Tag: holiday

Review – England by train

Before we start, I’m aware the heading is somewhat exaggerated, we weren’t even close to half of England, but bare with me. Our journey started, as mentioned in previous post, in Manchester. Something we realized was somewhat unnecessary when the itinerary was final. But as said, Manchester is grand and a trip there is not…

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Wanting more

For the Mr’s 50th birthday we were off to Edinburgh for a long weekend (Thursday-Monday). The four of us. A Scottish friend of mine advised us to stay in the city as we were only being there for 3,5 days. She was (naturally) right. So we have to come back for more of both the…

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What we’ve done so far

During my husband’s vacation we have been to two concerts. Very happy we had the Swedish 80’s pop boy band Gyllene Tider prior to Coldplay’s. It would have been hard for any other concert to measure up to Coldplay. The Music of the Spheres Tour is AMAZING. But it was nice to have the boys…

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Vacation time

We are at the time of year when Swedes go on their holiday or vacation as Americans’ say. According to the newspaper Dagens Industri the most popular weeks for holiday leave are the weeks 29, 30 and 31, which this year corresponds to the period 17 July – 6 August. This probably because July and…

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Happy midsummer

Happy midsummer from us! Enjoying some tranquile time under our beech tree before the serious party with friends starts. Why No hubby under the tree? Guess who is working the night-shift…?

Last call for doing nothing

Tomorrow I will start working again, so today I need to sort out all the things I should have been doing during the Christmas break… Gonna be tough, I who am so skilled at doing nothing.