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One of the things everyone going to Åland should do is enjoy nature. Ramsholmen is a nature reserve located only a few kilometers from the island’s capital Mariehamn. Here you can take a walk around the reserve to relish the green and lush nature, with flowers everywhere during the summertime and a mirrorlike sea on calm days….
The Vårdö Church is a 15th-century stone church, also known as the stone chapel Sundsskären. It is a part of the Sund-Vårdö Congregation, which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It is on the island of Lövö in Vårdö Municipality in the northeastern part of the Åland Islands. The church has been consecrated to…
Welcome to the home of Moomin! This is Naantali, in Swedish Nådendal, in southwestern Finland. This seaside resort town has become famous worldwide due to the Moomin World theme park. With a population of around 20.000 inhabitants, it is a quiet small town, but the temporary population of both the town and the surrounding archipelago…
We are asking for your help to try to find a stolen sculpture by Finnish artist Vesa Huumonen (1951-2021). Feel free to share this post and let’s hope that this piece of art finds its way back to its owner, the artist’s widow, and Susann’s aunt. 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 ⬇️ The sculpture in question is a…
Hyvinkää, known in Swedish as Hyvinge, is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland. With a population of around 47,000 inhabitants, it is the sixth-largest urban center in the region. The city is located approximately 50 kilometers north of the capital, Helsinki. Hyvinkää is a major commercial and industrial hub, and…
Xemxija is a locality and seaside resort located in the Northern Region of Malta. The village is situated along the western shores of Xemxija Bay, which is a small bay within the much larger St. Paul’s Bay. It is today considered a suburb, making up the western part of the town of St. Paul’s Bay….
Mäntsälä is a municipality and a locality of around 11,800 inhabitants in the Uusimaa region of Finland. The municipality as a whole has a population of over 20,000 residents. Its location along an intersection between several larger roads has been an important part of the locality’s more recent development. The old main road between Helsinki…
Vira Bruk, also known as Wira Bruk, is a small settlement in the historical province of Uppland. It is in Österåker Municipality, just to the northeast of the Swedish capital Stockholm. The village is the location of a former ironworks that was once the center of the production of swords and bayonets for the Swedish…
Today we are looking back at our trip to Skaraborg last year. During the spring and summer of 2021, we enjoyed many trips, both short and long. We really tried to be as careful as possible since the outbreak of the pandemic, especially after almost getting stuck on the island of Malta in 2020 when…
Badhusparken, or the Bath House Park, is one of the older tourist spots in Mariehamn. It also has another name, Engelska parken, the English Park. There are some rather prominent buildings in the park. It is home to the bathhouse pavilion, the Swedish consulate, “Doktorsvillan”, and Åland Maritime Museum. It is also one of the…
A bit inland from the Swedish western coast is the locality of Ödsmål. From here it is not far to the community of Talbo. It is along the shores of the lake Stora Hällungen and it has easy access to the surrounding nature. There are around 30 year-around inhabitants here, but more people arrive during…
Now it’s time for us to tell you about a place that might get you to forget Silicon Valley for a few seconds. Kycklingedalen is a small community on the outskirts of the locality Ödsmål. If you translate the name from Swedish, it means the Chicken Valley in English. This community, which mostly consists of…