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Friday 9 January 2009

On the road

Peter Phillips travels between music festivals

Of course one gets tired, but I wager that we would all be a lot less tired if the local taxi and bus companies took us at our word about when we need to arrive at our destinations. They always know better and have a raft of reasons why it is necessary to leave much earlier: it is Monday, there are roadworks, it is likely to rain. For us this simply means hours less in bed and hours more among the living dead. The real reason is that universally these drivers care more about when they finish their day than when they start it. Leaving Evora for Lisbon airport I worked out that 0630 would be early enough to make the check-in, yet something in the air told me I wasn’t being listened to. As a precaution I unplugged the phone and put extra sound-proofing around the door. The driver arrived at 0500.

The search for concert venues and audiences will continue through the next weeks. Next up is Palestrina, a hillside town near Rome. There is a better-than-usual chance I shall have the right composer’s music in my bag for that one.

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