It has been a while now… and sitting down to write this I feel that I have really missed my dear friend the blog! Not only to share some thoughts and life but also to take a few walks down…
My dear Göteborg.
To wrap up our south-western leg of the Sweden tour, we of course needed to go to Göteborg. This is the city where I first moved in together with my husband (then boyfriend), the city where I started my first full…
Clarion Hotel Arlanda.
More often than not you find yourself needing to spend the night at the airport due to an early flight or delay or some other reason. Being a traveling family, gone are the days when you curl up on top…
A couple of thoughts about being on the road.
So now we are entering the last phase of our extended travel for this year, we only have a couple of weeks left and reality is slowly starting to knock on my door. The reality we left almost 2 months…
EURO16: Pink toilet paper & Louis Vuitton
For a while now I have had an ongoing cough for about 7 days and last night it reached new heights. I sounded like a Volvo Amazon from 1934 with a bad starting engine all night long. In the morning…
EURO16: Military presence and Manly reunion in Paris.
Monday and game day! I wake up quite tired from yesterdays action with the other Swedish fans but nothing can put me down today because it is game day. Sweden’s first game in this championship and Ireland is on the…
Bye Bye my gorgeous north.
And so the time came to say goodbye to Umeå for a bit and travel down south. Before we left of course we made a billion house calls, went to thousands of dinners and “fika” (that is a Swedish word…
Nydala / Umeå / Sweden
This may not be Manly Beach but for me this lake hold quite a lot of significance. Nydala lake is about 2km from my childhood home here in Umeå and I have spent so many summers swimming here, playing volleyball,…
30+h of travel.
Over 30 hours of travel is not fun for anyone and traveling with 2 children does add an element of challenge to the whole thing. We flew Turkish Airlines from Hong Kong to Istanbul and then Istanbul to Stockholm. I…
Hong Kong International.
So it was finally time to go on another epic around the world trip. Given that this time there are 4 of us and not only 2, it has been a pretty hectic prep and first leg of the journey.…