And finally after a long sleep last night, didn't sleep much the night before and came home at 04.15am in the morning after the show, I will add something. At 12.00 I quit working for that day and drove to Paris.

First of all: it was not allowed to film, I asked Pete Mackay, and he said not allowed. Pictures were allowed, but no flash. The room where the meet & greet was was horrible, no atmosphere, no lights, very empty with a couple of the cheapest tables and chairs I've ever seen.
So all pictures are blurred ;-(( But I share them anyway, so you can see what it's like. See the link:
http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff238/ingridswing/Meet%20n%20Greet%20Paris%209%20april%202008/

Sorry I don't have better ones ;-((

As Nelly described: Mark and the band came in: Danny only shook hand with Nelly and me, Mark walked all the way around the room and shook everyones hand. There were 17 people, and some productionpeople like Pete Mackay and Paul Crockford.
The band started playing some songs, I don't know them, but it was nice to see and hear something complete different from MK's own songs.
After a couple of songs MK stopped playing and started signing. He started with the big group of 13 that looked like businesspeople (there were tourbooks brought in for them in plastic bags and mark signed them for them). Then the other 2 fans and then Nelly and mine. We both had the tourbook signed by Mark, Nelly gave him a bottle of wine from her region. I asked him for a picture and he said yes. You can see that the picture isn't very good, but the memory is image
The other members of the band continued to play some songs while Mark was walking around. After that almost everyone from the band was gone, including Mark. Guy and Richard stayed a little longer, Richard signed the tourbook as well. We did have a short chat with Guy, he also signed our tourbooks and I already had a signed and numbered copy of Inamorata. I asked him to dedicate it to me and he kindly did so! He even went to the dressingroom to get the same pen as he did the original signing with.

I thanked him for all the work he is doing for us fans and he smiled and said that "it's fun to do".

After this we found our way out of the catacombs and walked back to the mainentrance. We missed almost everything from the supportact, but that's fine ;-) We had a very good reason for that!
The show in Paris was excellent, great atmosphere, excellent sound, same setlist as the first night in Amsterdam.

After the show we had a drink on a terrace .... no it was very cold (9 degrees Celsius), but the pubs were loaded and we found a place outside.
After that I drove Martina to her hotel (not easy to access with all the ramps, we drove wrong the first time, even with the navigationsystem working well ;-)) Then I went on with Nelly to bring her to her friends where she stayed, middle of Paris Centre. See nice picture of the Opera in Paris, I took the picture in my car through the window. Then at 01.30 am I started to drive home. At 04.15 am I was at home, 2 speedingtickets later and a little tired but happy ;-))

Nelly, thanks for the beautiful night in Paris, also thanks to Martina, Jean Yves, Elian, David and all others who I met and had dinner with.

Love
Ingrid

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