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Perfect Wallpaper For Travelers

Lifecruiser — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:53:59 +0000

The last year I seem to stumble upon so many travel related home interior details or products, so now I’ve really begun to look for them. Here you can see what might be the perfect wallpaper for travelers, or what do you say?

At least it’s quite colorful and might give you lots of travel ideas and temptations since it’s quite full of travel related details….

I guess it will be a little too much if you decide to put it up on a larger wall, but as a back wall or maybe just one wallpaper gore it would be rather cool!

©Lifecruiser Love Travel Wallpapers

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Travel Accessories: Red Vintage Suitcase

Lifecruiser — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:26:43 +0000

Some times when out shopping, you may stumble upon something that is hard to resist to buy: this time it was a very retro cool vintage travel suitcase in a second hand shop in Stockholm City. Oh, it was so tough to resist! Only 275 SEK…

Though I was convinced by hubby that we have very new suitcases, plus our old ones, so we really don’t need another one. Besides that we were in a hurry so not much time to think about it. We bought no suitcase. Afterward I almost did regret it… *sigh*

I know, it’s not beautiful and perhaps not even so very practical, but I really love the idea of travelling around with such an old suitcase, probably from the sixties or seventies.

I doubt that anyone would want to steal it either – or take the wrong suitcase at the airport, so that would be a huge plus, don’t you think…?

©Lifecruiser Love Vintage Suitcases

Other suitcase related posts by Lifecruiser:

Photo: Vintage Leather Suitcase
Swedish American Line Marked Vintage Suitcase
The Perfect birthday gift: a new suitcase for a trip

Tallest Nordic Hotel: Scandic Victoria Tower

Lifecruiser — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:26:25 +0000

In Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden, this unusual skyscraper tower, named after the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, completed 2011. Scandic Hotel chain is renting Stockholm’s tallest building, also the tallest hotel in Scandinavia. Elected as the hotel building of the year 2012 at the World Architecture Festival i Singapore.

The Scandic Victoria Tower Hotel is designed by the architect Gert Wingårdh, 117 meter (384 ft) and did cost SEK 600 million (around USD 90 million) to be built. The hotel building is totally covered in glass – I just love this unusual patterned architecture!

My photo above doesn’t quite do it justice. I don’t exactly love it less when also discovering that the inside interior is decorated with design furniture from Vitra, Montana and Flos…

If you happens to be nearby: take the elevator up to the skybar at 34th floor and sit down and sip on a glass of Champagne with a view over Stockholms Silicon Valley.

This is the tallest hotel building in Scandinavia, but the tallest building in Sweden is actually Turning Torso in Malmö which I also adore and wrote about earlier.

©Lifecruiser Love Victoria Tower

Scary Skyscraper: Glass Balcony Height Fright

Lifecruiser — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:09:48 +0000

Generally in Stockholm, it has not been many skyscrapers built yet despite it being a capital city. Some high houses exists though and one of them is what looks like a rather modest apartment skyscraper of 16 stories only, situated in Bromma, the outburst of Stockholm city.

The building has been nominated to Stockholm Building 2010 for it’s design by the Swedish architect Per Johanson, who played with pastel-colored balcony windows glass as a contrast to the white side of the house which continues over the roof and is supposed to make the house look like it’s upside down U-shaped – at least on a a distance.

What’s so special (read scary!) with this house is the balcony rail of glass from floor to ceiling that hangs like a loose plate outside the balcony itself. I’m afraid of heights myself, so my first thought was how I would dare to go to the front of the balcony rail without getting the feeling of falling down…

When traveling by the subway train passing by the house, you get many reflexes in the colored glass on the house. The more practical side of me thought: how difficult to clean the windows, so much glass everywhere – and how to clean the outside?

I suppose they hire professional windows cleaners to get the job done and not hanging out from there themselves. Phew!

This whole area at Brommaplan is now in the plans of renewing with 600 new apartments as well as 14000 kvm shopping/service areas and it was not a day too early if I should be honest! It’s a bit worn down and not effective used today.

Stockholm is growing and developing – all places need to catch the modern time we are in even though we also need to keep the wonderful old architecture Stockholm has too.

