We are now back in Stockholm after a whole year travelling through Europe, but we are not yet back in the houseboat. The tenants rent by the month, so we don't have access to the houseboat until 1 December. We have arrived a week early because we simply have a lot to do: water damage in the storage room, renewal of passports, winter storage of the motorhome ...
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Why do we celebrate Christmas? Most people know that in Christianity we celebrate Christmas to commemorate the birth of Jesus, but was he even born at this time of year? And what do the Christmas ham and tree have to do with Jesus?
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In the end, Christmas was celebrated for us too! On Christmas Day, my mum invited our whole family and my brother's whole family to a Christmas table, coffee, Christmas cookies and Christmas sweets - as it should be at Christmas. A very nice afternoon and evening! And now that we've been eating traditional Swedish Christmas food all day, I thought we could talk about ... Swedish Christmas food.
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Swedish travellers are going on New Year's trips like never before. The trend is that more people than ever before are choosing to go abroad to celebrate New Year's and over the past 5-year period, bookings during the New Year's weekend have increased by 33 per cent, according to Ticket Privatresor's statistics. So where is the most popular place to travel to toast the champagne? We present the Swedes' top 10 list.
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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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Some time ago we got a nice surprise: Marianne, who has the great Norwegian travel blog glimtavvderden.com nominated us for "The Liebster Award". The idea behind the award is to highlight other good (travel) blogs that you think deserve more attention. Marianne asked us 11 questions, which we answer in this post. At the end, we've formulated 11 new questions that we'll pass on to a few selected travel bloggers...
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Yesterday we celebrated Midsummer Eve for the first time at home in the houseboat. Our good friends Lennart and Beata came to visit and there was both herring lunch and dinner on deck, with a test of a slightly new midsummer menu ...
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Ok, here we go and Peter at the controls again. At the age of 26, I left H&M and started working as an asbestos cleaner. I had been to a lot of interviews to become a salesperson but didn't make it, so instead of being stuck there I took a job as a cleaner, with much better pay.
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We have long been part of Better Bloggers - Sweden's professional network for bloggers. Last night we were there when founder Linda Hörnfeldt had the release of what Better Bloggers will become from now on: Influencers of Sweden. It is not only the name that will be new but also a lot of other things.
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The night before last it was time for Christmas dinner with my (Helena's) colleagues. Usually my colleagues don't want traditional Christmas food, and also three out of eight are vegetarians, so this year it was Lebanese Christmas dinner. Not against me if you say so!
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