Day 6 in the big brother house. Tac and Ben succumb to the draw of Swedish meatballs and Billy bookcases - yes - we visit IKEA.
What a pleasure this was, though. Easy to get to – taxi dropped us off at the door; no wait at the checkout and a taxi waiting outside the door to take us home. Car park completely underground so the store looked eerily empty until we got inside.
Apart from that, this was just like an IKEA experience in London – floor and store layout very similar; products identical with a few concessions to local taste (chopstick holders in kitchen section); same silly names for everything. A nice touch – food and drink being sold in several locations along the way through the store - so you can get sustenance and recharge those shopping batteries before tackling the furniture pickup.
Prices were very close to UK ones, so I don’t think IKEA can be a cheap place for the locals – maybe it’s more of an upmarket, foreign design place? Anyway, like everywhere, this IKEA was very busy with lots of eager purchasers loading their yellow bags with napkins and tea lights.
We bought all those kitchen and bathroom things that we kept saying weren’t worth shipping over. We now own aluminium toilet brush holders in two continents. Resisted the meatballs and those double chocolate biscuits. What will power.
What a pleasure this was, though. Easy to get to – taxi dropped us off at the door; no wait at the checkout and a taxi waiting outside the door to take us home. Car park completely underground so the store looked eerily empty until we got inside.
Apart from that, this was just like an IKEA experience in London – floor and store layout very similar; products identical with a few concessions to local taste (chopstick holders in kitchen section); same silly names for everything. A nice touch – food and drink being sold in several locations along the way through the store - so you can get sustenance and recharge those shopping batteries before tackling the furniture pickup.
Prices were very close to UK ones, so I don’t think IKEA can be a cheap place for the locals – maybe it’s more of an upmarket, foreign design place? Anyway, like everywhere, this IKEA was very busy with lots of eager purchasers loading their yellow bags with napkins and tea lights.
We bought all those kitchen and bathroom things that we kept saying weren’t worth shipping over. We now own aluminium toilet brush holders in two continents. Resisted the meatballs and those double chocolate biscuits. What will power.
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