Precisely five weeks after our return from Sansibar, Tanzania mainland and Kenya, the Windhund gathered in Gars/Kamp in Lower Austria for dining, catching up and for the inauguration of a drum, a souvenir from Zanzibar…

Otto Lechner on the giant Zanzibari drum, performing some truly Gars-ian rhythms

The drum was a gift to Anne Bennent by a German couple who had visited the Windhund concert at Mtoni Palace. You can imagine that transporting a fragile object of this size is not an easy task when on tour – but thanks to Peter’s and Dismas’ packaging skills the drum survived the trip save and sound.

This food trolley is but one of the charming details of the Bennent-Lechner-residence in Gars/Kamp.

Pirate Felix, wet after a water gun battle with Anton, Anna and Zoe

And now for the nutrition: Rathering than trying to imitate Zanzibar’s magnificent cuisine, which combines Swahili, Arabic and Indian traditions, we focused merely on one of these aspects: Indian.

Hermine Ritter proved, that she is probably the best and definitely the most dedicated chef of Indian cuisine between Stone Town and Stockerau.

A selection of Hermine Ritter's buffet of delights - ther variety of colours is a visual equivalent of the tastes & smells on this plate.

Not to forget Melissa’s delicious tiramisu (by the time we ate it, it was too dark for fotos)…
We did use the rare occasion of the Windhund meeting for discussing the upcoming presentation at Aktionsradius Augarten, however the shared experience of three weeks travelling, exploring, performing in East Africa was not the dominating subject of this evening’s conversations – perhaps it takes a little more time to digest…