SwedishVanessa

Let's recap if you're only reading this one: It all started in May - Vancouver, Brazil, Copenhagen, France, Sweden - big events we were working in each place. Then a summer of festivals and events and now, here we are, just before Mexico. A quick run down of events: There was KulturSYDhavn, round 2. It went well. It was combined with a mobile hacking workshop so that was really interesting, and followed up with my good friend Christian welcoming his daughter, Katinka into the world - congratulations to you all! Then we had a fairly hectic insane fall - a quick trip to Berlin as part of a visit with Nick and Ben - my good Canadian friends who have now twice come to Denmark so that was fantastic. A Copenhagen Burlesque, short but lovely as ... read more

On to Sweden! Doesn't seem so far off does it, Denmark-Sweden? But when you're coming Vancouver->Brazil->Copenhagen->France->Sweden, it is a long way. So, Sweden. Sweden was again, another amazing experience that I would love to do over, but on its own, without the madness of the travel and work surrounding it. Unfortunately, nothing stayed in my head, and I learned loads of amazing things. Sweden was a textile summer camp - imagine, people who make your clothing, like literally make the fabric; knowing about electronics and sewing this into your clothing. Combine this with people who study the same subject for three years becoming experts on it - electroplating, painting with graphite, working with thermochromatic ink - and then all of them give their own lesson on what they do. It was incredible! Except that I've forgotten ... read more

The flights to Brazil were surprisingly bearable. I met a lovely girl on the first flight who works PR for Aritzia in Canada and we gossiped about Gaga. On the second, my fellow passenger was Brazilian and spent a long time telling me about Brazil, the weather, the country, the language and most importantly, the Cachaca. :) The third was spent looking like a fly trap with my mouth hanging open as I had passed out and barely noticed take off or landing. Arriving in Brazil was a bit mad. The Sao Paulo airport leaves a lot to be desired with no instruction whatsoever, a boot off the plane, a neverending walkway followed by an unexpected baggage pickup, passport check, security check with no actual 'check', a surprising exit into the airport entrance, now completely out ... read more

It's been a long time since Australia and so much has happened, so much in fact that it's been nearly impossible to write anything down. Even now, I'm on a flight to Vancouver, and should be spending the remaining hour on my laptop writing a business plan but I felt like writing, getting thoughts out of my head and telling some of the story since Australia. We returned from Australia and were welcomed by Denmark's winter, long, cold, and overall very opposite of what we'd seen in Australia. This year I was prepared, Sorel snow boats, wool I'd bought in Australia and the right gloves. I even biked many times on the days when it was at all possible and the paths were cleared. We had a number of fun weekends, a quick weekend away to ... read more

Arriving in Cairns was similar to arriving in Hawaii, or at least in a different country. The air quality had changed to take on that humid tone where you can feel the air as you breathe it in; everything was suddenly very green and very lush and not at all the red, red soil we had seen on the drive in or the dusty endless plains that accompanied the highways. We arrived at our resort, "The Lakes Cairns" which really was the definition of a resort, huge sprawling entry gates, sheltered parking and an apartment much bigger than my own big apartment in Copenhagen. The balcony alone was bigger than my bedroom. We could hear waterfalls but not see them since we arrived at night time and embarrassingly given all the luxury surrounding us, we had ... read more