And looking for stylish accommodation on a budget? The newly opened KEX hostel is a "trendy social hostel" in Reykjavík and makes me want to play tourist in my hometown. With various choices of rooms, from dorms to hotel style double rooms with private wc's, they cater for every preference. They have an organic café (their breakfast doesn't look like anything I've had in hostels around the world, and I've been in a few!), a gym, a hair salon, a restaurant and a music venue that recently hosted some of the events of the Reykjavík music mess.
The Kex logo
Kex means biscuit. The building used to be a biscuit factory.
A dorm room
A hotel room
From one of the hotel rooms
Yoghurt with fresh berries and muesli served in a vintage jam jar... Wouldn't it be perfect when you get friends over for brunch?
I'm guessing you're itching to book your room pronto, so head on over here quick! They're on facebook too.
Here's a little music video with Blonde Redhead. I'm only just getting into them now, but they've been around for a few years. This song is called Here Sometimes.
The weather was exceptionally good at Glastonbury music festival this year and the style seems to have been cut-offs, cut-offs and cut-offs. Somehow I think the rain allows for a bit more creativity and variety, but here's a look at a few of the best from Elle UK.
Kouichi Okamoto is a wonderful japanese designer who has, amongst other things, created a record where the grooves form a circle and thus it plays each track endlessly... so you can listen to the rythm of the falling rain forever and ever...
Or, if you crave more variety, you can put this CD on which has 99 tracks that each play a different scale. When using the "random" function, the CD will automatically select random tones, and make a new melody.
... are so cool. I'm totally loving the style of Coco Sumner (of I blame Coco) and Maja Ivarsson (of The Sounds). I always wanted to be a singer in a rock band, hmmmm... think I can still make it?
My husband sent me out of the house to have a relaxed cup of coffee and escape reality for about an hour. I was wearing a black dress and leggings, threw on my beige trench and grey boots. Headed downtown in my silver grey station car, stopped by the recycling station to drop off an old desk, then parked in a parking garage but bumped my car on a concrete column in the process. At this stage I was in a quiet rage, desperate not to think about how much it will cost to have this fixed (fortunately it was just a scratch so I hope I can get away with a good wash and polish). As I walked the short distance to my favorite book café I looked at my reflection in the shop windows, my sharply cut shoulder length hair matching my outfit, my fatigue clearly visible on my non made-up face. 'Motherhood', I half growled, half laughed inside.
On my way home, Nirvana's 'come as you are' played on the radio. I sang out loud, I really got into it, I was taken back to the time where I was starting my adult life, in my future I would never shout at my kids, I would never wear beige, I was always going to be the coolest person ever (whatever that entailed), I would always have time for loving my husband (energy was not something I lacked in those days) and I would never worry about trivial things, such as housework and money.
I laughed out loud in a beautiful moment of self realisation, acceptance and joy!
