Last night I returned from a wonderful 4-day road trip with my friend Judith. In Germany it was a long weekend due to the holiday Himmelfahrt.
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| Judith and I in a “Strandkorb” [photo by Judith via self timer] |
It was a bit of “Fahrt ins Blaue” (trip into the blue), which means we didn’t have our destination all planned). We ended up visiting my family in the beautiful Haseldorfer Marsch, spent a day on the beach of the North Sea in St. Peter-Ording, attended the Münzviertel Street Fair, organized by my dad, Günter Westphal, and concluded three days of relaxation with a night of running around the Hamburg harbor and St. Pauli district with friends, which led to the classic sunrise Fischbrötchen (roll with fish) at the Hamburger Fischmarkt just after sunrise.
A special thank you to my mom, Erik and Tina for all their wonderful hospitality!
Needless to say it was a wonderful experience, which also included a lot of driving and music-listening.
Here are a few fitting songs from the coast…
“Es gibt im Leben viele Zeiten, das hier sind die guten”
[literally: there are a lot of times in life, these are the good]
– from “Im Garten von Gettis” by Philip Poisel
“Tag am Meer” [day at the sea] (unplugged) by Die Fantastischen Vier
“Tag am Meer” (official trippy video and album version) by Die Fantastischen Vier
“Boatwatcher” by Cara Beth Satalino (whom Judith and I saw recently playing with her band Witches together with forgetters at Schokoladen)
“Nordisch by Nature” [Northern by Nature] by Fettes Brot
it was THE perfect trip! Thank you so much, Luci & Family, Erik & Tina, everybody & everything!
Hey Judith!
It was the perfect trip. And it looks like we got back to Berlin just in time for 4 (four) days of rain…
xL