Day 2

Up and 6:30, shower and breakfast. 

Breakfast insists on consisting entirely of ham, cheese and roles. I feel like I’m on some refined hybrid version of the Atkins diet where I eat a ham and cheese role for breakfast, one for lunch, and a proper dinner. 

We had two shows in the same venue today. After negotiating the parking of the van we set up. The pupils were incredibly friendly and I think that both shows were our best so far. The space was an old gymnasium and as such we had to deal with echo but we seemed to be getting used to that after relatively few days!

I now feel that we are well and truly on tour. I am currently in the back of the van and Kelly is having her first time on the Austrian highway. The weather is not so good today- so I hope we arrive at a fun town to keep our spirits and our energies high. 

Doing two shows in a morning is such a bizarre concept. I seem to reach the climax of my day around 10am and then spend the rest of the day coming down. We all seem to be getting over this by having a nice beer and a good meal in the evenings, but we have a lot of early starts so we’re watching the clock a lot. 

Thankfully we have a lot of Saturdays off so we will be able to let our hair down fully and show Austria what the two Essex girls and the two Berkshire boys are made of!