International Towel Day & Swedish book exchange.

Good morning. I just got up and sitting here with my cup of coffee and thinking tomorrow can't come soon enough. Not like I want to skip this day, the weather is perfect for biking and park reading so I will have good day before work. Tomorrow is International Towel Day! I don't know at all how big this day is in Germany or Berlin for that sake, but it's a day that I've been celebrating since highschool when I found out about it.

Every year, on the 25th of May, it's Towel Day. So what is Towel Day?
It's a tribute to the author Douglas Adams. Adams wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy among other things and died the 11th of May 2001. Two weeks later the first Towel Day was celebrated in the memory of Adams and his epic book series. This day is easy take part in, just have a towel with you all day. In the Hitchhiker's Guide a towel is the most important thing you can have. Read more here.
This is not a big thing in Sweden either, but me and my friends carry a towel on the day and every year we always find a use for these towels like to sit on while outside or to dry stuff when we spill and so on. We also talk about Adams and all the books in the Hitchhiker's series. Celebrate you too and see what how great a towel can be to have.

Tomorrow is also a book exchange day in Sweden, Stora Bokbytardagen, so me and Charlotte (a woman that has a Swedish online bookshop and is also opening a Swedish bookshop here in Berlin) are going to be at Boxhagener platz, F'hain, and change Swedish books with anyone who wants to join us. If you have some Swedish books and are in Berlin tomorrow, come to Boxi and get new books. We will be there from 12.
I'm looking forward meeting people and chat books all day. Hopefully the weather will stay this good also.

While I'm looking forward to tomorrow I will take my bike for a ride, find a park and read A Game of Thrones, the first book from the A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin until it's time for work. I just started reading the book and I'm so hooked. I'm (almost) surprised how good it is. Everyone should read it and I should continue reading it right now. Bis bald!