During the last months I accompanied my confetti loving friends audio stunts & mahumba. If you don’t know them yet or just want to know something about their passion for music you should have a look at this artist portrait.
Artist Portrait: audio stunts & mahumba from Florian Junk.
Lights fading away,
like dreams of the childhood,
clearing the way,
for the gloom of the unknown.
One day we had the idea to go camping in Denmark again. Due to the fact that we only had four days spare time and wanted to surf we decided to spend our time in Hvide Sande. Hvide Sande belongs to the Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality and is located in midtjylland. Although the city has only about 3.100 inhabitants it houses Denmark‘s fifth biggest fishing port.
Because of the fact that the connection between the Ringkøbingfjord and the ocean was nearly closed by alluvial deposits Hvide Sande and the Hivde Sande channel had been built in the 1940-ies. A nice side-effect of the channel with its water gate and flap bridge is that the lock and the dune create a wonderful shore which abets waves – or in a nutshell in contrast to Rømø you‘re able to surf in Hvide Sande. Booyaka.
If you haven‘t been surfing yet or maybe need some gear you‘re able to find everything you need at the two Westwind stores and the Westwind Surf Café. Especially the cafe is well located for surfing or stand up paddles – SUP – and the girls there are very helpful. If you want to head more north of Denmark for surfing you can inter alia go to Klitmøller where the forth westwind store is located but that‘s another story.
If you‘re more into windsurfing, kite surfing or just swimming the Westwind Hvide Sande Nord and Westwind Hvide Sande Syd are your point to be. Fortunately Syd is also next to the Hvide Sande camping site where we spent our days too. The camp itself isn‘t as huge as the one on Rømø for example but it‘s clean, the owners are nice people, they are able to speak german – in fact a lot of tourists aren‘t able to speak danish or english wherefore german speaking hosts aren‘t that bad – and it isn‘t that expensive. From our tent to the dunes it was about 500m wherefore we decided to spend there as much time as possible. We even had a dinner there accompanied by sunset. Believe me that doesn‘t even rudimentary sound as good as it has been.
If the water is too cold for you you‘re also able to visit the local swimming bath or the Fiskeriets Hus, a 400m² huge ocean museum. If you may imagine the fish is damn fresh and very delicious so grab as much as you are able too. One day before we returned to Bremen we also visited Ringkøbing and the sand sculpture festival in Søndervig.
I‘d never seen so huge sand sculptures before and also wasn‘t able to rebuild one in the local playground up to now. Before we headed back to Germany we also visited Esbjerg. Unfortunately we only spent there about two hours so I‘m not really able to tell you much about the city. Nevertheless they serve good coffee at the Dronning Louise so maybe you want to give it a try too.
All in all we had a wonderful time in Hvide Sande – that‘s also the reason why we came back only about three weeks later but that‘s another story.
Finally it is snowing again and a lot of resorts are preparing for the beginning of the white season 2013/14. If water is just blue and fluid or white and frozen and I’m love with this wonderful element. Unfortunately I have to deal with the gray version called rain a lot. Nevertheless I think it’s a good moment to show you some shoots I took at the end of season 2012/13. Have fun.
Nearly one year ago we had the wonderful idea to make an one week road trip through Scotland. We started in Edinburgh, had a look at Glasgow, did the Ben Nevis summit and then headed to Aberdeen.
After a short night at Morag’s Lodge we passed the home of Nessie and the Loch Ness Visitor Centre before we reached the Glenfiddich Distillery. The distillery is located near Dufftown the birth place of its founder William Grant. If you’re a bit into liquors and the UK you might recognize his family name inter alia from Grants whisky, Hendrick’s gin, the Balvenie, Tullamore Drew or Sailor Jerry.
Beside the delicious Glenfiddich whisky I definitely recommend to have a meal at the MALT BARN RESTAURANT. To be honest I there had one of the best soups of my entire life – kind regards to the chef. After the three hour lasting nice short trip we headed forward to Aberdeen where we spent our night at the Ibis Aberdeen centre hotel located at the harbour. Including the night we only stayed about 14 hours in Aberdeen therefore I’m not able to tell you much about the city. Nevertheless I’m able to recommend wagamama located in the unionsquare shopping centre where we bought some delicious asian food before we ate it rockstar like in our hotel room.
The next day we had to get back to our starting point. By fluke we saw a roadsign to Dunnottar Castle. The first proofs document something like a castle in the early 13th century and it’s definitely worth to have a look at it.
Later that day we arrived at Edinburgh airport where we returned our hired car before we took the bus to the city and our hotel The Ballantrae Hotel. The weather was perfect therefore we had been able to enjoy the city from its best side. Beside the one o’clock gun at Edinburgh castle we had a look at the historic centre, several museums and last but not least Calton Hill.
Just before we went to bed on our last day we inter alia bought some scones and jam for breakfast. Due to the fact that we woke up a bit late we had breakfast during a bus trip to the airport. Right there we stuffed the rest of the jam back into our luggage and ran to the airplane including a short visit at the duty. Unfortunately the scottish customs officer hadn’t been much into jam wherefore he stopped us for fear of explosive substance. It’s too bad about the tasty jam but fortunately the officer gave rein to us so we had been able to catch our flight just in time.
Thanks Scotland for the warm welcome maybe we’ll meet again soon.
In August 2013 Ballantine‘s Finest received a new package design which underlines its quality, tradition and modern zeitgeist. As one of the biggest Scotch Whisky brands of the world and also number one in europe Ballantine‘s this time calls attention by its new slogan „Folge Deinem Geschmack“ (Follow your taste).
To celebrate the big B‘s success they arranged a wonderful club tour. On 26th of September, 14th of November and 12th of December Ballantine‘s Finest becomes Bremen‘s Finest. At these three thursdays from 6 pm on you‘ll be able to sound the bell for the weekend one day earlier at the well-known SOHO Club.
Beside the tasty Whisky with its notes of chocolate, apples and vanilla you can expect an exclusive party, well-known DJs and a lot of specials you‘re able to choose on your on at www.folgedeinemgeschmack.de.
For the kick-off party on september 26th with the wonderful Frankfurt based Soul and House DJ Julian Smith I‘m going to raffle a +1 guest list place. Just become a Facebook fan of funkjunge and leave a comment here until tuesday 24th 6pm CEST – Good luck.
This is a sponsored post in friendly cooperation with Pernod Ricard Deutschland.