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 …
Hello dearies! Have you ever dreamed of a life-changing studying experience overseas? This is how my experience living abroad was. An adventure of going off to another country you aren’t familiar with their culture or maybe even the language? Well, 10 years ago I went on such an adventure and it changed my life forever. …
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 …
Come enjoy Halloween-time with us in the real town of Sleepy Hollow. “The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.” -Washington Irving 1819 Watch more Sleepy Hollow videos on our Youtube …
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 …
Greetings from the Southwest! I’m thrilled to share my road trip through the beautiful desert of California and Arizona and the charming places I stopped at along the way. The purpose of my trip was to go with my parents and sister to her graduation at the Arizona State University she had studied online through …
Midsummer is a magical holiday that is being celebrated in the northern part of Europe and one of the most popular holiday next to Christmas. It is during the Summer Solstice, which means that it is the longest day of the year, as well as the shortest night. If you are fortunate enough to visit …
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 …
