Watery Munich

What's the most important part of a city trip in midsummer? Water!

So at 34°C, everyone is looking for a refreshment:


be it humans:



or animals:



And even if you just want to look at it:

Stony-faced in Belgium

Faces are an interesting photo motive, be it human, animal or, like in this case, stone.

So here a little tour of Belgium's eternal faces:

Bruges:





Leuven:

Wackennnnnn!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry! I'm sorry for having deserted my blog for the last two weeks .. but: I have a good excuse which is also the theme for this blog. From 2nd to 6th August, I was at the world's biggest heavy metal festival, Wacken Open Air!!! \m/

And although I didn't take my big camera(s) to the actual festival area (not because it would have been dangerous but because I couldn't have headbanged or been in a mosh pit while holding it... or even flirted for that matter ;-).

So anyway, I had my phone and my little Pixi (Nikon Coolpix) and want to show you some impressions in and around the concert. I didn't take pictures of the bands and gigs - same reason as above.

Here it is, Heavy Metal Town aka Wacken:


That's what you see first and foremost - the Wacken Logo in different versions:



"Hochalberne Bösesabwendgeste" (= highly silly gesture to prevent evil) or commonly referred to as "the metal gesture":




Oh yes, the metalheads..

They are: (impossible to treat)


but impossibly fun:


they headbang, mosh in pits, crowdsurf:


but like their comfort:


and are generally just very relaxed:




Oh yea, where are you from again?


I like everything that has the W:O:A logo on it, so I loooved the Full Metal Bag:


You wonder what my favourite place after the stage area was? "Wackinger Village" of course:


With games:



- wrong:
- right:
A little torture here and there ("He listened to Hip-Hop!" - "I saw him doing it!"):


and as all over the place, mead in its typical containers:


Isn't all that exhausting, you ask? You bet: