Ahava
Travel
Simply Droog
Things are going on, things start to get settled. Tomorrow i have appointment with the appartment owner ( the three-room appartment...) and then we'll go see the bank together... as you can guess, i've decided to buy the appartment. This means quite big changes for me if it works out: moving about 60 kilometers away, a new town and area. More space, more rooms, new neighbours and a lot more than now ( where i live now, we are only five people...and five cats!). I hope i'll get the loan and if so, i'll really look forward to move in the new appartment , hopefully by end of this year.
This weekend is a long one, tomorrow is a public holiday in Vaud. Yesterday i went with a friend to Zurich in the morning to see the second part of the "simply droog" exhibition at the museum Bellerive. We have visited the first part at the Mudac in Lausanne about three weeks ago. I just loved both parts : this group of designers transformes items of every day life, reinvents them, giving a lot of inspiration. I bought the catalogue and will certainly apply a few of their ideas in the new appartment...
After the exhibition we walked to the Niederdorf, a part of Zurich's downtown full of little shops, cafés, restaurants, secondhand shops. It's the trendy area and always a lot of fun to stroll through the shops and have a look around. People seem to be more "freaky", clothing in kind of a different fashion to what we see in the french part of Switzerland, but i said to my friend, that probably we don't see the extraordinary things anymore when we walk through Lausanne or Vevey or Morges because we are deep in our thoughts, absorbed by our work, our routine and our problems. It's only when we get out of the daily routine that we might be more open to other views, like on a day-trip to Zurich. She agreed totally.
We took the train back at about 4:30 pm, arriving at home at around 7.30 pm, quite exhausted but happy. It was a fun day, and we should do day-trips like this a little more often. That's an advantage living in such a small country: take the train in the morning, go to another city, walk around, see an exhibition, do some shopping and go back in the evening. We decided that next time we'll go to Basel and Weill-am-Rhein ( Vitra-Museum and Fondation Beyeler ).
