why - my dear husband wanted to know when confronted with the idea that i would spend a weekend away in halle/saale - why is good ol' andy not celebrating his 50th birthday in new york city? it's conveniently located, cheap to get to and, best of all - you get a direct flight...
reader! you don't want to get bored with the saga that followed. suffice to say that andy's birthday present - the good man is 50 after all - shrank considerably as i attempted to make a booking for his town. not sure exactly what i had in mind - a nice louis vuitton travel set with four large suitcases or a voucher for three suits at dior homme, but the travel set became a small key ring holder and the three suits turned into a silk tie in the sales and eventually even that was out of range and andy has a bottle of shampoo now as i finally got hold of some complex business class arrangements via munich and frankfurt. she's so caring i can hear you mutter - true, but the question remains: how good's the party?? 
first rate is all i can say - great people (all the usual suspects!), great venue great dancing and great atmosphere - andy clearly didn't get a few other birthday presents this year. as with the better part of saturday spent in the air and an early start for a long, long night there was not much time left to actually get a look at halle but after a lavish breakfast on sunday midday we managed to get a glimpse of the market place, marienkirche, roter turm and moritzburg - all incredibly beautiful and very sensitively restaured. a pleasure to see and definitely a place to come back to. after a long round of saving. or moving the lot to new york...
(will post some pics if and when others send some as i managed to forget my camera)
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