During this summer, I took a university course in tourism. It was really interesting and I actually learned a lot, and now I want to share some of that knowledge! Let’s start with a theory that there are 15 different types of travelers, or leisure based tourist-roles as they describe it in my course book “Tourism a Modern Synthesis” (Stephen J. Page & Joanne Conell). I do not agree with this theory 100%, mainly because I don’t like the idea of…
On today’s travel throwback Thursday I want to look back on my three week trip to England in 2010. I was 13 years old at the time and I went on a language trip to the small town Torquay on the south coast of England, which means that I stayed with a British family and went to school for a couple of hours each day and tried to learn as much English as possible. This was actually my first time abroad without my parents and…
On our sixth day on Crete, our rental car “Sleepy Gonzales” had to work those hills again. Me, my boyfriend and his brother wanted to get out of the charter bubble for a while so we got up before sunrise to go on a road trip and explore the island beyond the tourist streets surrounding our hotel. We witnessed the sun rise above the hills as we drove by and stopped in the middle of nowhere where there was a sign that…
Let’s continue with the travel diaries from my Crete-trip! We spent most of our fifth day on Crete at Baja Beach Club. It was the place that I had thought was a luxurious hotel during our morning walk our second day, but it turns out it was a beach club where anyone could rent a lounger. Most of our travel party (you know, we were 12 people) was happy with staying at our hotel but after being there for two days straight some of…
It’s Thursday so let’s look back at one of my past travels. In October 2013 me and my family rented an apartment in Avsallar, Turkey for my dads birthday. We were there for about a week and spent most of the time by the beach or by the apartment complex pool (which had water slides!). You should know by now that I’m an active type of traveller so we obviously also did some spontaneous activities like going up in the mountain…
Last weekend I got back to Gotland for the second time this year. This time I only had a brief visit to my favorite island since the main point with this trip was to compete in the Swedish championships in varpa. We got there late in the evening on Friday the 31st of August and left again in the afternoon on Sunday the 2nd of September and spent most of the time at the competition field, but I still had some time to…
In 2005 every child’s dream came true for me – I got to visit Disneyland. I went to the one in Paris with my family and we stayed at one of the hotels close to the park and pretty much lived on Disneyland our whole vacation. I have to say that my memories from this trip are sort of a blur (just like the scanned photos in this post, haha) which might be because I was nine years old or…
Day 8 on Gotland was our last one. We started the day by cleaning out the apartment we had rented, meaning that we had to say goodbye to this beautiful balcony view: When the keys had been returned we drove into Visby and had some lunch at my favorite restaurant in the entire world: Crêperie & Logi, or “Creperiet”. Creperiet serves crepes (shocking, I know!) and they are just incredibly delicious! I think I’ve tried every single…
Let’s continue with my Gotland updates! I got home over a month ago so it’s time to speed this up, haha. I’m actually going back there this weekend, but until then, here is how day 5,6 and 7 looked like during my latest trip there: DAY 5 & 6 I’m combining day 5 and 6 since I ended up with an empty memory card from both of these days, haha. We spent day 5 at the same…
Let’s travel back in time a bit to my fourth day on Gotland! Time really flies because it was actually over a month ago I was there (!!) so I think it’s really time to start to blog about everything I did – especially since I’m going back to Gotland in two weeks, haha. This is what our fourth day on the island looked like! We started off by visiting the “capital” of Gotland, Visby since my boyfriend…