Bye-Bye Summer

So the summer is officially over. Are you sad about the fact? Me? Au contraire.  I am looking forward to autumn with its gray and foggy days  and spider nets beaded with morning dew…  With leaves turning all shades of amber…. With streets shining after the evening shower reflecting lights of dressed-up shop windows. No, really. 

Ok, I am being a little mischievous here (when am I not?). Writing that, I am keeping one eye on my watch and a suitcase at the door… The thing is I am leaving in a half an hour… I am going back to summer. No, I am not traveling back in time; I am flying to Central Asia this afternoon.  Just to clear the picture: the local weather forecast for today : +30C, Sunny..Ha!

Enjoy the autumn! I will send a postcard from summer!

Love,

AB

Surreal Camping Rimini

Baden (Switzerland) is a city which - once discovered - never really lets you go. Cozy streets of the old part with its welcoming cafes and cultural venues: province at its best, familiar, yet never boring and capable to surprise again and again. 

Every summer Stella Mark Palino Brunner (A former clown, mime and rope dancer, an actor, director and theater manager, and a symbol of Baden since years) puts up a summer theatre, bringing together friends, professional artists, musicians, acrobats under the same roof. This summer is the roof (or rather say many little camping tents) of Camping Rimini. 

 Image www.baden.ch

This contemporary theatrical work is a reflection on the possible and impossible coexistence of people.  Camping site - the model of our colorful and complexed complex  world.  Grotesque, political, surrealistic, funny with a touch of fatalism - for two hours Camping Rimini keeps you keen and wondering “What comes next?”... Life-size giraffes, piano soaring above spectators, rope dancers, racing cars – what else is needed to keep you entertained? :-)  

  Nadine Tobler and Yannick Longet

 Maren Gamper in a retro futuristic suit is soaring above spectators while playing piano

If you happen to be around Baden these days do go and see Camping Rimini summer theatre. The show goes on till September 11^th 2011. For detailed information  go to http://www.sommertheater-baden.ch .

Just a few hundred meters from the camping site there was another wonderful event last night:  two years anniversary of Frau Meise, a little cafe and a design shop in the heart of the old Baden. Here antique furniture and fresh homemade cupcakes meet young designers from all over Europe. Regular concerts take place as well. For more info go to http://www.fraumeise.ch. 

Gotta run now. Have a nice Sunday, everybody!
Love,
A.B.

Bohemian lifestyle

“Bohemian” as in Bohemia, Czech Republic, that is. With a season of garden parties around the corner there will be a lot of glasses to wash up. Despite the following morning hassle I am not ready to compromise: no plastic cups for me, please; when it comes to a nice drink it should come in a nice glass.

I do appreciate sleek lines of modern design, but there is something fascinating about the intricacy of an old glass. Maybe the secret is in the loving hands that have made it. Or the stories it could have overheard in the passage of years. Or is it a musical sound spilling over after a gentle clinking?…

With a good quality glass available practically everywhere at affordable prices, antique crystal glass is not much of a luxury anymore. And if antique shops (Lucerne is the best place to go antique window shopping for me) sell it for a head-spinning prices, there are many flea markets in peripheries that sell them out next to nothing, especially the unpaired ones. I love to set my table with mismatching items: we are talking bohemian after all, aren’t we? ;-)

Lovely Sunday evening, everyone!

Chin-chin!

AB