This weekend, me and Diana from work (a fan of the-biggest-cafe-latte-there-is) had a great walk through a sunny, lazy Sunday city.

HAPPY MOMENTS…
… like the “SENSITIVE BARBARIAN”, a book store café near the University Library. Happy, simply because of the relaxed atmosphere among the book shelves and I found happiness, 10×16 centimetres of guidance, the color was turquoise …. ok, so I have a strange addiction to Wallpaper guides… (The café turned out to be a part of the guide which I had a feeling of..)


The botanical garden is not any botanical garden, it´s the ROOF on the Warsaw University Library, definitely worth while!

STEALING BEAUTY and the artist GUY BEN-NER
The exhibition “Revolutions 1968″ pictured the stormy years, 1965-1975, from all over world through the eyes of art. Interesting for sure, but I really enjoyed a video project at the gallery made of the Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner. “Stealing Beauty”, a politcal satire about the world´s captialism and ideal created like a “IKEA sitcom”. (February 08 Postmasters Gallery New York)

“The promised land” - IKEA. The artist Ben-Ner is moving into IKEA showrooms in different stores, Israel, Germany and the US, to live a happy and “normal” life with his family. They are trying to fit in, adapt to a Western way of living. “Honey, I’m hooome”, is the first thing Ben says when he arrives in an IKEA living room with the price tags in different values attached on every object. The movie is shot like a soap opera or a sitcom, where strangers are passing by, looking at the family and sometimes into the camera. Most scenes last until Ikea staff throws everyone out….
What´s more…..

Lately I´ve been nagging about NOT having internet in my apartment, but I didn´t realise how desperate you can get when the internet is your only connection to your ”old” world, family, news and friends. Ok, my mobile phone is working, but it´s not for free… I realised I missed a few important mails lately hmm… Internet café is a solution, but I really had bad luck last weekend becuase 2 out of 4 internet café had no room for me and the other 2 was closed on Sundays. I went home to my lovely but quiet apartment.

Last Saturday I took a city walk for 4 hours. The old town was very nice but crowded! The controversial culture house in the middle of the city had a great 360 degree´s view from the roof top, beautiful but ice cold! I passed the former jewish ghetto and discovered interesting historic buildings and views. Warsaw is a city of contrasts!

I went out on saturday night to watch a race with people that don’t have anything better to do on an saturday night then participate in a race through Budapest. A short one though only 6,5 km…but still ;)

Beautiful surroundings, no doubt of that.