costs of the die-hards-tour to our account (Mark von Rahden, Account 1036 9114 at "Sparkasse in Bremen", BLZ 290 501 01) until October 27th 2002.

Two milongas have changed, check the up-to-date tourplan with all addresses and the timetable.

Our bus can stop around Göttingen, Kassel or Hannover on it's way to Bremen, on the way back also near Hamburg.

We would like to thank all local milonga-hosts in advance, without their help this journey wouldn't have been possible. Several people declared us as completely mad, we really don't understand why.

Greetings from Mercedes, Matthias and Mark