By Kristina Korsholm July 19, 2014 in Life

Vacation Coma in Denmark

Summer in Denmark…. And it’s even hotter than Stevie Wonder’s ‘Hotter than July’ Album’. I can hardly remember the weather being this blessed.

I spent a few days in Copenhagen working and taking the last few meetings I possibly could before the Danish population dove directly into ‘Vacay Coma’. Meaning, you cannot reach anyone until August 4th. Phones, emails. Nothing is answered. Period.

Annoying? Hell yeah! But probably very healthy. Remember, that we Danes are the happiest people on Earth… (!) The weird thing is, that I do not recall what it feels like being on a real vacation. Going somewhere I cannot be reached for a long time. Taking a break and going to some place, where I am not sort of working or doing work related things. Is that bad or good? Who’s to judge… I love my job, so perhaps it’s not all bad to do vacay /work stuff …?

However, after a tough spring I feel beat on all levels and I think a vacation with my loved ones might work wonders. So instead of planning a ton of social events in heels, hot pants and martinis I decide to stay with my mother and my step dad in Raageleje at the beautiful north coast where everything is very chilled in sandals and no makeup.

I sleep into – whenever I feel like, I swim in the ocean many times a day, I can read 3 news papers without being disturbed and I catch myself getting upset about how shallow and limited the journalistic sources of the right wing news paper is when it comes to the horrific Malaysian Flight crash over Ukraine compared to the more left wing news paper. Later I get upset about the same issue when it comes to the coverage of the Gaza strip.

I get upset and feel stupid to not be somewhere more important than here….. But in between my tantrums about politics I take a moment to chill. I choose to spend my awaken moments with some of the most important people in the world to me: my family. We BBQ, I tan topless, we small talk and we talk about important things.

It seems small midst all of the craziness that is happening right now. But they – my loved ones matter to me whatever happens. And perhaps especially in terror and war moments of realizations like this week … If we don’t have our loved ones, then what do we have…?

Nite nite and much love from Raageleje… 😉

xx KK