©Lifecruiser Love Stockholm

Turning Torso Twisted Tower Power – Tallest in Sweden

Lifecruiser — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:15:09 +0000

The very first tourist attraction that was on our list at our Europe trip in August this year, was the most creative apartment/office building in Sweden when it comes to the art and science of architecture, called the Turning Torso. It’s situated in the west of the harbor in Malmö city, in the south of Sweden and we were passing it on our way down in Europe.

The Turning Torso is, with it’s 190 meters (623 feet) and 54 stories, the tallest building in Sweden when created, but also one of the most spectacular with it’s crazy 90 degrees twisting of the 9 cubes in the tower from top to bottom and irregular pentagonal shaped floors rotating around the vertical core.

A true artwork in structural expressionism by Santiago Calatrava (follow the link to read more about this fantastic engineers work!) from 2005, inspired by his own sculpture called the Turning Torso which the Swedish contractor saw and asked him to copy his design as a building.

Featured in Discovery channel’s TV program, Extreme Engineering – always so incredible fascinating – where they did show how a floor of this twisted tower was constructed. It’s also built with sustainability and an environmentally friendly way of life in mind and the building is supplied only with locally produced and renewable energy.

Santiago Calatrava (from Valencia in Spain) is considered to be one of the worlds elite designers who has won gold medal’s. A truly gifted structural engineer with an unusually artistic approach in his creations! I’m totally blown-away by several of his other architectural wonders too.

He also contributed (but did not won) in the architectural competition for the Swedish Öresund Bridge in the nearby area, which we had to pass over to get from Sweden to Denmark on our next leg of Lifecruiser Europe trip…

©Lifecruiser Love Unusual Architecture

Travel Photo: Guinness Dart Sign

Lifecruiser — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:49:04 +0000

One advantage when traveling a lot is all the cool or fun signs you can spot on your trips. We love to take those kind of photos on our travels. This time we spotted an old Guinness beer sign. Any good at dart? Beer drinking at least? (lol)

Beer and dart definitely belongs together, perhaps not when drinking too much beer, but it definitely demands some beer drinking…

A Guinness anyone…? Cheers!

©Lifecruiser Love Guinness Signs

Travel Photo: Hammock View

Lifecruiser — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:11:18 +0000

A newly built modern, but peaceful apartment block view this summer in Malmö city in the south of Sweden. Designed with an artificial stream running through the apartment area with a sandy beach and hammock to rest in.

When traveling, we often enjoy all the different architecture we get to see and this is an excellent example of a new thinking within apartment block planning, opening up for more creative surroundings for peoples living areas.

I’m all for it! Let new ideas grow and be implemented!

Travel Photo: Traditional French

Lifecruiser — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:00:15 +0000

We always love typical traditional country styles when being abroad, like our bedroom window shutters when we were in Provence, France this August. So charming, don’t you think?

Though they are most charming there and not everywhere else. We love to see different styles everywhere. That is after all what makes traveling so interesting and educating.

A Travelers Birthday Goodies

Lifecruiser — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:11:41 +0000

Yesterday it was a special day: a travelers birthday over here. The number one birthday present for this traveler: a Canon G1 X, a small camera that fits well when traveling, but still has a large sensor, a flexible 28-112mm-equivalent, 4x zoom lens and extensive manual controls.

The number two birthday present for this Champagne lover was of course the Moet Chandon Grand Vintage 2004 Champagne. Makes memories pop up from our trip to the Champagne district in August, when we visited their unbelievable huge wine cellars in France and their beautiful vineyards!

Photo: Cut cat in the lawnmover

Lifecruiser — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:49:56 +0000

One of my favorite photo memories from this past summer at our annual farm holiday, was from when I found Frida, one of the farm cats, halfway into the lawnmover with only her back visible – teasing a little farm frog in there! Ha ha…

It’s definitely all about the moment, to catch so called “Kodak photo moments”. I love those kind of photos. Do you have any to share with us? Please do!

Other farm cats photo posts by Lifecruiser:

Travel Photo: Holiday Fat Cat
Farm Photo: Morning Cat
Cat in Box, Gotland
The Farms Wild Cats
Visiting Farm Friends In Norway