Stockholm- part 2/ del 2

So after one of the most lovely start of a holliday, the next day came and was everything but boring.
Having meeting new people the day before, I hade to meet them again of course. 
First reading the actual QX newspaper

Shizmo had to read the QX News too and fell in Love with those Anton singer...

and the news about the PRIDE WEEK and where to go, then coffee and of course a walk to the "Gamle Stan" the island in the town, the old town, the beautiful sight and Shizmo, the little friend of mine, the brother of Gizmo went with me. Remember, he was in London with me, where I picked him up for good...?
We went through the centre, to the park "Djurgården" a park with so much in it, museum, ways, restauranst, coffes, the "Vasa Museet" the "Have fun part" with rollercosters... and Shizmo with me, we decided not only to walk around, we wanted to have some space at the "beach" of the lake and sitt there feel the air, see the nature go by and meditate. So we did.

Shizmo loves art and likes to be part of it.. in the background the parlament

together we walked through the "Gamle stan"

he was so happy...

Shizmo meditating

And while walking again through the centre later, to visite a guy, I knew from Facebook,  at the theater, I saw two press shops who changed their names into "gay shop- bögbyrån" and "Trans shop- transbyrån". Because of the Pride Week and when a journalist asked them who will buy there ticktes and chickolade and bananas, and how they felt about this, the answere was like: " Oh they all so nice, so gay...".
Funny. Isn't it?

Funny was not the right word when you have been in the ABBA Museum, and this museum is smaller then I thought. I saw the opening on youtube and thought the house must be big... It is actually not that big but then, it is bigger then it seems, cos the museum self is downstairs and there we hade fun. Shizmo, my new friends and I and of course, ABBA and ABBA and ABBA. 
Some interactiv plays where able to do like singing, dancing and making music by yourself or putting us into one of the music videos which was to be true so unbelievable childish and looked like some idiots are jumping into the wrong picture. But we had fun, that's all it matters.
And singing like ABBA is harder then you think. Mostly maybe for men, cos that high to sing is well.... try it and have fun!

that's what the ABBA studio loooked like once

oh how good we were... or better bad as we could be... 

Oh no, I did not try, cos I am so bad as a singer, even the microphone will leave me in a second.
Actually you are able to see a lot of stuff you never saw before and that makes this expencive viste worth the time. Oh and yes, they also have the "Swedish Music Hall of Fame" inside that building. 

Although I did not find out what they really do in the rest of the building. Science maybe. 
You may now think, that's enough for a day, but being at Pride Week, you had to Party and so after bringing Shizmo home to get him into bed, I met a new friend to pic him up to come with me to party, but as it was, he made something to eat and we went down the wood- yes that's the nice thing in Stockholm, living in the centre, having the lake next to you, the ocean and the woods- well, we went till the lake, to eat, drink some wine- yes I did- and he jumped into the whater. Must confess I did not till today this year, but was never much of a swimmer outside. 

very typical ... no flowers to see on the house or better balcony... unlike it is in Germany

Bit late we came to the club but as lucky kids we were, we didn't hade to wait and danced the night till the closing time and as this is one thing which is actually typical in Sweden- 3 o 'clock is a late time to shut a party down. No matter if the sun is already coming up that time again or like in the winter never will (well that's not true- just bit later).
I went home and I can say with this party I had meet new friends, being with frineds, and meeting people I knew from facebook. And that's what I like with my journeys too. To get to know all the people on Facebook I never met before, just had some chattings. For real. That's much better then all the so called friends you may collect on the cyper space. Forever and ever.
 
