Southern Sweden has an area dubbed as the Kingdom of Crystals (Glasriket), consisting of about 13 glass factories and smaller companies. On our way home from Öland, we decided to break the roadtrip into two legs and stay in the pretty town of Växjö (tough to pronounce), Sweden, where we got to visit several sights, … More RoadTrip #35.4: Exploring Sweden’s Glasriket ft. Växjö – the Kronoberg castle ruins, Småland Museum and the Swedish Glass Museum, the House of Emigrants, Växjö Cathedral, and Kosta Glascenter (Öland Escapade – Day 5-7)

It’s day 4 on the Swedish holiday island of Öland! After exploring the southern cape, it’s time to see what the north (and west) coast has to offer. In the morning, we enjoyed a long, refreshing walk in the woods of Trollskogen (literally, the troll’s forest), visiting a shipwreck and an 800-900 year old oak … More RoadTrip #35.3: Öland escapade: Trollskogen, Byrums Raukar, Borgholms slott (castle), and beachin’ in Sandbybadet (Day 4)

It’s Day 3 on the Swedish holiday island of Öland. I really had a taste of the Swedish lifestyle as we enjoyed breakfast outside the cabin and dipped our feet in the cold, cold sea in the morning. The day was then spent on the road, visiting some of the popular sites in the southern … More RoadTrip #35.2: Öland escapade: Sandbybadet beach, Karlevi Stone, Gettlinge grave field, Långe Jan lighthouse, and Eketorps borg (Day 3)

It’s time to visit one of Sweden’s bigger islands in the Baltic Sea – a popular local holiday destination, Öland! My husband said that he had good chihldhood memories there, going on roadtrips with his family. Driving from Norway to Öland takes more or less 8.5 hours, so we decided to cut the journey into … More RoadTrip #35.1: Falköping, Sweden and the entertaining farm animals in Mösseberg Park (Öland Escapade – Day 1&2)

The Midsummer (Swedish: Midsommer) is one of the biggest holidays in Sweden. It is when the summer solstice or the longest day of the year is celebrated with maypoles, flower wreaths, singing and dancing! And of course, good food like crayfish, salmon, barbecue and spare ribs partnered with new potatoes or pickled herring. Last year, … More RoadTrip #34: Celebrating Midsummer in Torsby, Sweden (+ a daytrip to Rottneros Park)

Formerly known as the Orsa Björnpark (Bear Park), the predator park in Orsa was a 325 000 m2 zoo housing big predators from the northern hemisphere, like wolves, brown bears, polar bears, kodiak bears, mountain owls, lynx, wolverines, Siberian tigers, Persian leopards and snow leopards. It was opened in 1986 and became the largest of … More RoadTrip #32.3: A day in Orsa Rovdjurspark (Predator Park) in Sweden

After roaming around the city of Mora, we fastened our seatbelts and drove on to a nearby town called Nusnäs, famous for its Dala horse manufacturing industry. Two of the major producers are Nils Olsson Dalahäster, manufacturing since 1928, and Grannas A. Olssons Hemlöjd AB, since 1922. Both Olssons are apparently related. We figured that … More RoadTrip #32.3: The quest for our very own Dala Horse – Visiting two dala horse factories in Nusnäs, Sweden

Here’s part 2 of the roadtrip to the northernmost Swedish city we’ve visited thus far – Mora. The name itself, apparently, has nothing to do with “mor” (or “mother”), but was derived from the other meaning of the word in Swedish, “dense forest on damp land”. Mora lies by the 6th largest lake in the … More RoadTrip #32.2: Exploring the city center of Mora, Sweden (ft. the Vasaloppet, the Old Bell Tower, Mora church, the Dalahäst statue, the promenade and Zorngården and museum)