Sweden
Is there another extremely cool city in Sweden besides Stockholm?
Yes. it’s Malmö.
I used to live in this extremely cool city for a couple of months last year and absolutely fell in love with the easygoing and environmentally friendly atmosphere. Malmö has a variety of cultures all together living in the small community. Students come from all over the world to study in the big universities just next to the city. Malmö is …
Hands up, who is not a loyal reader of the one or two Scandinavian design or architecture blogs?
Nordic cultures are well-known for their incredible output in design: our apartments are furnished with inventive Swedish furniture, almost daily we wear Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish fashion (H&M, anyone?), the little and practical pieces in our lives were designed up North: crockery, lamps, sound systems, vases, bed sheets etc. All are impregnated …
What does a girl with no sense of direction do when she wants to make a documentary about reindeer in the minus 38 degrees wilds of Northern Sweden? Well, this girl recruits her friend Patrick, a German ex-Special Forces Army Captain to come along and serve as her assistant.
And so it began, our 3,400 kilometer 5 day odyssey from Stockholm to Kiruna, Lapland, with Patrick the machine driving, and with …
My last school trip did not actually happen while I was still in school but only a couple of weeks ago when Visit Sweden and Air Berlin invited me to join a “Klassresa” (apparently this means “class trip” in Swedish.) to Gothenburg and Stockholm. Along with my blogger buddies class mates from Mit Vergnügen, I heart Berlin, I love Ponies, Lachsbrötchen, JustTravelous, Tripwolf, Musikexpress, Intro, Stylespion and LesMads we took …
Every year around the end of June, I become incredibly envious of Swedish people. Not that I don’t usually wish I was Swedish (because, let’s face it, Sweden is just too cool) but once the photos of my Swedish friends celebrating Midsommar pop up on Facebook, I find it very hard to keep calm.
What makes Midsommar so special, I hear you ask? Here are the top 5 reasons why we Travelettes love Midsommar…
I have never been to Sweden, but nonetheless, I somehow grew up with this country. I read all of Astrid Lindgrens novels at least twice, went to IKEA with my parents on the regular, drank Fläder Saft and ate Kötbullar meat balls. I even had a Swedish Aupair. Childhood days are long gone, but the presence of Sweden in everyday life is still around. These days my friends and I …