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Stockholm- part 1

And so it is summer again and after I had been not over a several years of being there, my visit in Stockholm again. 
This time, again, I lived at a friends home and greatful as I am, I enjoyed the stay there. I had the luck to get to know this town from another side this time again. Which is always something good when it is about places you are not living at. 
So I will write about this 8 days in chapters, as you may call it. Not exactly day by day but anyway... 
Let's start with the day, when I was leaving Berlin as it became much warmer again. Usually i don't sleep much the night before I travel but I get better with each time and so I slept well, although I had to went up very early.
So from a sunny morning I arrived att a sunny place called Stockholm Arlanda airport. 
Though when we where flying over Stockholm itself I looked out of the window and enjoyed the view on the "Gamle stan" part of Stockholm, the centre, the oldes part, the part where the castle is and the ocean meets the "beach" the harbour. For a moment I looked around then in the airplane to see who is also watching the town and the shadow the plane is making but seems I was the only one who actually saw down. Later, like 5 minutes before landing they all looked out for the houses, the streets and the lakes and saw just wood, gras, fields... 
Well, I though that's bad luck. Too late guys.
Then I took the train to meet my friend. We finally came together in the centre of the town around lunch time. Thancks to mobiles it is so easy to catch up and while waiting till he arrived with the underground I bought my ticket card and got some money. Thanxs to my swedish, this was easy done. 
Then of course we went home to leave the little baggage I had. And like most times in my life when I travel... it is really not much I take with me. 
And there in Sweden it was like being home again. You know, traveling from home to home it is for me since a several years. 
Sunny wheather after rainy days before, we called a number of frineds to make a picnic in one of the parks in Stockholm, to be more correct, we went to a park next to the Mällaren- thats a part of the sea around this town. So take a map and find out. 
We became a bunch of different people who had a very good time eating, chatting and getting to know each other, and yes like a real swedish live, the rain came back for a while, so we rushed under the big tree, eating and chatting there and when the rain became stronger, we just picked up our umberellas and went on. Very much like in an Jane Austen Film/ book. Standing, sitting, chatting, laughing, smiling, eating, drinking and being in the nature. 
And nature came to us. Literally the birds -there where so near. But everyting must come to an end and we where freezing a bit too, cos rain, after sunshine, after rain and more sunshine and rain, we became quite a rainy cloud by ourself. So we decided to went to the Mällaren Pavillion, where people can eat and listen to music and as it was, we had PRIDE WEEK and so a queer Klezmer Band was playing and we had our very swedish coffe and cakes and so much fun, while the sun went down in such beautiful colors. 
Very late then we drove home and that was one of the best starts for a holliday I had and much because I speak quite good Swedish- so they say, but we had talkings in english, german and russian too. 

going down from the airport to...

the train, which took me to Scokholm

in Sweden the picnic goes on, even if it rains

view from the Mällaren Pavillion

looking to the centrum, being near to it, just about 15 min from the house and the wood is already around...

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Holi Festival

Nach gefühlten drei Stunden unter der Dusche, nachdem man von gefühlten zehn Stunden Tanzen unter der Sonne, wieder daheim gekommen ist, kann ich sagen, es war wirklich .... schön. 
Das Holi Festival findet seit 2012 in Berlin statt und dieses Jahr bereits zum 2. Mal. Es tourt nicht nur in  Deutschland, sondern auch in den anderen Ländern Europas. Denn natürlich ist das Original nicht von uns, sondern aus Indien. Dort findet es jedes Jahr im März statt und ist DAS wichtigste Fest dort. Das Farbfest gilt als Start in das Jahr. Die Farben sollen Glück bringen und die Altäre werden mit Blumen geschmückt und die Farben gesegnet. Die Farben sind dort vorwiegend durch Kräuter und Gewürze, aber mittlerweile wie bei uns auch durch Chemie hergestellt. 
Wir hatten von den Organisatoren Farbbeutel bekommen mit gefärbten Puder/ Mehl. Alles biologisch gut abbaubar und deswegen durfte auch sonst keine eigene Farben mitbringen. So zumindest der offizielle Stand. Aber es ist schon so einfacher Sicherzustellen, das man der Umwelt nicht mehr Schaden zufügt als nötig. 
Heiss war es, sonnig und fast ganz wie in den Neunzigern, als die Love Parade sich noch entwickelt. Noch ist diese Veranstaltung nicht zu populär, wenn auch schon sehr professionell betreut. 
Die DJs waren wirklich gut aufgelegt und ich traf dann auch alte Freunde, die ich schon lange nicht sah und dank eines anderen Freundes, den ich auch dort traf, konnte ich letzten Endes auch zum Holi Farbfestival gehen. 
Es gibt eine offizielle Webpage von den Veranstaltern, da sollte man ruhig hinein schauen. http://www.holifestival.com/
Dort kann man auch sehen, wo es noch statt findet. Und wie das so mit den Farben life ausschaut. 
Mitten drin ist es ich etwas anders als aussen vor, aber ich konnte tatsächlich das erleben, was man auf der Webpage sieht und viel Staub, Farbe, Nebelschwaden gleich. Und welch positive Emotions and Vibrations! 
Aber nun zu den Fotos..!
Well here in English... short version: I was at the Holi festival in Berlin and after three hours under the shower - after having danced like 10 hours- it feels like that.. I can say for sure, this Party was very goooooood. 
The original comes from India, where their celebrate the color festival in march each year and it is the most important and everyone is part of it. The colors use to be natural, but can be chemical too. In Berlin we got chemical made, but biological- so it won't hurt the earth. This celebration should bring luck, love and happiness and is in India the start of the year and here it is the second celebration this year, after some guys have taken it to Europe and tour with it, which you can read about on the webpage. I meet very nice friends and thanxs to another friend, I was able to be part of all this.. but now the pics... Have fun.

