Viertel Festival

I'd like to claim I planned it, but that would be a lie. But I managed to attend what I assume is one of the best festivals in Bremen - the Viertel festival taking place in the Viertel quarter. They block off an entire street and many of the streets that come off it, fill it up with stalls and trailers selling becks. Put up four stages and then project crazy stuff onto all the houses in the street. There was also a garden in the middle of the road and sounds coming from all the storm water drains.

One of the house projections was part of what I would assume was the world's largest pinball computer game. Hopefully the photo shows what's going on, but it was all lined up so that the features of the house were included as part of the game.

Other less interactive projections featured people climbing out of the windows on the ground floor, climbing up the building and then going in other windows, it was quite mesmorising and exceptionally well done.


One of the things that strikes me as odd, is how easy it is to buy alcohol and cigarettes - there are vending machines for cigarettes everywhere and beer seems to be able to be sold on the street, certainly every place I've seen that sells food even a dodgy hot dog stand will sell becks. And while almost everyone smokes, it doesn't seem like public drunkeness is more or less of an issue than anywhere else I've been.

I'd also like to whinge about the fact that blogger doesn't auto rotate uploaded photos!