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Flogsta Scream
The Flogsta Scream is one of those totally legitimate Swedish things that makes no sense to outsiders. Students in the Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala Sweden […]
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Svensk köttbullar
Without a doubt, meatballs is the best known of all Swedish dishes, traditionally served with potatoes, lingonberry jam and cream sauce. Now as usual when […]
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Is it a Plane🛩️??
Its high up… It goes up and it comes down… It’s not up or down all of the time… It’s made for 2… It comes […]
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You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off
Two more well known Swedish exports, Saab and Volvo, are renowned for being ultra safe, while not been too stylish. If you want a sporty […]
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Would you believe it?????
Swedish wild flowers bear an uncanny resemblance to Scottish wild flowers 🤣🤣🤣 Even Misty couldn’t tell the difference. Believe us she knows what she is […]
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Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnard
Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnard What’s blue and yellow and was born in Sweden? IKEA of course. IKEA is formed using the founders initials and where […]
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When Tomte met Nisse….. Mystery Solved
Amazingly we have 2 Scandinavian Gnomes, they appeared on our doorstep one day!! Yesterday we had to do some extra essential shopping, our milk had […]
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Fika
Fika ,a big part of Swedish culture, is coffee, cake and a chat. Businesses often schedule 2 Fika breaks a day. Now we love coffee […]
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Where have all Ducks Gone?
A really interesting fact about the Swedes is that they think Donald Duck is the greatest thing since Ingvar Kamprad opened his first furniture store, […]
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Bridge over (and under) Troubled Water countries
Bridge over (and under) Troubled Water countries Bridges are fabulous. Some are old, some beautiful, others iconic. What they all have in common is that […]
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Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen… Edinburgh
Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen Edinburgh We always visit wonderful places on our travels and look in awe at the sights and sounds. Do we ever do […]
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Probably the best Breakfast in the World
Two of the best exports from Denmark are Bacon and carlsberg larger. Fortunately we did not have any carlsberg but we enjoyed our breakfast anyway. […]
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Nearly Missed It
In truth we never planned to be at the Ribes International Viking Festival in Denmark before the last day. We’ve met Vikings before and they […]
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Bock… What???
Ok. Bockwurst is a German sausage, did you know there are 1500 varieties of German sausage? We like sausage but no, we are not going […]
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Barriers
Today we took Misty for a walk to visit a German Market. ‘What no Market!!!’ Everywhere was locked up and no one was around. There […]
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Wanderlust
“Not all those who wander are lost” J R Tolkien. In this case we might have become lost as we had only planned to travel […]
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Windmills of your Mind
“Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel As the images unwind, […]
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There is no better…..
…than our own gardens especially in these strange times. We have done so much in ours over the last few weeks. As well as actual […]
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Tiptoe through the Tulips
This may be our last excursion into the tulip fields, this year at least. As you can see at times we found it a bit […]
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More Time Better Results ??🤣🤣
Today the main reason for being in Amsterdam, a flower parade, reputedly 26km long. Again we will find out next year 😁😊. Maybe being with […]