es ist ein Farbfestival. also gab es bunte Socken !

it all starts around twelve o'clock 

das Pulver

really sweet couple... Avatar is also called to be here... 

when it all started

before I went home

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Russia, Ikea, Coca Cola and the Olympics in the winter there‏

I am one of the facbook followers and there I see a lot of different things and just now there are a lot of evidence, pics about the situation in Russia. Hopefully the best is to read but it's the other way 'round. A lot of sad things and discuasting things are to see and read. 
What happend. Well Russia, part of European is not that democratic like it is told. It became more and more the opposide in the last years. Putin, now again on the top, is very much like a Hitler to the old German folk. Unluckely it seems that most russian people seems to agree with him or we have a totally wrong picture of it. Russians economy was never the best and the big money- they never had- excapt for the oil thing. That made some people rich but the rest of the country is still poor, poor and poor. So much mistaken, so much went wrong and I wonder how much hope you have and how much you people in Russia realise is up to you. 
The demoracy is more a dictatorship and the new laws some came up are very much backward then forward to the human rights and for the living of freedom. To forbbid to tralk about gay issus is a start to make people fear and fight people who have their own opinion- no matter what it is about. 
But it also is a damn thing to give these forbbiding to people from outside the country and to put people in jail for just speaking out. 
This is more then just a dictators thing. 
But the saddest thing above this is, contrarry to what politics and church orthodox church leaders says, those laws makes the violance bigger and gives them place where they should be non. 
You know, I remember so well how often they said that if we are tollerant and accept people simple for what they are, that this will distroy marriage, will destroy morality and also lead to violance but it never did happen- just look around, everywhere where they let it be, it's peace and no marraige was destroid, and no one was humilated. 
But now in Russia, people get beaten up just because they could be gay. Young man get killed, just because the sympathy was on the side of people who love people. 
THIS is a shame for you in Russia. 
If you feel not that way... you are a sad person. Beating up does never show strength and that you are strong. It just shows how weak and stupid you are and that you think your own life is worth nothing then a shit. 
Yes that's what you are telling yourself when you support this. Hate (crime) against other people no matter reason why is always showing yourself how less you think of yourself and human rights, of women, of children, of animals of peace and love. 
Is money all you care about? That is the next question,not only to you, also to Mc Donald and Coca Cola and Co. who support with money into your Country- Russia, like for the next Olympic games. Games who stand for showing the difference and fearness to each other and that everyone is worth the same, worth the support and worth the love. is mony really everything? So then does it hurt if we say no more money to the Russia, no more Vodka, no more Russia products... Poeple look where your cloths are made and forget bying those who are made in Russia. Was'n that also IKEA who let made things up there? Well then- no supoort for IKEA for saying nothing to the situation in Russia. Should we keep us outside? Normally we better do, but this is about human rights!
The other day I read that on of the Russian church leaders told to the people that he saw the sign of chaos and nightmare in the western world. Well, yes things change, because people care and love and start believing again, that money is less worth then all the other things in the whole world. People want an economy which care for health of the people and want the earth to breath as long as possible and to heal it's wounds. Cos like Russia alway did and still does.. so did and do the rich countries companies, humilating the nature. In the western world people wake up and see who really the treador is. So maybe you there my friends in Russia should start too, cos being blind does not give you the benefit of staying innocent. You should know better.
So... many people in the western world worry about the mental health of a country, which goes the NAZI way, the facist mind and follow a Hitler, a Stali which can only lead to big, big trouble for you. 
But remember human rights means to let people live the way everyone should- the way of not hurting anyone, not beating up anyone, not humilating anyone, not killing anyone, not sending someone to jail because he has it's own opinion, loves an other people (and the Bible never did tell it's forbidden to be homosexual.. and remember there are so much more warnings about heterosexuals, but above all do your homework- read it and remember this book is fiction! It tells stories to have an idea of how you should live to stay healthy and love and survive and all should be seen in the way we know best from sience too.).
And at last... if you so much believe in god, then remember Jesus too and the words of love each other, one another like you should love yourself, respect yourself and be kind to others. Maybe you can't understand everything, but if you are a strong person, a fair person, you let them live and stay away of violance. 
The trouble you have home there in Russia is not the fould of gays, jews, blacks and others.. it's your own. 
So stop hiding behind wrong laws and a president who gives a shit on you. 
And yes I know my own president and Bundeskanzlerin is the worst to show support to human rights. WE already tell her this. But the truth is.. those oil thing maybe is the reason why she is like a fallen girl. 
But I can only think that as much as I feel sad for you.. I send you Love & Light to help you to wake up and to shine again instead of hide again. The future is never lost. 

