“Yes, this is me and I’m half as stern as I appeared back in Victorian London (14 February 1895 to be precise). How did I get there?

February in Poland. Minus temperatures day and night. The sky is a huge grey slab of stone. From the window of my hotel room I watch the snow falling. On the other side of a six-lane urban freeway I can see the fresh ghost of a failed shopping mall, full of emptiness, teeming with desolation. In the distance, between that glowering monument to misjudgement and the lonely bus station, hulks a large square building, once a factory, now proudly displaying the words 'Progresja Music Zone', writ very large on the outside. What am I doing here?

In which the Camel train picks up keyboard maestro Peter Jones and heads off to the Far East.

Blog written in 2012 documenting the special one-off appearance of the Bamboo Pearl Orchestra as part of the Olympic Games celebrations in London.