Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category

Hotel Woodpecker Unusual Treehouse Suite

February 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm » Comments (8)

There is some very creative hotels even in Sweden and we did a roadtrip to one of them a couple of weeks ago: Hotell Hackspett or in English Hotel Woodpecker, about 40 feet up in an old oak tree in one of the parks in Västerås.

This is a very traditional Swedish red cottage, just placed [...]


SkyView World Premiere: Globe glass gondola ride

February 5th, 2010 at 9:12 pm » Comments (9)

Stockholm got a new awesome world attraction: SkyView. Glass gondolas goes up on rails outside the Globe which gives the visitors a fabulous opportunity to see Sweden’s capital 130 m above sea level.
Construction start: Jan 2009. Premiere: 5 Feb 2010.
This is actually a top attraction of a top attraction since it’s situated on the Stockholm [...]


Bandol Provencale Market

January 25th, 2010 at 9:58 pm » Comments (11)

When we had said a sad Good Bye to our Norwegian blogger friends, Claudie and Pierre did take us to another jewel of the French Riviera: Bandol. We had a nice stroll at the coastal walk at the port and enjoyed a fresh Provencale market.
I felt right at home at once - of course, since [...]