Chen Che Teahouse

If you visite Berlin, you maybe will take a walk around the Hackescher Markt. 
It became a well know hot spot now. Even late at night there are a lot of tourist there.
Although this area is nice but you know it's always a bit difficult to see it, when an area becomes very famous. It always has a danger of getting lost to the people who actually live in the town. 
But then, when you are there you get sure hungry on time after walking and shopping around. Well, there are a lot of restaurants you can go in, all quite expencive and not really the best in quality, but that's nothing new in the modern world on hot spots. I know only one exaption actually, but about that I will tell you later. But if you walk a bit up to another hot spot, the Kastanienallee or also called the Casting- allee, then you maybe walk on the side where a Jazz Club is and right after the entre, there it is in the backyard. First when you look up there you see like noodles hanging on the wall but right in front of you a lot of flowers too and a restaurant which you will like very much. It's vitnamese and not only the location is very nice and has also a little garden in the back too, where you can sitt and listen to birds and get the fresh food and soups and teas... 
All is made by the cook very well and the stuff is nice and you have no problem to talk to each other and because of the way how the location is made, it feels a bit like beeing in a film playing in that area of vitnam in the "good old times". Like that. Of cource, you have place for several people eating together, but best kind to dinner there is to be at maximum- four. Then you really can enjoy the time. 
You can chose from usually three or four day meals but also from a card. If you come after 3 in the afternoon, then I absolute recomend to take the calssic tea time choice, after main dinner. There you get tea, cakes on a plate, so very nice and sweet and good tasted. I always enjoy this "classic tea time". But there are also other sweets you can get after you hade your soup. And those soups by the way are not just a bit of food and the rest is whater. Oh no, you actually eat a lot for a very good price. So after all 5 stars from 5 from me. 
And here is the link to take a look at: 

the pic is from the facebook side.. I try to put more pics on this blog next days..

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chen-Che-Teehaus/162569303770721?fref=ts
Enjoy the stay in any way...
 
LOVE & LIGHT