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God Jul, or Merry Christmas, from the Åland Islands. We hope that you are all having a nice weekend no matter if you celebrate Christmas or not. Maybe you do like us and mix a few traditions to be able to spend a nice weekend with the family. For us, it is already evening and…
Christmas is something many of us in the Nordics associate with cold temperatures and hopefully some snowfall. That is not what you get when visiting Malta in December. It might be winter with occasional rainfall, but it is still something some of us associate with summer temperatures back home. Yes, it has been an unusually…
One thing that is easy to forget when visiting Malta is how short the distances actually are. Exploring Malta on foot should in many regards be quite easy. It is usually only the temperature and the amount of traffic that might cause obstacles to any hiking plan. Our visit to Marsaskala in December turned out…
There is that special feeling when you return to a place abroad that you have visited before. That familiarity with the surrounding, knowing where to go, where to eat, and especially where to find the playgrounds. We had visited Marsaskala two times before this trip and visiting our friend here has been a nice way…
This year, we had for a long time been tempted to go somewhere warmer for a week in December. We had even decided which week we should go, the week before the Christmas chaos starts. But where to go? We were for a long time looking at the Canary Islands and especially the islands of…
Trondheim is with its around 186.000 inhabitants the largest city in Trøndelag County in central Norway. This also makes it the fourth-largest urban area in Norway, after Oslo, Bergen, and Stavanger. This city was for some centuries the capital of Viking Age Norway, with the important Trondheim Fjord as the main waterway for travelers. Today…
Grong is a locality and the administrative center of the Grong Municipality. It is also known under the name Mediå, which is the local district that includes the center and most of the residential buildings. It is in the district of Namdalen in Trøndelag County, in central Norway. The around 1100 inhabitants live along the…
How did we end up in the town of Halmstad and the province of Halland? Our summer of 2021 didn’t really start the way we had hoped it would. The pandemic had been going on for about a year and once we hoped for it to decline, our neighbor in Kista had some troubles in…
In the northern part of Trøndelag County in Central Norway, you will find the Namdalen Valley and the village of Namsskogan. This small village has a population of around 230 inhabitants and it is surrounded by the river Namsen and its many rapids. A Short History of Namsskogan The area where the village of Namsskogan…
Today we will continue to look back at our travels last year. Our summer vacation in 2021 did include some interesting surprises. Not even the pandemic or a fire in our neighbor’s apartment could keep us from traveling. Exploring the West Coast of Sweden became our main objective, all the while we were enjoying the…
Katterjåkk (also spelled Katterjokk) is a tourist destination in the far north of Sweden, close to the border with Norway. It is known as a “turiststation” in Swedish, a place offering accommodation in the Swedish wilderness. It is run by Friluftfrämjandet, a non-profit organization organizing outdoor activities. The railway between Kiruna and Narvik goes through…
In northern Sweden, right next to the Torne River and the border with Finland, is the locality of Övertorneå. It is located in what is known as the Torne Valley and its name is Matarengi in the local language Meänkieli. This was also its former name in Swedish. Övertorneå has a population of around 1700…