Friday evening saw the Golden Pen Award 2016 ceremony in Split, Croatia. The Croatian Tourist Board had nominated and invited journalists and bloggers from around 15 countries, and in the evening they all gathered in the basement vaults of Diocletian's Palace in a festive mood.
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In the past month, we have had record visits to the blog and at the same time gained more followers on Facebook than ever. Very funny! But when you grow on the Internet, all sorts of other things happen too ...
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Yesterday it was time for a meeting with Travel Massive in Stockholm. Travel Massive is an organisation that brings together travel insiders, such as travel bloggers, journalists and travel industry professionals.
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As a blogger, you have to have a good camera. My Nikon was more than ten years old and I started to realise that the pictures were too few pixels. We did a lot of research to find a new camera that wasn't too expensive. The first thing that happened after we ordered it was that it was almost stolen ...
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Yesterday we went to an evening lecture on content marketing. It was Anna Kleinwichs Magnusson from Stockholms skrivbyrå who lectured via the trade union Unionen.
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When we Swedes go on holiday, we like to post holiday photos on social media to show how good we have it - perhaps on Facebook, Instagram or our own blog. But how are these pictures actually received?
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A few years ago, the Swedish travel blog network was formed and since then it has been easier, and perhaps above all more fun, to be a travel blogger in Sweden. The atmosphere among Swedish travel bloggers is, according to us, very good. They help each other, give tips and advice and exchange thoughts on Facebook, on each other's blogs and sometimes ... in real life. Last night we were visited by two Swedish travel bloggers!
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When you live in a houseboat and have water around you on all sides, it's easy to lose something in the lake. Sometimes a neighbour might send a message on Facebook like "We've lost a bike and have ordered divers. Anyone else want to pick up something else at the same time?" But no, it wasn't actually in the lake that I dropped my mobile phone ...
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Travelling and blogging is the best thing we know, and we probably spend just about all free time for these two things. But of course it's important to be able to combine work, blog and travelling...!
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In March, exactly seven years ago, we started the FREEDOMtravel blog. In 2006 and 2007 we managed to go on two of our biggest dream trips ever: the Trans-Siberian Railway through Siberia and Mongolia to China and an adventure trip around New Zealand.
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