Amazing experience singing and laying three wreaths at the Menin Gate Ceremony this evening. So proud of all our choir members. Such a moving way to finish a wonderful tour. These are an incredible group of young people – our little town of Romsey can be very proud of these amazing young ambassadors.
Great final day in Belgium – lovely choir picnic in the grounds of the Passchendaele Memorial Museum, followed by a very moving talk from Fleur on the five young Romsey Men whose names are on the Menin Gate having lost their lives at Passchendaele and the surrounding area. We then visited Tynecot Cemetery – so many young lives lost and even more moving when we realised that many of our older young men are the same age as those who went to war 110 years ago.
Lovely afternoon in Freiburg – German sausage eaten, souvenirs bought – a relaxing time in the sunshine before heading to Reims for our overnight stop before we head to Belgium tomorrow
How lucky are we? This time last year we sang in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice. Today we have just sung in Freiburg Münster – such a fabulous acoustic for Schubert’s Heilig, Heilig, Heilig.
Final breakfast at our wonderful youth hostel in Rottweil, final early morning game of football and all cases loaded onto the coach. Goodbye Rottweil, we’ve loved staying here – off now to sing at Freiburg Munster
Fabulous day at Europa Park!
Another fantastic concert tonight with the wonderful Junior Jazzchor. We so loved performing together as well singing our own set and listening to you – there was even a little bit of Romsey Youth choir dancing along to some of your songs. Thank you so much for your wonderful hospitality, you have definitely inspired us to add a jazz number or 2 to our repertoire next year. We really hope we can share a joint concert together in Romsey in the not too distant future.
A really great workshop with Junior Jazzchor this morning followed by a picnic lunch and trip to Seepark, Freiburg. Rehearsal in the church followed by delicious pizza – we are all very excited about our joint concert tonight
Ready to head off to Freiburg and some freshly made pretzels for lunch. Exciting to have a birthday to celebrate – Happ
What a night! A huge thank you to Stadtkirche Freudenstadt for their wonderful pre-concert hospitality, providing a really delicious sit down tea for 72 people. We then got ourselves ready for our evening concert. The acoustics in the church were incredible, such a privilege to sing in this building, we could all feel just how special this performance was. At the end of the concert we received a standing ovation from a very large appreciative audience. We danced our way back to the coach and were just about to pull away when a man handed a donation to our driver big enough to purchase 72 ice creams and a new piece of music for the choir – so incredibly generous. A huge thank you to everyone who made this evening possible, especially Jörg Sander.
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