Yesterday, on the A40 Motorway...

For the people of the Rhine-Ruhr area the A40 motorway open air festival "Still-Leben" (Still Life) was quite a big thing. Years of preparation, tons of news coverage, much of it sceptic. Just think of it: About 60 kilometers of one of Germany's busiest motorways turned over to pedestrians, cyclists, skaters and picnickers for the duration of six hours on a Sunday in July.

Cavendish and I went there, together with a couple of friends, and were blown away by the blue-skied, happy, relaxed atmosphere. The last time I experienced something so joyful, easy-going and in a very strange way self-explanatory as this was the "Wrapped Reichstag" of 1995.

An article in English about the A40 Still-Leben


( A bunch of pictures, taken by Cavendish )