Katja Brüdermann's Shiatsu On-Tour Pantomime

We don't need to host or surf to enjoy Couchsurfing. Yesss....we don't even need to get too far from our house!!! Through a CS post on the Mainz(Germany) group I met Katja Brüdermann. She was looking for improvised pantomime performers to accompany the reading of her book:" Von einer, der sich auf den weg macht(Shiatsu on Tour)" at the Wiesbaden Wellness Fair, 16 km from Mainz. Katja likes to travel on her bike and offers shiatsu treatments while on tour. These are photos of our outstanding and funny pantomime performance at the Wiesbaden Wellness Fair! Katja and me reading excerpts out of her book accompanied by our pantomime.





SHIATSU ON-TOUR PANTOMIME and READING
"This is my shiatsu team!" said Katja Brüdermann while reading excerpts out of her book


Scenario: Hippie Festival. "I wonder whether I fit in into this crazy pack of tantra massaging hippies....."







Hippie Music Festival: The shiatsu team is building a yurt. Putting together the small parts or getting tangled up. Similar to shiatsu



At the end all the tiny bits and pieces form a well-rounded structure. That's what shiatsu is all about:-)







Treating a stressed woman with a noisy, sandwich smacking family in the background



Treating a hippie couple with sore legs after dancing




Man with excruciating backpain coming in after midnight


That's not yet one hour mein Fräulein! Don't wanna make more money??











Grrrrr...biking through Mecklenburg's bumpy roads and sand dunes. I continue my tour with heavy luggage on the worst trail since ever...........





Finally I have found a room to sleep in.......hooray!!!

Dumpster diving with Talley and Callum

Callum MacDonald had a very unique request. He wished to join into dumpster diving and to live in a squat. While I was unable to provide the latter, it was great fun to go on a dumpster diving tour.

My goal is not to promote dumpster diving for fun because this may result in shops locking up their trash bins and needy people will have no opportunity to find food. Callum has been an old friend and therefore I included him in our hunt. However, normally I don't do it with surfers that I have never met before. It is hard to imagine that organic super markets throw away such a huge amount of products. Callum and me had a gourmet organic meal of packaged German potato pancakes(Kartoffelpuffer) and a sealed jar of awesome apple/mango mark with some bacon from my fridge.

Dumpster diving is different in different countries. In Germany it is officially prohibited and considered theft. However, people don't bother to call the police and the police doesn't take much action either. In most conservative cities in Germany, large supermarkets tend to cover and lock their trash bins which they do in Mainz. Wiesbaden is less strict especially the smaller shops and we may need to look for small organic supermarkets. Giant supermarkets like Aldi or Nettokom calculate the purchase of their goods very carefully, so nearly nothing is left and thrown in the dumpster. It is the smaller organic shops which we have to look for because they don't calculate their purchase professionally. So we just have to remember that it is us who have to pay for their lack of professionality.

Tips for Germany:
1. Come when it is dark, preferably when it's colder after October
2. Carefully search the bins and tip them all over. Put them back in order and don't leave any of your footprints.
3. The foul goods or trash are purposely put on top as to discourage dumpster divers but at the bottom you will find all gems.
4. Look for small organic shops





Prepare to dive deep into the bin





Callum MacDonald surfing my couch. Dumpster diving in Wiesbaden with Talley

Ronneburg medieval market

" Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?"

"Oh Lady Queen, thou, O Queen, art the fairest of all" Mirror broken, don't believe it;-P
Patricia, a CS member, walking on stilts
Me in medieval lady attire

sword fighting

Clown/fire juggling





A wonderful castle ruine is the Ronneburg Museum Castle in Hesse, 180 km north of Frankfurt. A beautiful location in the middle of breathtaking mountainous views. It is the right setting for a medieval market where beautiful costumes and the middle ages come back to life.