Last Friday evening it was time for one of the biggest events of the year for travel bloggers: the Nordic Travel Blog event. The event, organised by Travel & Lifestyle Nordic, gathered around 100 Nordic travel bloggers at the Sheraton hotel in Stockholm. It was a long and pleasant evening with food and wine, mingling, lectures, crazy (to say the least!) antics and an award ceremony with fantastic prizes.
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Drinks at the Scandic rooftop bar
Even before the event started, some of us travel bloggers met at Scandic Continental's rooftop bar on Vasagatan. A nice and relaxed start for the challenge that soon awaited ...!
Crazy team competition
When we arrived at the Sheraton hotel at 17:00, we were immediately divided into teams, each with a team captain. Each team had one hour to solve a series of tasks in the city centre. It was everything from singing "Macarena" at the T-Centre to dancing Small Frogs around a lamp post. Not entirely painless tasks, then!
Everything had to be filmed and posted on Instagram as proof. Our team gave it their all and in order to reach the finish line in time, one of the participants even had to take off their high heels and run barefoot through the city...!
Theme Switzerland
The Swiss Tourist Office in Sweden was the main sponsor of the event and the Switzerland was therefore a common theme throughout the evening. We got to see pictures and films from the country, and it must be said that nature looks almost unrealistically fantastic. We were also offered Swiss wine and Swiss cheese - two very pleasant acquaintances.
Lectures - including Peter
In addition to learning more about Switzerland, we listened to lectures about Youtube and how influencers can work with companies. The very last speaker of the evening was ... Peter! He talked about new digital technology and reflected on what it means for us influencers.
Suspecting that the audience would be a bit 'lecture-weary' at 11pm, he made it all rather light-hearted, shocking them by showing up in ... a wig!
Last but not least - award ceremony
Finally, it was time for the highlight of the evening: the awards ceremony. I probably don't remember all the categories, but some of the winners were Liniz Travel (best Instagram photo of the night), The Northern Lights (Hero of Instagram), Traveler's Edition (King of Youtube SEO), Life from the bright side (Master of Facebook video), Northbound Journeys (Queen of video footage), Veera Bianca (Instagram) and Earth Wanderess (Explorer of the world).
Then it was time to announce which team had won the crazy team competition. It turned out that the jury couldn't decide one winning team, but chose two. Which two teams won? Mine (Helena's) and Peter's! We didn't realise we were so good at singing the Macarena and dancing the Little Frogs in the middle of town, haha.
What we won? It's actually completely Unbelievable. The Swiss tourist office has promised to fly everyone from the two winning business class teams down to Switzerland and offer a whole range of great activities. We are really looking forward to this! Thank you Anna and Cecilia at Travel & Lifestyle Nordic for a fantastic evening!
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Jenn - Forever abroad says:
So you seem to have had such a successful evening! And congratulations on the prize. All winners are very well deserved also for the various awards! 🙂
18 June 2017 - 7:26
Helena says:
It was a successful evening! The prizes were well deserved and felt very right! I'm a little unsure of the names of the winning categories, so I might update during the day 😉 .
18 June 2017 - 9:32
Lena - good for the soul says:
What a night you had! Love that kind of madness! Congratulations on the win. What luck that you both won 🙂
Hug Lena
18 June 2017 - 7:33
Helena says:
Thank you very much! Yes, it was crazy that we both managed to win, even though we were in different teams! 😉
18 June 2017 - 9:33
Lennart says:
Nice!
Congratulations!
18 June 2017 - 7:50
Helena says:
It was a fun evening! Thank you so much!
18 June 2017 - 9:33
Mr Steve says:
It really is the age of the travel event now. An impressive event. And, what a fantastic prize you received as the winner of the team competition.
18 June 2017 - 8:35
Helena says:
Yes, in recent years, travel blogging events have really escalated!
18 June 2017 - 9:34
Matts Torebring says:
Congratulations on the great prize!
18 June 2017 - 8:39
Helena says:
Thank you very much! A very nice prize, for a perhaps not so honourable effort 😉.
18 June 2017 - 9:34
Ama de casa says:
What fun! Congratulations on the win - and glad you both won with your respective teams. Can't have been easy considering that most people overcome their "fears" with the motto "All for the blog!" 😀
Have a nice Sunday!
18 June 2017 - 8:51
Helena says:
It really was like that! At first you thought "we can't do these tasks" but then everyone worked really hard and gave it their all 😉.
18 June 2017 - 9:35
Ditte says:
What a great and memorable evening! Unfortunately I missed all this because I'm in Spain, but that's how it is sometimes.
Saw some pictures on Instagram from the adventures around the city....
Congratulations on the win! Will be a great trip! And Switzerland is really a country that one likes to travel to. (Well high price range, but as a win it is not immediately noticeable...)
18 June 2017 - 9:59
Helena says:
It is not possible to be everywhere all the time. And there will be more opportunities! The good thing about bloggers and instagrammers is that they tend to share on social media 😉 Switzerland seems amazing, and we've never been there, so it's going to be really fun!
18 June 2017 - 10:22
Goatfish says:
Congratulations on your winnings! That's great 😀.
And we are enjoying beautiful weather, at last!
Signage Sunday hug ?
18 June 2017 - 10:09
Helena says:
Thank you very much! Yes, wonderful with summer weather! All Saturday we sat outside with the neighbours at a long table on the pier and enjoyed the sun (lunch AND dinner ;)) Wish you a nice Sunday!
