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Back home, love it. Time to chill? No, first I stoped by my allotment to dig and plant in the rain, and then I stoped by the grocery store to shop the essentials for fast dinner, prepare lunch boxes and bake a cake. Back home it is no time to unpack, seems like there never is in my commuting life, because guests are coming. When the cake and pudding has filled everyone with sweet you I do not have the energy to do the dish. I sit down in my favourite grandpa shair to relax : Home sweet home!

/Miss T

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You can buy art in Stockholms finest galleria Mood. Internet auctionist Lauritz.com now has a physical showroom in the very center of the Swedish capital. Take a look for art or furniture. Today you could even make a bid on one of six vintage wedding dresses and a Balanciaga frock.

/Miss T

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Miss T recommends:

Take picnic with you to eat with seaview in posh Saltsjöbaden outside Stockholm. Visit the old wooden bath buildings, one for each sex, and when you are hungry or thirsty again stop by the sea restaurant on the board for a salty burger or typical swedish dish with salmon, potatoes and fennel. Feeling tired or ready to relax in a spa, check in at fashionable Saltsjöbaden hotel where modern swedish political history was made. Read more here about the beautiful hotell, The Saltsjöbaden negotiation, China’s islet and the salty baths.

/Miss T

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Flippin’ Burgers at Kungsholms strand is Stockholms latest meat hype. You can not book a table here so prepare to que outside or if you are lucky at the minimum bar inside. We were there early, 15 minutes before opening time (5 pm), on a saturday afternoon – and it is all ready 50 people ahead standing outside in the rain. Then we are lucky to get inside and wait almost an hour with time to taste a couple of beers from around the world, Namibia, Australia and West Bank/Palestina (best!). You really feel special when people hour after hour wait outside just to taste Flippin’ burgers, said to be the sum up of one of the owner’s travels looking for the best burger in the world. This is not a fancy place, quite the opposite, and it is not the best service but the burger is supernice and the milkshake, made of Ben and Jerry ice scream, is a dream. Take Flippin’ burger, add strips and a cookie dough milkshake – and if you can not stopp counting calories do not go here!

/Miss T

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Miss T recommends:

Ai Weiwei, rebell, artist, architect, filmer and freedom fighter, has an exibition at Magasin 3, Stockholm. This is the most famous and most controversial artist of modern China. See more added pictures and read my thoughts in english – this time – in last blog post.

/Miss T

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Ai Weiwei, rebell, artist, architect, filmer and freedom fighter, has an exibition at Magasin 3, Stockholm. The first in Sweden and the famous Sunflower seeds, tons of fake, handpainted, is central. World map is also present. The guide let us know that he flowered as an artist standing on his own first after 12 years in New York and the moving back to China. The overall context of his art is reflecting on modern chinese sociaty and lack of democracy, says the guide. The Sunflower seeds is Ai Weiwei’s memory of the generousity between people that had nothing to eat except these seeds. But his seed you can’t eat, they are turned to stone, they will not grow and become a flower, as they people in China is turned to stone too, the guide explain. The man time put in to this, his most famous piece of art until this day, is 2,5 years of labour for 1600 people. I admirer his free spirit but one can not help wondering if they are 1) harmed by the poisanous substance that they discovered leaking and make him show the original heap of seeds in smaller amounts 2) did some of the painters put some seeds in the pocket as a retirement insurance (the Brillo box-thought). Ai Weiwei recently sold tons of these Sunflower seeds hinmself to a museum, according to the guide.

Sunflower seed: “Det verk som Ai Weiwei kanske är mest känd för och som kanske får honom att gå till konsthistorien”, menar guiden på Magasin 3.”Det är faktiskt 5 ton handmålade som ni ser här. Det är fantastiskt.”

Fakta: 125 000 handmålade solrosfrön i porslinslera. 1600 hantverkare arbetade med att måla solrosfrön under 2,5 år

Weiweis verk utspelar sig i en kinesisk kontext, berättar guiden. Att dela med sig av solrosfrön var en gest av medmänsklighet under den stora svälten. De här solrosfröna är förstenade så som Kinas folk är förstenat av regimen. Under Tate Modern-tiden upptäcktes att solrosfrön utsöndrade ett gift och folk tog små frön med sig, så därför sluta vara interaktivt.
Weiwei försörjs av sponsorer, har en gallerist och söker pengar.
“Nyligen tror jag Tate Modern köpte 800 kilo av det här”, säger guiden om solrosfröna.

Hon visar allra först Ai Weiweis verk World map, världen som en tredeminsionell karta av 2000 lager bomullslager, utstansat. En industriell produkt och däri ligger skillnaden mellan de båda berömda verken som båda speglar Kina idag, hantverk och industri och många mantimmar.

/Miss T

On tour again

Posted: 11 May, 2012 in Budget, Europa, Sweden
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Sometimes Quick and Easy is all you want. Ended up eating in the car. No glamour, just pretty easy. I am on tour again. Destination: Weekend in Stockholm.

/Miss T