July 2024
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July 8th, 2024. Copenhagen.
Day 19: Copenhagen Beautiful wildflowers at the Nybro train station Our return flight on Wednesday is out of Copenhagen, so we decided to spend two nights here beforehand with Ana & Alex. We took an early morning Oresundstag train from Nybro, Sweden to Copenhagen. Took 3 hrs 40 minutes, but it’s an easy ride and…
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July 7th, 2024. Moose Safari & Algutsboda.
Day 18: Moose Safari & Algutsboda God morgon, Lea! Not moose— at Glasrikets Älgpark. Despite the moose crossing signs on the roads everywhere here, we haven’t seen a moose in the wild – just reindeer. Luckily, Sweden has moose parks! We went to one just a few minutes away from Ana. They take you out on a…
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July 6th, 2024. The James Bond Museum, Nybro.
Day 17: The James Bond Museum, Nybro So when we first confirmed we would be coming to visit Ana, I pulled up her area on Google Maps, and the landmark I saw first was the James Bond Museum. Well shit, we gotta check that out! Their website is a dizzying mid-2000s era jumble and it…
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July 5th, 2024. KostaBoda.
Day 16: KostaBoda Finally, a cat! This is Lea and she’s a sweetheart. We spent the day at Ana’s workplace, the glass factory KostaBoda. It’s like a small village that has the factory, a galleries, shops selling the glassware, a small shopping mall, restaurants, a spa and a hotel. We looked around the other areas…
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July 4th, 2024. Road Trip to Boda Glasbruk.
Saying goodbye to our Idre neighborhood friends Started the drive dropping off our trash & recycling at the local grocery store. Sweden (like much of Europe) gets pretty specific about separating different kinds of waste – but unlike the US I think they actually DO appropriate recycling? Our AirB&B also had complex rules about things…
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July 4th, 2024. It Is My Holiday, No?
July 4th, Thursday morning – and the reindeer see us off one last time from our little cabin in Dalarna, Sweden. About an 11 hour drive (well, 6.5 if we didn’t stop for food, conversation, or Legos) to Alex and Ana’s place in Nybro. But we stopped for food, conversation AND Legos! Sigh. Watching weather…
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July 3rd, 2024. Idre Fjäll, Norway & sled dogs!
Day 14: Idre Fjäll, Norway & sled dogs! More reindeer, just chillin’— at Idre Fjäll. Today was full of wonderful surprises. We checked out Idre Fjäll, the ski resort just up the road from where we’re staying. There’s much less happening here in the offseason, but we saw they had a gondola ride up the mountain, and…
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July 2nd, 2024. Sweden.
This is not the off-season ski cabin in Idre. This is Lovely Swedish cabin from Sunday night in Sala! After the urban RUSH of Stockholm, it was wonderful to retreat to this literal log cabin in the woods. We spent the day and much of Monday morning just exploring in the rainy woods around us,…
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July 2nd, 2024. Fulufijället National Park.
Day 13: Fulufijället National Park at Fulufjället National Park. Grateful to be feeling better today – we drove about 45 minutes to a national park right on the border with Norway. We did an easy-moderate hike to Njupeskär Waterfall, Sweden’s highest falls. This park also apparently has one of the world’s oldest trees, a 9,550-year-old Norway…