The Viking Sky
This was my first experience on Viking Cruises and unusual way to start as no flight was necessary to reach the ship. Instead I caught three trains. The Sky was moored in The Thames, in my good-ole home town of London. I got two trains from Suffolk to Stratford and then caught the DLR to Cutty Sark Station, south of the river. It’s always amusing to see the reactions of other passengers when I board with two suitcases, two guitar cases and a backpack! What must they think of me?! I’m also glad the lift was working from the underground… It was lunchtime on a Wednesday morning in July. Hot weather. very hot weather. So, after a quick pit-stop at Pret-a-Manger for a coffee (and a pastry), I made the short walk passed the famous Cutty Sark clipper ship to the pier…
My Guitar Heroes
When you achieve something and think that you finally arrived, there always seems to be one extra hurdle to get across the finish line. At least that's my experience. When I decided to be a professional guitarist at age 19 I imagined it would be hard to make a living as a musician however I underestimated how hard it is. If I could go back and tell my younger self what the future holds I'd make a lot of changes. I'm sure some of you feel the same, right?! Firstly, I would've taken the opportunity to get my A-level in Music, gone to university and studied to have a better grounding in my subject. Instead, naïvely, I thought I could learn all I needed to by myself. I bought many books on Music, jazz play alongs, I listened to as much music as I could in different genres I took my teachers advice of working with as many different musicians as possible.