Bali
Heading to Bali for a few days and will be gloriously offline. Shall be interesting.
Romanian shepherds
Found this travel blog completely by accident. Beautiful pictures of Romania. And Asia.
Christmas in Singapore
Why do the Christmas decorations here feel so bizarre? Asia is great but I have a strong feeling that this is the first and the last Christmas we’re celebrating here. Christmas should be spent at home with family and with at least a possibility of snow.
Stuff
A column by me on the press club trip, for those of you who read Swedish.
Hmm… think the photo of me in a fur-coat needs to be changed when writing from Asia…
Are women naive?
Attended a very interesting workshop a few days ago led by the inspiring lady Jane Horan about the importance of understanding politics in the workplace – something women often tend to overlook. We often tend to think “that our work, our results will speak for themselves”. Whether in India or in Europe, this is what many women argue, said Jane.
How interesting.
Are we really this naive?
Or is it some sort of stubborn idea of not confirming to something we don’t consider “fair”.
But life is not “fair”. Time to face reality. The workshop was a real eye-opener for me. Thank you Jane!
Back in Sing
Jetlagged and a bad cold but lovely to be back in a tropical climate, I have to say.
I come home to a whole range of plants installed by my inlaws. There is a lime tree and chilis on our balcony. How irresistibly exotic to us Scandinavians.
The chilis are not just hot. They are a chemical weapon!
Beethoven lives at Vienna Airport
Sitting in a café at Vienna airport. Believe it or not but somebody is actually playing the Beethoven moonlight sonata live on a piano here.
In an airport café!
This is possible only in Vienna.
Vienna cherishes the past
I love the old fashioned coffee houses of Vienna. They are so straight-out-of-a-movie retro. Extended living rooms where you can sit and drink, eat, smoke, read the newspaper or dream up scenarios for your next project. It’s all been the same for a hundred years and you know that everybody has been here before you: all the composers, writers, artists. Their spirits are alive in these walls.
The waitress too has been here for a hundred years. Nothing has changed. Times has stood still.
While Prague and Bratislava rushes to get forward, Vienna looks back, to the past. This attitude has it drawbacks as well, of course.
Such as the fact that on November 17, today, Europe is still in many ways divided into East and West, 20 years after the fall of communism in former Czechoslovakia. Old attitudes are kept alive here, attitudes which often are not as charming as the Viennese coffee houses…
Elderly persons still wear hats in this country.
Actual hats. Imagine that.
