Being in Scandinavia or more exact, in Sweden, there is one sport event coming up very soon, that is more unusual and interesting than others: the Vikings Ice Race or Vikingarännet in Swedish. 80 kilometer long ice skating between the town Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden’s capital city. The idea of a Viking Ice Race popped [...]
Another trip is booked, a cruise! We found a great cruise deal, so in May we’re going on a 4-nights cruise from Stockholm (Sweden) – Tallinn (Estonia) – St Petersburg (Russia) – Helsinki (Finland) – Stockholm, with the St Peters Line Cruise Ship M/S Princess Anastasia. This cruise route is actually following the Vikings footsteps [...]
A travel guide for an interesting Swedish Manor: Julita Gård, a large open air museum owned by the Nordiska Museet Foundation since 1944, at the shores of lake Öljaren in Sweden. We went there recently and found it well worth exploring. Julita existed already in the Viking era and was an medieval monastery that later [...]
