When we arrived silence overwhelmed me and it took me a couple of hours to understand what the game was about: you are the pawn and nature, the Queen of the board.
The only way to enjoy? submit you, stop rushing hanging on the shelf of things that you will not need (if you think about it, there are many more than we think they are) and focus on listening look, be
At Juvet Landscape Hotel achievement is not thinking why anxiety fades among poplars, apple trees and hazelnut trees; the world falls silent and the sound of the forest explodes, It's true what they say: when you don't think is when you are really thinking.
I leave the metaphor for a while and let's go to the pit, that Here we have come to travel: “Juvet Landscape is the first hotel-landscape of Europe and the idea is to create a space in which the modern architecture meets the historical culture and nature in its purest state”, tells us Christopher Schønefeldm (chef and owner) in a weird dinner around a huge shared table, after spending the day (he) fishing and collecting mushrooms. On wood, salmon, venison and natural wines; freshly cut firewood, furs for the cold, candles without cheesy messages—everything is authentic, that kind of authenticity that is far (very far) from the hands of any interior designer.
Juvet Landscape Hotel, Norway.
the trip is already steeped in liturgy: layover in Amsterdam and from there to the airport of Alesund, beautiful scene landing: The Atlantic Road, one of the most spectacular roads on the planet, winding through the sea, thick green rocks and hundreds of islands dotting the horizon with questions. On the plane, fishermen without much desire to chat, seem the crew of good sea, by Antonio Lucas: silence, red wine and more past than future. I don't remember a trip like this.
“How nature deifies us with a few vulgar elements! Give me good health and a single day, and I will make a fool of all the pomp of emperors."
It is Ralph Waldo Emerson in Nature (published by Nórdica Libros) and here, in the last corner of the town of Valldal, one begins to understand that maybe it's true, that we really don't need more than good health and a single day. Christopher collects wild flowers, mushrooms and herbs, kitchen grilled next to his son over the fire, he walks deep on the snow, they are not in a hurry. good health and a single day
We met Juvet because of Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014).
We got to know Juvet because of ex machine, the marvelous debut Alex Garland with Óscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander; not much later he shot Devs (again science fiction a bit philosophical) of course this guy likes the woods. In the movie the hotel seems like a dream and a dream is: here we live to the sound of time and it is the weather that rules, a hot coffee for the cold, walks under the stars and the songs of the water (like that great album that Los Planetas just scored).
We stayed in a Landscape Room with views of the river and the mountains, there are also houses hanging from the trees and a 'writer's village' where I imagine us in an endless winter, a stack of books and nothing else to do but be. Traveling is also this. Traveling is also getting to know each other. We walked around the stream listening to the rustling of the moss, mathematical harmony of wild nature, that kind of beauty that doesn't fit on a canvas because it can't be counted. There is not a day that I do not remember this trip. Not a single day.