Friday, June 25, 2010

When in Stockholm, go see the Museum of Dance

Dansmuseet (Museum of Dance) in Stockholm is one of the best museums I've seen so far. I only went to the free part. It was a big hall with glass cases with dance costumes from all over the world. And even though is was by no means fancy or surprising I still find it absolutely amazing.
It didn't take me that long to go through the exhibition, however, I felt almost every emotion possible by the sight of ballet dresses and African masks. They had TV screens showing examples of tribal dancing and along with the sound of drums I almost felt like the costumes in the glass cases were going to move.
Obviously they didn't, but never the less, I think it shows that - in spite of the quite plain way of showing off the exhibited pieces - the viewer is able to get caught up in the story told through the costumes. And I guess that is what costumes are meant to do?

As I said, I didn't see the part of the museum where you have to pay, but I will definitely check it out the next time I go to Stockholm. And should you be in the neighborhood I really think you should at least go to the free part. I mean, it's free, if you don't like it you can leave and you won't feel bad because did I mention that it's free?
Last but not least, their cafe is quite popular. People who work in the area go there for lunch. The food wasn't THAT amazing, but it was alright and the staff was friendly.

http://www.dansmuseet.se/

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

When in need of time to think things over

I just ate ice cream for breakfast...

Well, I haven't been updating as often as I would like to. I could apologize, but since nobody seems to be reading any of my blogs I don't really see the point. Anyway, I write for my own pleasure :)
The thing is, I wanted to keep my personal blog personal, and this blog more like a subjective travel guide. But now my personal life is messing up my time to write travel blog posts.
I feel like I have so many good tips to share and NOT writing them down makes me feel bad, and then THAT just makes me even more stressed out, and THAT! my friend makes me even less productive. So I try to not feel bad about not getting everything done. Like, I can't remember when was the last time I vacuumed my room. And I don't care. It doesn't effect anyone but myself.
My point is: right now I'm simply too busy trying to figure out what to do next, to remember what I did when I was in Warsaw...
The good news are that I've just returned from Hamburg and that I'll be moving to Copenhagen terrifyingly soon which means even more places to write about! Yay!

In case anyone is actually reading this: I don't mean to sound pitiful, it just sometimes happens. Especially when I realize that there are things that I HAVE to do that are more important than the things I WANT to do. Then I feel sorry for myself.


Sunday, June 6, 2010

When in Copenhagen, find the Distortion party!

I'm on the train back from Copenhagen (where I'll soon be living, yay!) and I just thought I would share with you a little info about us Danes: We have nice homes. And why do you need to know this, you wonder? Because. Contrary to people in for example Southern Europe (who have, generally, no clue about how to pick out nice furniture - sorry!) we spend A LOT of our lives indoor. This has undoubtedly something to do with the fact that it's raining like 80% of the time. But when it's not raining we get excited and run outside and get a sunburn and skin cancer and destroy our livers by consuming large amounts of alcohol.
There are, however, times when it seems to be more important that the sun is shining. Like in the time of a music festival.
We have quite a few. The most famous one being Roskilde. SPOT might be my favourite. And a couple of days ago I experienced Distortion for the very first time. Well, I didn't go to the actual festival since I'm not that into electronic music. But when people have told me that Copenhagen turns into a big outdoor party venue, they really didn't lie. I'm not going to pretend that it was the best party of my life, but I really found it fascinating to see all these people dancing around in the streets.
That is basically what summer nights would be more like if I were in charge :)

Right now I can't tell when Distortion is going down next year and where the streets parties are going to be, but IF I'm still blogging in a year's time, I'll try to do a post about it.
I really love big cities in the summer!