Germany

Went to a German 'disco' last night. It was basically supposed to be a rock club, although the music went from bass-y techno remixes of boring British chart songs, to early noughties indie-rock, to emo, then some metal, lots of nu-metal, a little dance and then just a bizarre selection of anything with German lyrics. I didn't really understand why they played so much British/American music for most of the night because the majority of the people there just stood around the edges of the club looking bored until the German music started to come on.

One wonderful thing about the place was that I have never felt quite so slim or well dressed in a club. Almost everyone was very large, everyone was wearing jeans and trainers, and most people were dressed as though they were given £20 and left to run free in Bay Trading for half an hour. To be fair to them, if this is the way that everyone dresses here then it is me who was badly dressed from their perspective, but if they did think this then they were wrong, because I looked great.

I'd never been in a club before where smoking was allowed inside. It's very odd when in most of the clubs I have been to you are not even allowed to carry drinks onto the dance floor because it's dangerous, to be dodging lit cigarettes while you dance.

The night was interesting anyway. My sister and I talked to lots of new people. Almost everyone remarked on Robin Hood when I mentioned that I live in Nottingham except one boy who said, "oh that is where the little statues are, which you paint and there is a game." I'm glad that Nottingham can be appreciated for more than being the home of Robin Hood, but being the home of Warhammer 40000 would not usually be the first thing I would think of.