God Jul, or Merry Christmas, from Vagnhärad, Sweden. The snowstorm that we’ve experienced in the last couple of days has resulted in a white Christmas. Even better, today we also get to enjoy the always-appreciated sunshine. 2023 and all its adventures will soon only be a memory. We will at least try to resurrect the…
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…
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…
Now it’s time for us to say: Dear readers, we wish you a very Merry Christmas! Here in Vagnhärad and Sweden, Christmas Eve is coming to an end. At this very moment, we’re enjoying the silence around us after a hectic day, There was no snow this year, but that’s not really the most important…
One of the highlights in wintery Stockholm is the Skansen Christmas market. Earlier this year we purchased a family card for entrance to Skansen for a whole year. Until now we have only used it once and that was to enjoy seeing all the Nordic animals for a day. It is now the time of…
Earlier this week we were discussing what to do this weekend. First, we thought about going to Trosa and enjoy the annual Christmas market. As we will soon go to Trosa in any case, we instead decided to go somewhere else. Actually, we ended up drawing a circle around Stockholm looking for anything of interest within…
It’s less than a week left before it’s time to start celebrating Christmas! The best way to cool down in the middle of all the stress is by having a glöggfika. We are talking about an event that combines two of Sweden’s better traditions – glögg and fika. Glögg+ fika = glöggfika We might have mentioned fika…
Today it was time for us to go and explore a bit more of Stockholm, to a part of the city that we so far had not uncovered. This weekend there is a Christmas market at the Drottningholm Palace. In other words, it was the perfect reason for us to visit. We had actually discussed visiting…
We have just returned back to Sweden after a nice weekend in the Slovak capital Bratislava where we took the possibility to once more visit a Slovak Christmas Market. Actually we were quite lucky as it was the first weekend of the annual Christmas market in Bratislava. You should definitely go there if you get…
There might be a lack of snow and the town might be more well known as a summer destination. But a walk around Trosa during Christmas is a cozy experience. Även om det är en avsaknad av snö och att staden är mer känd som en sommardestination, så är det riktigt mysigt med en promenad i…