Two weeks in Norderney // part 1

Is there a better way to forget about the hustle and bustle of a city like Berlin than a lonely windy beach and the roaring of the sea? Norderney is one of my alltime favourite places for that, almost like a second home by now. It's one of the East Frisian islands, in the north of Germany, with beautiful almost white, almost endless beaches, beautiful dunes and a lovely little town. And the North Sea all around. It has a landscape that sometimes looks almost otherworldly and which I cannot get enough of. The sandy beige of the beach, the greens and reds of the dunes and the million shades of blue of the sea and the sky. A colour palette that speaks of summer, of the sun, of the wind, of storms and rain, of salty air and sandy feet ...

"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
Rainer Maria Rilke