All the participating travel bloggers also wrote some text about why this is they’re favorite travel song – quite interesting so follow the above link to read them!

We did choose a brilliant song of Chris Rea: The Road to Hell. For us travel in itself is a road AWAY from hell – the every day life routines. This song tells you that the life you’re trapped in, is the road to hell and you cant get out. It’s a wake-up call for more freedom. Somehow it also reminds us about the Vikings with their urge to go on their plundering trips…

Besides that: the music is very catchy, the guitar-playing is simply awesome and Chris voice so d*rn pleasant to listen too!

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We will definitely play it on our next road trip!

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Lifecruiser ♥ Travel Songs

The festival were called Inti Raymi – The sun festival: “Everybody joined under the same sun”. This was the first time for this festival and such a multicultural performance which we never have seen before in Stockholm!

There were songs and dancing from all over South America including a very special cultural integration performance with the inka and dancing to the sun gods honor – among many other scenes.

Sitting there in this very Swedish park seeing this cultural event so far from our country did feel a bit unreal, but also very, very interesting!

It also gave me visions of South America and especially the Andes mountains. Suddenly this park scene felt not beautiful enough for these scenes.

It’s great that this cultural exchange between our countries has started and we all want to see this festival become an annual event.

Lifecruiser ♥ South America
 

One of the most magic things we get to see when we’re out on a trip is the rainbow. Here over the mountains at Tenerife Island, Spain, in January 2009.

Even the clouds gives an unreal touch. Soft like cotton.

….and so is this video:

If you’re not somewhere over the rainbow after watching the touching video with Connie Talbot above, your heart must be of stone!

Lifecruiser ♥ Rainbows
 

September the 5th until the 7th there was Europe’s largest free open air party at the Danube Island in Vienna. About 2,000 artists and up to three million visitors were expected to be there – including us!

It’s the biggest music event I’ve ever attended. There were stages everywhere with different bands playing and artists singing. They were great even though totally unknown to us, but not to all the others judging by the screaming.

The Danube Island (Donauinsel in German) where it was held, is a 21.1 km long and narrow island along the Danube river.

With it’s 70-210 meters width, I’ll say that it’s perfect for these kind of venues. Keeping all the festivities away from the city homes, not disturbing them too much, because the music – and the crowd – was loud!

“To most visitors, the island is known as a recreational area with bars, restaurants and nightclubs, a wealth of sports opportunities from rollerblading, cycling and swimming to canoeing and one beach that in its beginning felt so exotic that it was soon nicknamed the “Copa Cagrana” (a humoristic allusion to Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana: Kagran is the part of the 22nd District of Vienna next to that one beach). In the southern and northern parts of the island there are extensive (and free) nude beaches”.

Source: Wikipedia

There were lots and lots of food and drinks stalls, which made me wish that we hadn’t eaten already before going there. There were food from other countries too.

Most of the others seemed to have gone from eating to more drinking and it was really one big party going on all over the island. Totally incredible how big the festival area is and how much we walked and walked.

We were only there in the evening and it was dark, so we couldn’t see much of the surroundings plus it was so crowded that you had to walk in line at some parts.

It don’t show in the photos how crowded it was, because I had to put the camera in it’s bag to protect it from being damaged when walking along the most crowded parts.

That’s also the reason why I haven’t got more or better photos to show you…. or was it the drinks perhaps….?

Not ALL of that big glasses though! *giggles*

It’s quite obvious that this a very popular music festival and we really could understand why. Though I don’t recommend staying there too late in the night even if there were lots of police’s.

The most surprising this night besides how big this festival area is, was the indians we saw playing, singing and dancing there. We didn’t expect that.

Both Mr Lifecruiser and me found them fascinating even though it’s not Austria’s natives.

I have no idea what kind of indians they are, so if you know, please leave a comment to tell us.

If you want to see them dancing too, see my video Danube Island Festival Indians Part 2.

We were leaving some time after midnight and we had to walk across the bridge plus some more to get to the public transportation. Luckily, without knowing it in advance, we did catch the last train home.

My back and my feet were aching, but the lights of the city were totally worth seeing from the island. I don’t know about you, but for me it’s a treat.

Even if you’re not going there in the festival time, I highly recommend a visit to the island. It’s such a wonderful recreation area.

I wouldn’t mind exploring the beaches and some more of the bars and restaurants myself – even during daytime.

Have a look at the Donauinselfest Portal, where you also can find a video from 2006 to get a grip of what it’s all about.

See all Lifecruiser Danube Island Festival Photos (17).

The Donauinselfest 2009 is the 26th – 28th June if you’re tempted to make it a visit.

Lifecruiser ♥ Vienna
 

Remember that we saw Scandimaniacs at Gotland, which I wrote about earlier? We went to their concert in Stockholm too. 2008-08-11 to be exact.

The concert were held at Turteatern, Reflexen in Kärrtorp in the south suburbs of Stockholm, an old movie theater which hubby remember well from his childhood.

It looked exactly the same, no renovation done, nada! It’s like being thrown back in the fifties. A truly cool place with a lot of funky atmosphere.

For you that haven’t read my earlier post about the Scandimaniacs, they present themselves as the best Swedish Cabarét Duo from Paris, starring Sara Lewerth and Emil Lager.

I’ll confirm that statement and add that they are really witty, humorous, giving a lot of themselves during their performances with a lot of twinkle in their eyes! A safe card when when you wanna have a good time, but they also gives a message in their songs.

It was not so good photo environment, we were not close enough and the lighting for photography weren’t exactly the best, so the photos is a bit blurry. I’m surprised that it came out as good as they did actually!

My big camera was unfortunately out of batteries just after a couple of shots, how typical isn’t that? Always charge your batteries, yeah, I hear you…. *giggles*

What surprised me even more, was how the videos came out, that I took there. My compact camera, Canon Ixus 80IS did a fantastic job, I must say. I’m very pleased with it.

I’m pleased with myself too, because it was rather difficult to hold up my arms holding the camera (and to hold it still!) during the whole video shooting time….

I so love the ending of this one!!! (This video when uploaded to YouTube, became a bit more blurry than it is in the origin, which is a pity).

If you want so see some more of the Scandimaniacs, have a look at my Youtube Scandimaniacs video playlist with other videos of them. I have a couple more videos to upload later too.

I’ll say it again: if you have the opportunity and they comes to a place nearby you, don’t hesitate, just go there!!! You’ll have a blast with a lot of laughs.

Their tour continues in Barcelona, Spain, early October (exakt information will soon be out).

Go to their webpages to listen to more music from them or to see their gig schedule:

Scandimaniacs Google Pages | Scandimaniacs at MySpace