music for heart and soul

Yesterday I was lucky. Lucky not to stay in as I usually do, but instead take up Jools' offer to accompany her to a spontaneous concert/busking session/whatever of Town of Saints and Ian Fisher at Stoned. Since I hadn't been to the pub in ages, I welcomed the opportunity. Aaah, the joys of unemployment. 
Even though they just played a quite short set, it was brilliant to listen to. Unfortunately for me, the lighting in those dingy hellholes is frankly shocking, so the pictures are fuzzy and grainy, but pictures nonetheless. 
Just listen to their music online, dance around or try to catch them live somewhere near you. And if you're in Berlin tonight, go and see them play right away! 
I say, anyone who sells their music on vinyl even while only doing small sessions deserves to have money thrown at them...

Storm approaching

On our first night in Sassnitz, the local harbour festival was still in full swing.  They wanted to finish on a high note with a special fireworks display. Unfortunately a quickly approaching thunder storm didn't want this to happen. Of course we got wet on our way to the holiday flat. Kinda started a pattern there.

Stony shore

A different holiday day and a walk along a different beach...not much more happened. Well, I had coffee and apfelstrudel, alas no picture of it.

Holiday wildlife

These are cormorants...

Also the cormorant was the disguise used by Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost. Satan sat on top of the Tree of Life as a cormorant in his first attempt to deceive and tempt Eve.

Guess we scared them off.

Don't trust what you read on the internet.

On another one of our holidaying days we went to Kap Arkona, they have lighthouses there. Near to those was supposed to be the "traditional fishing village" of Vitt. Or so the tourist information website said. Traditional my ass. Only because they had some thatched roofs and only 72 inhabitants it was nowhere near traditional. When I hear traditional and village in one sentence, I'm inclined to expect something like the wonderful Kerry Bog Village. And that was definitely not what we found there. Motorboats, modern cars parked in neatly fenced in front yards. With ugly new metal fences. A shabby little cafe containing two grumpy employees that probably didn't get any new clothes or style advice since the wall came down and so on. I know moan, moan, moan, but honestly, this was definitely not what we expected.

Day out in Binz.

More holiday pictures, we took a trip on a boat from the small harbour town of Sassnitz to the fairly posh seaside resort Binz. What did we do there? We walked around, took lots of pictures and hand fed some sparrows (photos of these still to come). The weather was not very summerly for a day in Mid-July, but we still had some ice cream.

beach chairs and a girl's bum

more beach chairs

While on holiday...

...I've been annoying people with my camera, of course.

looking at the harbour from the hideous new bridge

running from the approaching storm

You never know whom you might meet in the forest...

...the other day I met a real fairy. To tell the truth...I'm actually related to her.