2018 is passed and gone, so let’s look at what the upcoming year has to offer! This post was actually supposed to be published the first of January, and today it’s the seventeenth so you can maybe already figure out that blogging and traveling haven’t been my top priority the last couple of weeks. I think the main reason for that is the fact that my brain doesn’t work when there’s chaos around me, and there has been a lot…
I’m not sure how it happened, but there’s only one day left of 2018. Crazy, I know, but it’s that time of the year when everybody starts to look back at the past year and make a summary – and that’s exactly what I’m going to do in this post. In 2018, I went on 14 different trips within 6 different countries and spent a total of 59 days away from home. I’m honestly pleased that I’ve managed to travel…
Christmas is just around the corner and this is my last Christmas Special! I’ve already mentioned that I’m not much for traditions, but I think I still celebrate Christmas as a typical Swede. This year, I’ve traveled to the west coast of Sweden to celebrate with my boyfriends family and we’re going to eat a lot of food, watch Kalle Anka at three a clock and get a visit from Santa and exchange Christmas gifts just as about every household…
According to a SIFO-survey, 20% of the Swedes celebrate Christmas abroad this year. Miami, Phuket, and Gran Canaria are at the top of the list on destinations where the Swedes travel most during the holidays. What do all those places have in common? Sun, beaches and a climate that can’t be offered in Sweden in December. I think everyone has their own expectations on how Christmas should be celebrated depending on where they are from (hands up if you ever used the phrase: “It should…
It’s only two weeks left until Christmas and everywhere around me, people are freaking out on what to get their loved ones this year. Can we all just stop with this sick need for consummation around Christmas? How much we love and appreciate the people around us are not measured in how much money we spend or on how many presents we buy, period. In the same time, I know that people aren’t going to stop giving Christmas presents anytime soon…
Just as about 20 000 Swedes do every year, I’ve celebrated one Christmas in Thailand. The year was 2012, and I thought we could take a look at that trip in today’s Travel Throwback Thursday! This was my second time in Thailand (read about my first time here) and this time I traveled to the island Koh Samet together with my family. We got there with a speedboat that dropped us off so far from the beach that we had to walk…
Hey guys, it’s December so bring on those Christmas feelings! I thought I’m going to do a Christmas related blog post every Sunday until Christmas and in this first one, I thought I should share information about all the Christmas markets I’ve found in Stockholm this year! I’ve already been to a few of them (photos in this post are from Skansen’s and Stortorget’s Christmas markets) and I’ll hope I get to catch some more since I still haven’t got that…
In today’s Travel Throwback Thursday I want to look back at my trip to Copenhagen in 2016. To even understand this trip though, we have to look back even further to the summer of 2015 when I was one of the summer workers at the amusement park Gröna Lund in Stockholm. Gröna Lund had put up goals in customer satisfaction and sales that summer, and if we reached those goals all employees would receive a trip to the amusement park…
Let’s do another really old travel throwback! This Thursday, I thought that we could take a look at my first time to Egypt in 2004 when I visited Hurghada and Cairo. My parents got married at the airport just before departure so this was some sort of wedding vacation together with many of our relatives which were really fun since me and my brother (8 and 4 years old at the time) had many adults to play in the pool with, haha. We…
I might be biased, but Stockholm is one of the prettiest cities on earth. I just love the fact that Stockholm has so many historical buildings, big parks you can roam around freely in and that it’s surrounded by water – and all of this things make it a great place to photograph material to your Instagram! You have probably already heard about the cherry trees in the King’s garden, the walkway Monteliusvägen at Södermalm or the most photographed spot…