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From: "Klaus M. Fink" <klfi@...>
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [newnordicroots] New member

: I hope Korrö will be a bit easier than Rome right now....
Not as crowded, that's for sure. As for ease, I can tell in Korrö it was all
fine, except that you need your own car (or vehicle anyway), for there is
only a bus going to the place, and noone seems to know when it will pass. On
the final day there was a meeting of all musicians (spelmansstämma), not
only the ones playing on the stages, but all the people willing to play an
instrument, and this was in a church about 10 km from Korrö, and being
Sunday no bus was running before the late afternoon. So we tried to reach
the church on foot and gave up after one hour of walking.
Another point that needs some organization is food, as there is virtually no
grocer's shop in Korrö: a couple of rural bars and restaurants will soon
unburden your wallet of unnecessary money, unless you thought ahead and
brought along some supplies.
The only shop is a sort of tobacconist which may also serve as
cash-dispenser; otherwise there's no cashpoint at all.
As for accomodation, there's only a camping site (well, I read on the
website there's also a hostel, but I don't remember anyone but the artists
going there), a few hundred metres from the stages; it lies by the forest,
in a peaceful atmosphere - only, after three nights of fiddling you'll be
wandering in the woods looking for some proper silence.
All being very bucolic, the showers were just two pipes by a small pond, en
plen air (not for the shy) and supplied with refreshing cool water (not for
the shivering).
As everyone who's traveled to Sweden in the summertime knows, there's plenty
of mosquitos: so you'd better make sure your tent has an inner net to keep
them outside.
The stages themselves are set in the buildings of the village, which is, I
gather, an old traditional Swedish village with all the workshops still
standing: so there is the Smithy, the Mill, the Saw-Mill, the Dye-House, the
Barn etc. It's a nice place to spend the weekend anyway.

Jacopo
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