16 July 2021
It’s foggy in the morning and I’m on the road again pretty early. At 9 o’clock I pass through the Elbtunnel in Hamburg. Then the road becomes emptier and better! Around 11 o’clock I’m at the Danish boarder – they pick all foreign number plate cars and ask me about my PCR test. Yet, when I tell them that I was fully vaccinated the young custom officer does not even want to see my certificate.
I’m in Denmark! I stop at Middelfart, a small town located just at the junction where you head from Jütland towards Sealand. Zug’s BlueStar Sailing has a base there so I want to have a look. But what surprise! NO MASKS! No-one is wearing a mask, neither inside nor outside any building – no masks! For almost 18 months or so I have been accustomed to wearing a mask once in public and suddenly there are no masks! I do not see a single mask and it almost seems ridiculous to have one with me. Corona almost seems not to have ever been existent!
Middlefart is a nice place with old beautiful brick houses. I stroll around the harbour, have an icecream for lunch, buy some groceries and set off again. I want to get to Roskilde, the place where the famous music festival took place in the 80ties and still does, even though the 2021 edition was rather meak version of what it uses to be, I’m told.
Middelfart! – Sun, summer and no masks!
Roskilde – the name evokes the spirit of the eighties and nineties. Most famous pop-stars from Santana to the Ramones, from Nirvana to David Bowie, INXS to Sinead O’Connor, the Cure or U2 – you name it – they have all been performing at Roskilde Festival. The first edition being a copy of the Woodstock took place in 1971. Later, the festival became infamous for its bad organisation and there was an incident when some spectators were even killed during a concert.
So true!
