Björk posters are everywhere in Vilnius, Lithuania, where we are now!
It is a charming city in an unassuming way. I went to the old part of town yesterday to have dinner with a friend. We had a nice evening.
Today I have mainly been reading Moominpappa’s Memoires, which I bought in the Moomin store in Helsinki airport, where we stopped briefly yesterday. A shame we had to cancel the concert there.
When Björk told me, in Shanghai, that we would have a concert in Finland this summer, she added: “Where the Moomin Elfs live!”
I think she is a Moomin fan, like me. Both of us bought some Moomin stuff in Tokyo - in Kiddyland, which is a famous toy store there.
Like Björk, Muminpappa has had voice problems. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to his Memoirs:
“[Moominpappa] had never been ill before and took a very serious view of the matter.
“When his throat was at his sorest, he asked Moominmamma to fetch Moomintroll and Snufkin and Sniff, and they all assembled around his bed. He then exhorted them never to forget that they had had a privilege of spending their early lives in the company of a genuine adventurer, and asked Sniff to bring him the meerschaum tram from the chest of drawers in the drawing room. But Moominpappa was so hoarse that no one understood what he wanted.”
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