If you want your Swedish visit to taste deliciously sweet you might want to visit Gränna. It is a vintage little picturesque town that makes it feel like walking in a real-life storybook. While here we also take the opportunity to learn more about Sweden’s finest Fairy Tale artist, John Bauer. To enter Gränna is …
Gilmore Girls is a TV-show that has the coziest small-town charm in it. It was a perfect fall day when we decided to visit the real Stars Hollow. Did you know there is more than one? The fictional town is just a set, but there are still a handful of Connecticut towns, very close to …
Sleepy Hollow, NY is a well-known little village from Washington Irving’s famous short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. But, did you know it is also a real town that you can visit? We want to show you our favorite spots in this town of legends and lore. A town where the line between fiction …
A family fall trip to the cozy Berkshires, MA & Mystic, CT At the leaf-peeping peak of October, my family came from California to visit us in New York for our birthdays. Jonas & I knew we had to take them to a special place, the Berkshires of MA. The same place we have spent …
A visit inside Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard house in Concord, MA, the place where the beloved literary classic “Little Women” was written. When I spend time at old author’s homes I get this timeless feeling that no time has passed since they made their footprints next to mine. That their thoughts and ideas who first …
Do you plan to visit Sweden? These 5 relaxing things will make your Swedish summer trip more picturesque. Sweden is a small charming Scandinavian country, partly connected with the Arctic Circle. Some people mistake it for Switzerland, other people only know it for the Swedish Chef, Meatballs, IKEA, or ABBA. But it is more than …
Mark Twain is one of the most known and beloved authors in the history of literature. His list of work is long but what people most likely think about when they hear his name is probably his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, set in the Mississippi River area around the 1840s. During the …
The first annual Sleepy Hollow Literature Fest took place during a sunny Saturday in May. A one-day festival that brought book hungry readers and writers to the rural neighboring towns of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow; next to New York’s mighty Hudson River where the famous legend once was born. I am of course talking about …
Swedish traveling in the springtime is filled with colorful gems. Like this unique farm that grows more than a million daffodils for thousands of visitors to enjoy. Fagerås is a small town where people come every year to experience a colorful spring miracle. Here grow millions of daffodils that is not only yellow but orange …
Hello dearies! Did you know that the largest privately owned house in the United States is located in the mountains of North Carolina? The Biltmore is a mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889-1895 and is still owned by the descendants of one of America’s richest families, the Vanderbilt’s. I was fortunate to …
Have you ever seen one of those tiny libraries, no bigger than a doll house? They are popping up everywhere nowadays. You take one book, and leave one book, they are truly fascinating concept of sharing literature. We have seen them in my home-country, Sweden, as well as here and there in America on our …
During a beautiful Sunday in March, we direct our steps to the “Hudson River Museum”; a fascinating place that brings together art, science, and history in Yonkers. It is not only located next to the beautiful Hudson River, but also a connects to a stunning old Victorian mansion from 1877, called “Glenview.” Among the charming …
