Hoffest

Every year sometime between end of September and beginning of October the awesome Hoffest opens its doors. This year´s party will commence on 30.09.2011 and the venue will be the old established Ottakringer Brauerei, with open doors at 8pm accompanied by 200 beers for free. As usual our soundsystem Phononoia will host the electronic floor (starting approx. 11pm).

On decks or alternatively on the midi controllers: Nietzsche, Soundraiser and Habakuk
Diascope and Bilderbuchi will take care about all kinds of moving and static visuals.

Small hint by the way: don´t be too late, the cue gets long around half past ten.

NetTechno

There is a new Habakuk mix online at play.fm, mostly techno and all featured tracks were released under Creative Commons. You can also follow the link in the play.fm widget on the right.

Mr. R

Mr. R is staying for a short week in Den Haag, Holland to participate in a conference about super conductivity. For sure he gave me a call to visit me in Brielle. As you have perhaps noticed, there were no new posts on this blog in the last couple of weeks simply because of two reasons: First, the workload in the finalization phase of a power plant doesn´t allow you much free time and second: the weather conditions were not really changing in comparison to our super rainy summer, what is really a pain in the ass when you are addicted to outdoor activities. However, this Sunday I have off and the visit from Mr. R was perfectly scheduled and fortunately also the weather feels sympathy for us.

Sunrise

Today i had to be early on site, so I rolled my body out of my warm bed at an unusual time and tried to get my brain working with the help of black coffee made after a receipt from a Romanian colleague (the spoon remains in the upright position even when you tilt the cup).

Sushi not go round

There are some ways for sushi restaurants to offer their food. You can eat a la carte, running sushi, buffet style and so on. In Delft I have discovered a new way: In rounds. Let me explain: In each round you are allowed to order up to five small things, e.g. one nigiri sushi, three maki rolls, two spring rolls, etc...You can repeat this process for two and a half hours. In case you are not able to finish the meals they are charged additional to the lump sum price you pay for this kind of "all you can eat". Here the link to Umai Sushi in Delft.

Brugge

Wednesday evening we arrived in Brugge. After check in we took a short walk around and hit on an open air stage, part of the Klinkers Festival, called Klinkende Kroegen, where they hired Sweet Coffee for a DJ set featuring a live Sax. The setup was very similar to the Phononoia gigs in cooperation with Mani Marillo at several Hoffests (upcoming event scheduled for 30.09.2011 at the Ottakringer Brauerei). This posts hints are our B&B in Brugge, the Abiente, located next to the Centre and the Chocolatier Dumon, one of the last small chocolate shops with in house production -> In both cases I only say highly recommendable.

 

You really want to see something? For sure you have to pay for it!!

Gent

Next stop in Belgium: Gent, a relaxing 1hrs ride from Antwerp heading west. Because we rented a B&B in Brugge, we only had the "day time" to visit this lovely city with its intimate city centre.

Zeebrugge. Weather was quite OK, before entering Brugge we drove to Zeebrugge and spotted this verrukkelijk surf station

The down side of North Sea Tourism, Blankenberge, next to Zeebrugge.