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Tuuri is a village in Alavus Municipality in Western Finland, a part of the Southern Ostrobothnia Region. The village is home to a population of around 780 inhabitants and the second-largest department store in Finland – the Veljekset Keskinen. As a symbol for Tuuri, meaning “luck” in Finnish, a large horse shore stands next to…
Kalajoki is a town along the Finnish coast towards the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Northern Ostrobothnia Region of Finland. Kalajoki is home to around 12.400 inhabitants, and the area is almost unilingually Finnish-speaking. The town is probably best known for the nearby beach resort area of Kalajoen Hietasärkät, attracting visitors from near and far….
Bergamo is a city in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. The city with around 121.000 inhabitants became known as one of the worst epicenters in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is also a popular tourist destination that sometimes ends up in the shadows of the bigger destinations in northern Italy such as…
Alavus is a town in Western Finland and is the seat of the local municipality with the same name. The town and municipality is also known by its Swedish name Alavo and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia Region. However, the municipality’s population of around 10.800 is almost entirely Finnish-speaking. Around 4.000 of these people…
Drottningholm, with its royal palace, is one of the main attractions for visitors to Stockholm. This is a small locality with around 300 inhabitants on the island of Lovön in Ekerö Municipality, just to the west of the more central areas of Stockholm. The Drottningholm Palace is the official residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf…
A weekend in March without plans? That was what happened to me. I searched for a few options and eventually decided to head back to Warsaw for a new visit. This time it was a new solo trip with Susann and Little A staying in Sweden. I had found a cheap Thursday flight from Stockholm…
Last year I enjoyed quite a lot of day trips abroad. At the time it was still possible to fly from Stockholm Skavsta Airport to Gdansk, a route with two flights each day. It was a joy to be able to fly down in the morning and back home in the evening, something that had…
Lublin has been on my wish list of cities to visit for a long time. It is part of my attempt to visit all the cities where Susann once lived. For a few years now, there have only been two cities left on that list – Lublin and Moscow. Yes, Moscow will take a lot…
Lundby is a farm and a small settlement just on the outskirts of Vagnhärad. This is a part of the Södermanland countryside, with large open fields. A small road goes through the area, with the much larger motorway E4 only a short distance away. Without the motorway, this area would probably have been really quiet….
Masku is a small town in southwestern Finland, just a few kilometers north of Turku. The name has previously also been spelled as Masko in Swedish, but the around 9600 municipality inhabitants are almost entirely Finnish speaking today, with only 1% having Swedish as their main language. Masku has developed into a smaller commercial center…
Kilpisjärvi is a village in the far north of Finland, with Norway and Sweden as close neighbors. It is a gateway to the Arctic with one of the main roads passing through connecting Sweden and Finland with the northern Norwegian regions of Troms and Finnmark. It is also the gateway to the three-country cairn, the…
For locals of Trosa and Vagnhärad, Åda is probably best known for “Ådarakan“, a straight part of the road that begins at the manor house at Åda. The estate covers a large area of farmland, forests, and a part of the nearby coastal waters. It has been owned by the Isoz family since 1841 and…