We had a lot of pleasant activities last month. There was a meeting with Terry Pratchett, with his newest book, Snuff. There was the Bfi international film festival. Unfortunately, non-members get the chance to buy tickets much later then members, so we saw just 2 films. But one of them was a very good slovak film, The house by Zuzana Liova.
Three concerts! Misty in roots, Warsaw Village Band (!) and Amsterdam Klezmer band. All the concerts very good. Polish band amazing, Johan liked them very much too.
And i’m writting all this while sitting at London City Aiport, all in the fog, hoping, that they won’t cancel our plane to Stockholm (3 hrs delayed now).
Summer came here finaly
The weather’s great. I spent yesterday’s afternoon in Hyde Park, with my friend. We had a nice walk along the Serpentine and we spent some time in Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – the black barn-like building with a stunning plant explosion in the middle – by Piet Oudolf (world-famous Dutch gardener). The bike ride to get there was nice too (a bit too hot though… but i’m not going to complain, we are not getting a lot of too hot here).
New Forest trip
Johan and I spent last weekend in New Forest – the nature reserve, just 1,5 h from London. It’s a place where ponies, donkeys and cows (cows of a very furry, ginger type, with enormous horns) just walk freely around the place (including towns as well). We stayed just outside Brockenhurst, at a very quiet Graceland Farm. They had donkeys there. The donkeys are the saddest animals ever. They are cute as well.
We rent a tandem, which we used to get around forest for 2 days. It was fun! Yes, I was at the back seat. It was the first time in my life I was biking with my eyes closed (not all the time, no).
They had mushrooms there! I was very happy to find Red-capped scaber stalks (huh, a long name for a kozak) in a big quantity.
We visited Isle of Wight, very briefly. We liked it a lot, I think we’ll come back there for a longer visit – it looks like a very good place for biking.
Films
We went to London International Animation Festival recently. There was a “Focus on Poland” event, with Polish animations, obviously, which I mostly liked. It would be nice though, to see something funny and heart-warming, for a change… But, animations were good (besides being depressing). I liked this one and this one. We also saw one of the international programs, and “the best of”. Well, I liked this one.
We’ll have another film treat in October: BFI London Film Festival. I’m very happy they will show Martin Sulik film.