Last tuesday it finally was Sankt Hans - our midsummer-celebration here in Denmark!
LETZTEN DIENSTAG WAS HIER SANKT HANS - DAS MITTSOMMERFEST!
I had spent most of the day preparing food, which you can see here; I'm about to unpack lots and lots of different sallads, desserts, dressings and of course more sausages than we could eat for the barbecue!
WIR SIND NACH MARIENLYST GEFAHREN.
This picture shows an old couple strolling along the beach, but I took it because it reminds me of one of Krøyer's paintings from Skagen-beach...
DORT MACHTEN WIR EIN GROSSES BARBECUE.
The were many, many people on that beach that night, it must have been thousands, but the beach is so long, that it still seemed quite relaxed and not crowded, even though there must have been a fire every 100 metres...
ICH HATTE UNHEIMLICH VIELE SALATE UND DESSERTS GEMACHT...
As you can see, it isn't really that hot here... I am wearing a very thick ski-vest under the arctic jacket and underneath that 3 other layers... still the water was nice and warm... - well everything is relative, isn't it?!
DANN ENDLICH WURDEN DIE GR. FEUER ENTZÜNDET!
These fires aren't all that small... and even though I am quite familiar with fire and do not mind touching flames etc. the heat that it was generating was enormous! You couldn't really get all too close, before you would get the feeling as if it was peeling off your skin... anyway, it was nice and warm on a chilly scandinavian summer's night!
WIR HABEN GESUNGEN UND GEFUTTERT...
They have now finally lit the bonfire behind us. But we're still not done cooking... and eating...
UND DAS FEUER WAR SEHR GROSS UND HEISS...
As you can see in the background, there are many more bonfires in the distance... in every direction!
UND ES GABE SEHR VIELE DAVON AM GRANZEN STRAND...
VIELE LEUTE AUCH... ABVER DIE VERTEILTEN SICH DÜNN...
After the barbecue and the songs that people sung by the fire - the spirit was really lovely, everybody was smiling and saying hello, people felt very close to each other and it was a very peaceful get-together, in spite of everybody being strangers...
DIE GUTE STIMMUNG SETZTE SICH IN DER STADT FORT...
Anyway... after having stuffed ourselves we hit the town - Marielyst by night!
WO WIR DANN NOCH MUSIK HÖRTEN...
there was nice life entertainment and I bought a BIG ice-cream for each of the guys... we've had a great night out!
UND NATÜRLICH ORDENTLICH EIS ASSEN!
Sorry for the bad quality of the pics, but they were all taken with my mobile (CELL) phone!
ALLE BILDER SIND MIT DEM HANDY GEMACHT, DAHER DIE ETWAS GERINGERE QUALITÄT...
This is the friends award, which I have received from Lisa Allender some time ago.I thought I had already posted it, but it seems that I hadn't so here it finally is!
HIER NOCH EIN AWARD VON LISA ALLENDER:
http://lisananetteallender.blogspot.com/
Thank you very much Lisa, it's very nice of you to consider me, especially that yopu are such a sweet and friendly person yourself!
I will pass this award on to teh readers of this blog, the followers, but also those who haven't signed in who just read it quietly can, if they want to, take this award home with them. Enjoy!
love, Sarah Sofia
ICH GEBE IHN AN ALLE WEITER, DIE DIESEN BLOG GERNE LESEN UND WÜNSCHE EUCH VIEL FREUDE DAMIT!
It looks like a very entertaining evening, BBQ's on the beach are always nice and the bonfires are very warming in cold weather, so long as you dont get too close.
ReplyDeleteLovely family pics and lovely of you Sarah Sofia, nice to see you without your sunglasses. :) ♡
It is interesting to see how other people in different parts of the world live and celebrate.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine the sausages were amazing.....I am starting to feel hungry now.
Schöne bilder von was scheint ein tolles fest. Das wetter war gut so zu sehen? Was wunscht man sich mehr? leckeres essen, freunden, musik, alles toll.
ReplyDeleteOT, über der webside wo du nach fragst, we hatt auch eine deutsche übersetzung, nur auf die lands Flage drucken. ;)) Grützi, jeany
Sarah Sofia, I have accepted your offer of the 'friends' award and passed it on to some of my favourite people including you, its over at my blog. ♡
ReplyDeleteDear Sarah,
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice beach you went! You really enjoy it...as I seen in your pictures. I don't think your pictures bad quality cos your pictures seen all clearly.
Have A Nice Sunny Day!
by Jenny Malaysia.
so nice!looks like a good party over there!
ReplyDeletethat looks like it was a whooooooole lot of fun! ... :)
ReplyDeleteDear Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI have an award for you again. You can view & copy it from my blog. I consider you because all your blog full of good posts and point of view! Hope you like it.
Have A Nice Day!
by Jenny Malaysia.
Hallo liebe Sarah Sofia,
ReplyDeletedas war ja ein tolles Fest. Ich frag mich , wie schaffst du es neben deiner vielen Arbeit noch so schöne Dinge zu erleben. Du bist eine Lebenskünstlerin. Ich arbeite ja seit 6 Wochen wieder in Vollzeit und habe seither das Gefühl, ausser arbeiten geht bei mir nichts mehr. Nur noch Arbeit, Haushalt und Gartenwerkeleien. Wie du es schaffst, einfach toll.
Liebe Grüße Chrissi
Thanks for sharing these fun pictures with your readers. You are a very cool family !
ReplyDeleteLet the good times roll ! :)
Brad
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI am so enjoying this post of your writing of the lovely time your family and everyone had on this day and evening. I loved looking at the beautiful photos (yes they are good even with the cell phone camera) the lovely older couple walking the beach and how you said there were maybe a thousand walking the beach but since it's a beach and long walking...never crowded. How lovely.
The photos of you and your family made me feel like I was right there on the next "beach spot" sitting on a blanket near you guys...ha ha.
I've been watching a PBS channel here tonite and the whole evening was about the countryside of Norway, Germany, and Italy. I just sat there hearing all the history and all the historical and just "Beautiful" countryside. I felt such a yearning to go to Europe. I have longed to go there my whole adult life but never made it. I have always felt a vivd connection to Europe that I cannot begin to explain. I don't know why but I feel more like I belong among the Europeans than I do my own country "America"..yes, strange I know but it's very true for me. I did live in Japan for over a year in mid 70's and I loved it so..it changed my whole way of thinking in my life..I became more "evolved"...and just don't feel like I belong in America. Strange hey? Yes, I know. I am French Canadian Indian on my fathers side. I have always felt "french" people used to joke that I looked French or European...and I always felt that I did too. My wish is to visit France and England and as many of the European countries that I can before I pass on. I had a dream that I would one day live there but it never happened. I don't feel like the politics here in U.S. or any of the values and other things..I don't feel connected with it.
Well I got carried away as usual..sorry..:p)
I had to end up getting the laptop pc special deal sooner than I thought as they only had one more left at this price and that was it! Don't tell anyone as I"m still on a "vacation" of sorts for a while from my blog other than posting music videos..
Hope to get an e-mail from you soon. Maybe we could write letters via "real mail"...what do you think?
Thinking of you and thanking you for being my friend.
Love, Rhi