A new year is here and with it comes new goals and challenges. Before I tell you about my favorite books in January, I’d like to share a few of my reading goals for 2021. Complete the Helmet Reading Challenge Read 100 books Dive into the fascinating world of non-fiction. […]
Welcome back to a snowy Vagnhärad! As we wrote yesterday, we have been back in the small locality of Vagnhärad for a few days while visiting my parents. This is not only the home of my parents, but also their two Golden Retrievers, Trixie and Cleo. Six-year-old Trixie is the […]
Welcome to snowy Vagnhärad! We have been back in the small locality of Vagnhärad for a few days now while visiting my parents. This does of course also include spending some time with my parents’ two Golden Retrievers – Trixie and Cleo. As I have mentioned earlier, six-year-old Trixie gave […]
Lemland Church, also known as Saint Birgitta’s Church, is in the village of Söderby in Lemland Municipality. It is yet another one of the traditional red granite churches on the Ă…land Islands. It is today a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and it is also the center […]
Saltvik Church is the center of the local parish in Kvarnbo in Saltvik Municipality. The church is dedicated to Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus. The building is in red granite, the material that is so typical for the Ă…land Islands. Saltvik Church The construction of the church began at […]
What today is only a rest stop at the border between Lemland and Lumparland has a much richer history. Over the strait, known as Lumparsund, there is today a small bridge. However, this very place was once the sea passage for Vikings. Swedish Vikings are believed to have passed through […]
One of the interesting sights in the western part of Ă…land is Eckerö Church. Eckerö is a municipality on the Ă…land Islands. It is also the westernmost island within the archipelago’s larger inhabited islands. The narrow strait Marsundet separates Eckerö from the main island. Eckerö was an important stop on […]
Kiev, or Kyiv, has a long history. And as often is the case, several parts of it are disputed. Today the city is the capital of Ukraine as well as one of the largest cities in Europe. Kiev is the English name for the city, while Kyiv is the Latin […]
Living in Stockholm, it can sometimes feel like the rest of Europe is so far away. In order to reach any land border, you need to drive for several hours. We do, however, have one additional possibility – the Baltic Sea. There is not only Finland across the sea. Overnight […]
Are you planning on going somewhere during the darkest months of the year? Why not go to wintry Warsaw, the fascinating capital of Poland? It is time for us to dream back to a time before the Covid-19 pandemic, when traveling was less complicated. In 2018, we planned our Christmas […]
The island of Eckerö is one of the western-most islands of Ă…land and it is here that you find Käringsund. This is a bay and natural harbor that has become one of the most picturesque sights on the Ă…land Islands. Along the shores of this small bay the boathouses and […]
St. Andrew’s Church in Lumparland stands out from the other churches on the Ă…land Islands. One cannot help but ask where the typical red granite is. While many of the churches on the islands are made of the local red stone, St. Andrew’s Church is instead a white wooden church. […]