Category: Travel
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Sweden has a long standing tradition of glassblowing. Personally, I love glass and I don't think there is such a thing as too much glass. Lucky for us not only did we find glass but the furnace was hot and working. We just had to stay and watch. It was totally mesmerizing. The furnace…
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This is the boy over the last two years has built a myriad of trebuchets in a variety of sizes. Small ones, medium size ones, fairy sized ones. But nothing could have prepared him for this. A lifesize trebuchet. Seeing is believing. It left him speechless and a bit in awe. I'm just waiting for…
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Ahoy mate! What are you spying? Intently he keeps looking. When he finally says," I see……….. a pirate ship."
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Known as the rock concert of politics, Almedalen Week is an annual event taking place in the first week of July in and around Almedalen, a park in the city of Visby on the Swedish island Gotland. With speeches, seminars and other political activities, it is considered an important forum in Swedish politics. During…
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A Swedish flag on top of a medieval wall in Visby Gotland, Sweden. Around the corner and through the archway, led us to the ramparts. Nearby, under a tree, was a scale model of the ramparts the city had reconstructed on the wall. Totally engaged and completely inspired, the boy sets how to figure out…
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Every summer, around midsummer time, Swedes head to their summer houses for a month or more of just pure vacation with family and friends. I've decided to do the same this year and so my little man "O" and I have headed to Gotland where we will visit family, stay at a horse farm…
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Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down. Or so the nursery rhyme says. It's more like "No Planes Fly !". We just couldn't get over the fact that a volcano on a small little country like Iceland could stop a large portion of the planet from traveling. As I write this, planes have been grounded for days.…
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By Per Svangren Last week, me, my wife, and my youngest daughter went to Paris for a long weekend. First of all I had a couple of things to do and second we wanted to feel a little bit of spring. We have had the longest, snowiest, and coldest winter for a very, very long time here in Sweden…
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Here's another glimpse into my Swedish travels in September. Enjoy! ************************************************************************************************************************* Upon leaving the Hansgatan Konditori, I found this lovely little shop just across the road called, Acanthus. Here they mix old with new but honestly….I love the old. When I say old I mean really old. The cupboard in the photo was built in…