The melody C-G-Ab (Cm-Fm) in TGV pounds the alarm

06 07 2022
I think I was excited on the 8th day of the tour. That's because the TGV, a French high-speed
train, will take me from Brussels South to Grenoble via Lyon. It was exciting for me to crossthe border from Belgium to France and look out the window, and I was so happy to get in aﬁrst-class vehicle.
About 40 minutes after departure, I attempted to drink water when the TGV was about toarrive at Lille the next stop, looked up at the shelf above me, and found my trunk but nobackpack. Ahh! Did it happen again?! The nightmare of six years ago has come back to mylife, but based on the lessons learned, I looked for nearby vehicles.
Although it's not in the luggage storage at the rear, I found my backpack and water on theshelf in the next vehicle I was relieved for a moment though, as soon as I checked inside,
there was no MacBook and power adapter. And only the cash in the wallet has been stolen.
Oh my Buddha!
While some people put locked trunks on the shelves, most hold unlocked bags at their feet. I
should put mine like those !!! I thought there was a thief somewhere in this vehicle, but I canonly speak French as "En anglais s'il vous plait (English please)” and the mental shock mademe freeze.
Thankfully, there is wiﬁ on the TGV, so I could have time to avoid any secondary damages
before I arrived at the transfer station, Lyon. I hesitated a little whether to go to the railway
police or not, but I just decided to continue my journey to Grenoble where I had a reservation
at the hotel.
After arriving at the hotel, I contacted the agent to discuss the 2 remaining performances on
the next day and decided to sleep, however I had no appetite and woke up every 2 hours. I
came up with a plan to perform live with an emergency sound ﬁle in case the PC breaks down
during the live, and a plan to return home to restore the PC.

07 07 2022
If I had a backup on iCloud, I might even buy a MacBook and restore it, but since I only had abackup on my home HDD, I had to go back to Tokyo once, and my agent arranged a ﬂight forme. Then I looked for a PCR test site near the hotel.
And in the evening, a Grenoble promoter took me to the police where I could report the theft.
We were almost treated like "if you want to report a theft, please come again tomorrow" bythe police at ﬁrst, but I was so thankful that the local promoter insisted. If I had been alone, itwould have been impossible.
"I got my computer stolen in TGV by my carelessness and I couldn't perform live, so I'm sosorry Grenoble people!" After posting this on SNS, I recovered a little mentally to eat, and felt
strong sleepiness. I never imagined returning to Japan once in the middle of the tour.

08 07 2022
It took about an hour from Grenoble to Lyon Airport by bus, and less than three hours fromLyon to Istanbul Airport. If I can transfer there, I should be able to return to Japan, but
because my PCR test results were in French and English, Turkish Airlines denied my boarding.
Oh my Buddha again!
It couldn't be helped, so if I get out of the airport once and ask to change to the ﬂight, itseems that there is only the next ﬂight on the next day. After taking another PCR test inJapanese format, I decided to sleep in the airport's only hotel, Yotel. The corridors and rooms
were lit like spaceships and I lost the feeling where I was.

09 07 2022
I didn't notice it the day before, but it seems that there is a diﬀerence in the character ofairport staﬀ who check documents at the boarding gate, and there are some who check very
strictly and others who don't. Is that dependent on them if we can board or not ?
10 07 2022
I entered the contents of the documents into the Japanese application called MySOS, so I
could board and enter the country very smoothly. Last fall, there were some problems suchas not being able to access it from overseas, so I didn't have a good impression about thiskind of oﬃcial applications, but this time I could take advantage of it.

11 07 2022
I got the same model as the stolen MacBook in Akihabara, restored it from a backup, andchecked its operation. But after restoring it, I felt extremely sleepy. I know I have jet lag, but Iseem to have a 24 hour wake up and 12 hour sleep cycle.
12 07 2022
After the basic operation check after the restoration and the live rehearsal, I ﬁnally feel alive.
After this, I hope to get on the ﬂight to Glasgow on the weekend, do another PCR test, do alive show, go to sleep, wake up, and get on the ﬂight home safely with a negative PCR test
result.

13 07 2022
I was careful not to look at my cell phone in the tram or subway, but when I think about it, I
was wrong to relax in the TGV. Most stations don't even have gates, so I learned the lesson
that no matter what kind of class you have on the train, you should keep the same vigilance
as on the streets.
14 07 2022
In retrospect, it is possible that the thieves were a pickpocket family including kids andgrandmother, although it might be a bad thing to be suspicious of the family members whosat around me. There was a time when the grandmother put my tray down from the aisle, that
may have been the signal.

25 07 2022
After the live performance in the UK on 16th July, I was able to go back to my country safely
as planned, and participate in the event in Japan after. I'm so sorry for Grenoble so much!
And thank you all for every support. When I travel from now on, I will always ring thedeparture chime of C-G-Ab of TGV in my mind.
Soichi Terada