22/05/2007

Hello Deviants!

Hope everyone is grand, and your preparations for this years festival are going well.
My name's Hannah and I'm writing to appeal for a little advice on Trollhatten and the local area.

As some of you may know, i plan to set up a French cafe on site for the first week of the festival. It will be a venue for people to come and share anecdotes, stories, theories and questions around the theme of identity and will become very much an anthropologic investigation. I will be taking on a new identity myself for the duration of the festival, and the cafe (traditionally a venue for discussion) will provide a relaxed forum for discussion, (as well as being a great place for all the artists to come and get their coffee!). I won't say too much about the project as I want you all to come to the cafe and ask me about it in person!

But on a logistics level does anyone know how easily I can obtain supplies such as fresh coffee, wine, basic foods etc (at a reasonable price) to sell in my cafe without too much of an early morning hike every day?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers!
See you all soon,
Hannah.

1 comment:

bjsc said...

Dear HAnna,

there are lots of shops only about 5/10 min walk away.

Buying wine is a different matter.
to get any alcohol above3% you have to go to the special state-run off-licence. this place has specific opening times, and is really quite expensive.(no competition - so no low prices) i would suggest that you import your own wine in bulk. you will end up spending much less money. talk to fred about putting it in the shipping with the rest of the art...
the Swedes tend to take a car over to Denmark, stock up on booze and drive back... so maybe a train to Malmo and across, or a train to Helsingborg and a ferry to Helsingor might be an option? either way, its not too far, and the trains are fast and not too expensive.