Merry Christmas | From Osaka, Japan
We wish you all a Merry Christmas. This year from Osaka, Japan. We hope that you will have a great Christmas weekend with a lot of adventures.


We arrived in the German city of Stade yesterday and spent the night in a room we found via Airbnb. Stade was early on our list due to its history as a part of the Hanseatic League. Actually, we left Germany today. We are on our way back home to Sweden after a great road…

Gildehaus is a village and a district (Ortsteil) of the town of Bad Bentheim, located in the Grafschaft Bentheim district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The village is situated directly on the German-Dutch border. With a population of approximately 4,000 residents, Gildehaus is a significant residential community. It is located on the Bentheim Ridge (Bentheimer Höhenrücken),…

Runsten is a small village on the island of Öland, the second largest island in Sweden. The village, with the white stone church, was once the center of the local parish. Literally, the name translates to Runestone in English. However, it is a bit more complicated than that. Two of my ancestors once called Runsten…

A graveyard as a tourist attraction? It might not be as uncommon as it sounds. What is more uncommon, though, is when there are no buried bodies. This is the forested area of Kyrkö Mosse in the forests of Småland in southeastern Sweden. It lies just to the west of the locality of Ryd in…

In recent years we have started a tradition on Christmas Eve. Instead of buying a lot of gifts for everyone and placing them under the Christmas tree, we have started to play a game that is not Secret Santa. It is a dice game that has become quite popular here in Sweden in the past…

100 years ago, Finland declared its independence from Russia. Today the Centenarian celebrates its birthday and we will all hope that this one will not decide to step out the window and disappear. In my opinion, it’s a good moment to reflect on what it really means to be Finnish. I am a Finn abroad, but…
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