Ditte Akker is an experienced traveller with a keen interest in culture and nature who has seen many different places in the world over the years. She has also lived and worked in several different countries. In 2007, Ditte got a job as a teacher at the Swedish School in Beijing and moved there with her husband Bosse. It was a total of four exciting years in the bustling Asian metropolis. We are of course curious to hear more about this! What is it really like to live in such a different country?
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Helena Olmås normally works as a personal trainer, including through her own company Health by Helena. Right now she is on the other side of the globe, carrying out a project that is anything but ordinary. Helena is walking across New Zealand on foot - a walk of over 3000 kilometres! Is that even possible? Not only is the hike an end in itself, but Helena is also raising money for the Cancer Foundation. Absolutely fantastic!
Read moreWhy spend the winter months in the cold and dark north when you can roll down to southern Europe? For many years, Solan and Lasse dreamed of spending their winters in southern latitudes, and when they retired, they took action. Like many other wintering seniors, they traded down to a smaller home in Sweden and invested in a good motorhome, and now they spend five months every year in Portugal and around the Mediterranean.
Read morePeter Gröndahl runs the company American Motorhomes which imports American motorhomes and caravans into Sweden. Through the company you can buy both new and used motorhomes and caravans, which differ in many ways from their European counterparts.
Read moreÅsa Winald lives with her husband Sverker and their daughters Frida and Jonna in a small seaside village outside Lisbon, Portugal. The family moved from Sweden a few years ago because they wanted to find the best surfing waves and because they longed to get away - to Bortugal.
Read moreRenate Sandvik is an adventurous girl from Norway who does not hesitate to travel to exciting and different destinations. She has so far travelled to over 70 different countries on 6 different continents. She has visited exciting countries such as Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Georgia and Armenia. Travelling by plane, car, train or boat, Renate does not hesitate to go camping, cycling, hiking, horse riding or other adventurous activities.
Read moreCamilla Gunnarsson often goes camping in her caravan with her husband Anders and 13-year-olds Matilda and Anton. But their favourite season is not summer, but winter! You might think that Camilla and her family are "those people who have always gone winter camping and skiing", but that's not the case at all. On the contrary, Camilla has seen herself as a person who "can't learn to ski and hates being in the forest".
Read morePeter Blomqvist is the CEO of the major caravan and motorhome manufacturer Adria in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Peter also sits on the management team of KABE, another of the largest manufacturers of motorhomes and caravans. Adria and KABE are part of the same group and together have a significant share of the Swedish and Scandinavian mobile leisure market.
Read moreIn 2010, Linda and Ludvig Hammarberg embarked on a four-year voyage around the world with their children Lovis and Otto, then aged 4 and 2. With the 40-foot-long sailing boat S/Y Mary, they sailed across the world's oceans and visited lots of exotic places in Africa, Southeast Asia, Polynesia and the Caribbean.
Read morePeter Grip has achieved the feat of visiting ALL 196 independent states in the world. He started travelling seriously in 1989 when he backpacked for several months and in 2010, when he was actually only 42 years old, he 'finished' in Tonga - the last white spot on his map. By then he had visited the 195 independent states in the world, and when South Sudan became independent in December 2010, he was of course quick to add country number 196!
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