18 June 2017 - 10:23
Marina says:
This with travel blogging has really become a great thing!!! Glad that you won, and what a wonderful prize then 🙂
18 June 2017 - 11:04
Helena says:
Yes, indeed. It gets bigger and bigger every year, it feels like! And yes, fantastic price 🙂
18 June 2017 - 11:28
Husis blog says:
What a lovely evening and day you must have had.
Congratulations on the prizes!
18 June 2017 - 11:20
Helena says:
Yes, it was fantastic fun to be part of! 🙂
18 June 2017 - 11:28
pilla says:
Congratulations!!! was unfortunately prevented from coming but you seem to have had a great evening!
18 June 2017 - 12:05
Helena says:
Thank you very much! Sorry that you were prevented, but there will be more opportunities. Hope to see you in some other context in the future!
18 June 2017 - 12:41
Eva - People in the Street says:
Nice hairstyle Peter has, hahaha! You seem to have had a really fun and crazy evening, it was great fun to follow everyone on social media now that I could not be there this time.
Congratulations on your award!
18 June 2017 - 12:25
Helena says:
Sad that you couldn't be there, but yes, that's the best thing about events where bloggers and instagrammers are involved - it's posted everywhere 😉.
18 June 2017 - 12:41
Biggeros says:
Congratulations on your win!!!
What a nice evening with a fun organisation!
Imagine how big the blogging world has become?
It's great to have such an exchange with each other?
If I hadn't known it was Peter in a wig, I would have guessed that Rod Stewart was visiting ???
18 June 2017 - 12:59
Helena says:
I certainly agree! The blogging world has become big, and now in many different areas! Fun, and not least the exchange you have between bloggers ðŸ™'
18 June 2017 - 15:13
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
What a lovely evening and congratulations on winning the trip. I'm sure it will be a great trip, of course they want to show the best Switzerland has to offer!
18 June 2017 - 14:55
Helena says:
Yes, I guess they want to show us something nice that we can take pictures of and write about 😉 It will probably be a short trip, but on the other hand it's lucky, because I don't really know how to make it work with a holiday ... but it has to work! 🙂
18 June 2017 - 15:15
Rania {Northbound Journeys} says:
So much fun event and incredibly happy for my prize (still haven't realised it). Too bad we never got to talk, but we will see you in Switzerland!!! 😀
Can I ask you to link to my travel blog Northbound Journeys instead of Rowan Tree? I'm so complicated and have kind of started from scratch haha 😀.
18 June 2017 - 15:08
Helena says:
Soooo glad to see you in Switzerland!!! 🙂 And no problem, I have changed the link now! I was unsure if I got everything right ... so good that it can be fixed! 🙂
18 June 2017 - 15:16
Anette says:
What a night!
Congratulations on the win, guess we'll be seeing some from Switzerland soon.
Fun ?
18 June 2017 - 16:25
Helena says:
Thank you very much! Yes, the plan is to go to Switzerland in August and of course we will report then! 🙂
18 June 2017 - 17:37
Renate's travels says:
What a wonderful evening! 🙂 Congratulations so much on the team victory and travelling to Switzerland! 😀
18 June 2017 - 16:51
Helena says:
It was really a great evening! Thank you so much! And love the Norwegian spelling of Switzerland! 🙂 (Significantly easier than the Swedish one!!!)
18 June 2017 - 17:38
BP says:
Congratulations on that win!!! Absolutely incredible that both your and Peter's team won. Great! Oh you love exploring new (and old) destinations.
Also, I like the header picture - what works of art!!! Oh that passion fruit cake - I'm dying!!!
18 June 2017 - 19:03
Helena says:
Glad you like the picture! And isn't it crazy that we both won? Felt quite unlikely if you say so 😉 .
18 June 2017 - 20:26
LinizTravel says:
Good to see you !!!! Thanks for the link! Hope to see you again soon 🙂 hugs
18 June 2017 - 20:05
Helena says:
Of course you would have a link! And yes, I'm almost counting on the fact that we'll have to see each other again soon!
18 June 2017 - 20:27
Christian says:
Peter was awesome on stage! Congratulations on the win!
18 June 2017 - 20:38
Helena says:
Haha, yes, but isn't it? It's his new thing maybe 😉 Thank you! And thanks for the latest, have written a post about the brunch at Hobo which we will publish on Tuesday.
18 June 2017 - 20:44
JoY says:
Congratulations on the great prize in the beautiful country of Switzerland. You will understand why Jakob is sometimes homesick ?
Hugs
18 June 2017 - 21:20
Helena says:
Thank you very much! And oh yes, we probably will! 🙂
18 June 2017 - 22:54
Christine - 29°. says:
But what fun! Sounds like a lovely evening. Congratulations to you and all the other winners. 🙂
19 June 2017 - 14:46
Johnny Friskilä says:
I obviously missed something. But hey, you can't be everywhere! Congratulations on the win! 🙂
19 June 2017 - 15:16
Anna, New York - My Bite of the Big Apple says:
What a great description of a fantastic evening! We will live long on that one. :Extra plus for the great job behind and for Peter's wig, hehe. 🙂
Yes, wow, what a prize... Congratulations to you!
19 June 2017 - 23:22
Anna, New York - My Bite of the Big Apple says:
What a great summary of a fantastic evening! We live long on it. An extra praise to the organisers and lecturers, not least Peter with the wig 🙂.
Congratulations on winning too! Talk about incredible price. 🙂
19 June 2017 - 23:25