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We had two wishes for our first full day in Agadir. It was time to get to know the city and prepare for the adventure that had just begun. It was also a big wish from Little A to spend the day at the swimming pool. One thing was for sure, the clouds were gone…
When we woke up early on a Saturday morning in Sweden, we were not only greeted by the start of the February school break. We were also greeted by a temperature of eleven degrees below freezing. But we had not planned to stay in Sweden and freeze during the coming week. No, instead we had…
Tureholm is a castle just to the west of Trosa along the Baltic Sea coast of the province of Södermanland in eastern Sweden. This is an 18th-century castle that is today privately owned. Its history is, however, much longer. It stretches back to at least the 14th century when it had the name Gäddeholm. This…
Kalajoen Hietasärkät is by many known by the name Kalajoki, the name of the nearby town. These are the long sandy beaches of Kalajoki, stretching along the Baltic Sea coast of the Northern Ostrobothnia Region. These long beaches are at the center of a larger resort area along the coast, with a large camping site,…
Heinola is a town and the seat of the local municipality in the Päijät-Häme Region in southern Finland. It lies just a short drive north of the region’s capital Lahti. This is a unilingual part of Finland, with Finnish as the main language. Around 14.000 of the municipality’s 18.300 inhabitants live in the town. The…
Raahe is a town along the western coast of Finland, in the region of North Ostrobothnia. The town is also known by its Swedish name, Brahestad, from its founder – the Swedish statement and Governor General of Finland, Count Per Brahe the Younger. It is known for being one of only 10 remaining wooden towns…
The village of Nuorgam lies in the far north of Finland, far within the Arctic Circle. Well, this is as far north as you will be able to go in Finland. The village is at the northernmost point of Finland, which also makes it the northernmost village in the European Union. Just on the other…
Muodoslompolo is a small settlement in the province of Norrbotten, the far north of Sweden. It is a part of Pajala Municipality, but its population has decreased below 50 people, resulting in no official number of inhabitants. Today there is the white wooden church that watches over the few remaining inhabitants. The settlement lies just…
Varkaus is an industrial town in Northern Savonia in eastern Finland. This is a town that has developed in the vicinity of the paper mills. The town is the seat of the local municipality, a municipality with a population of around 19.700 inhabitants. About 18.300 of the inhabitants live in the town itself. The municipality…
Niskanpää is a small settlement on the western shores of the Torne River, the river marking the border between Sweden and Finland. Here in the far north of Sweden, in the province of Norrbotten, the summer nights are almost never-ending and the winter nights are almost completely dark. The settlement is just a few kilometers…
Verona, the home of Romeo and Juliet, is a city in northern Italy. It is located in Veneto, right between the major cities of Milan and Venice, and with the famous Lake Garda just a short distance away. The city has a population of around 258.000 inhabitants. This is a city with a prosperous history,…
Right at the Arctic Circle lies the small locality of Juoksengi. Here in the province of Norrbotten, at the border with Finland in Northern Sweden, is a place that many would probably miss. That is unless this invisible line would have been found at its southern boundaries. Here the midnight sun and the polar night…