SwedishTV3´s new interior design show "Kan vi hjälpa till" is an insult to everyone in my profession. To call a song writer who has a collected design experience of  moving house 3-4 times an interior design expert is real insult. I am sure the entertainment value will be great she is after all an entertainer but what other values will she bring ? In the hunt to make as cheap television as possible anyone can do anything and call them selves an expert. Shame on you TV3 for being so cheap you couldn´t call in a real professional.  

Anyone who knows me know I have been a big fan of British Airways for 20 years and have travelled over 500.000 miles in premium cabins with them through the years. No no I am not abandoning them but this time to Sydney I am trying Quatar Airways. My expectations are super high, everyone is ranting and raving about them as beeing the best of the best. My main reason for having an "affair" with another airline is tha BA has drastically changed their loyalty program and my friends, not to the better.................. and they still have a fuel surcharge of 3-4000 on SEK on reward flights on longhaul inspite the oil beeing the cheapest it´s ever been, it´s robbery and a very nasty way of making money off your loyal customers, so maybe it´s time to start looking for a new airline to spend my cash with. I will give a full review her as my trip progresses. Yes I am abit obsessed with premium travel and it´s a big part of my life so hold on BA you might just have lost a very loyal customer.

Today I´m having one of those days where everything and everone irritates me. Grown men and 60+ women on the bus with huge back packs they insist on banging in my face, pensioners in the supermarket at lunchtime (they have all day doing nothing, and have to buy cat food lunchtie ?????) taking for ever to pay with their loose change, people in the 7/11 que that can´t make up their mind on a small or large latte, groups of women walking 5 in with on the side walk, mums with strollers on the bus fighting over space so the driver has to shout "maximum 3 strollers on board", garbage truck going at full throttle 5.25 in the morning, beggers shaking their cup right under my nose and to top it off a  Eu invandrare playing the f......ing accordian on the subway..................

Was watching a swedish tv show last night called "Parneviks" , basically it´s Jesper Parnevik anfd his family living in florida recieving swedish celebrity guests.

This is TV3 - our network for 8,5 years and 130 shows.................. 
Every one that´s ever been on TV3 pops up there. Am I bitter they haven´t asked us ??? Yes you bet I am, it hurts knowing that you are completely forgotten by the network you were faithful to for 8,5 years, and you don´t even get asked to be on such a downmarket cheap production.

Simon and I would most likely have turned it down anyway - Just the thaught of being cramed on norwegian in an economy class seat across the atlantic, being put up at the holiday inn (if you are lucky) and one free day ................. and not getting paid!!!!!!! yes that´s how these production companies make cheap television
"It will be so good for your career"

However it would have been nice to be asked................

Love from 
Tv hasbeen


 

Since I am travelling alone backpacking is a great way to meet people. No no no, at 51 and a very spoiled traveller that´s not really an option so I have modified the backpacking koncept a bit.

Sydney is a long way to fly so flying economy class is not an option, but besides that I am going to be roughing it a bit, I am not staying at the four seasons, I am not having a car service pick me up at the airport and I am not going to wine and dine in expensive five star restaurants.

In fact I am staying like a local in an apartment in Potts Point, I am getting a bus pass and I am going to take my meals at local hanfg outs. I´ve done the sights in Sydney so this time I´m going to hang at the beach - who knows I might take up surfing......... I am not even going to bring 12 pairs of shoes this time - I know a scary concept but hopefully quite liberating. 

 

This picture pretty much sums up what gay berlin is all about. The whole gay scene at first glance seems very exciting but after a while it becomes a bit owerwhelming. Everything is geared towards sex, sex and than again sex........................ The second you check in to the hotel you are sized up by the staff and other hotel guests and the hotel staff volunteer information on the best dark rooms and party/sex clubs. 

Obviously I was curious and checked out some bars and hey I am no prude but  the whole experience became a bit seedy so after peeping for a few minutes I had had enough................ It all seemed a bit to easy and for me it kind of took away the excitment. The exciting flirty tension in the air just wasn´t there - bang on seemed to be the koncept and to tell you the truth for me it was quite a turn off actually so I got out of there quite quickly. 

I am sure that if I had had more time in Berlin I could have found different more suttle venues more suitable for an old fart like me - or maybe not, maybe Berlin is the IRL version of Grindr and that´s the whole attraction.

 The excitment I think lies in the "forbidden" and when everything is allowed and available 24/7 the excitment wears off very quickly...............