Quick update.
- Christmas markets: candies, wool socks, wool pullovers, wool ponchos, wool hats & gloves, mist, fir branch decorations, flowers, very swedish t-shirts, nuts, smoked herrings, sausages, MSC certified fish&chips. and this ->.
- Candles: on the grass in the main square, all around the open-air ice-skating ground, on the trees in the main shopping road, on a conical structure simulating a christmas tree. more lights on the buildings, on the benches, on the bridge. Malmo looks like a peaceful wooden village.
- A girl acting live mannequin for a lingerie shop. Crowds of COP15 participants taking pictures.
- Music: a marching band of punkish-looking youngsters (with cheerleaders and banjo) playing swing and dixieland - absolutely entertaining. a cappella choir singing traditional Santa Lucia songs from the balcony of what I think is the town hall. A Peruvian band playbacking "el condor pasa" over and over again (must be some kind of extreme sport). 6 girls with candles revisiting traditional christmas carols to protest again COP15, and the world leaders, and the UN. Everything very spontaneous. The musicians were clearly having fun (except the Peruvians, I reckon), and the public was enjoying it.
What I learned today.
- The music that should be made is the one 3-year old children like to listen to.
- If you want to ask a live mannequin, you'd better be quick. The shop might close.
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