Stockholm, Sweden – Onsdag Wanderlust – Volume IV

It’s Onsdag. Its on. Let’s travel somewhere – virtually – together! (For previous Wednesday wanderings – click on the menu above and read earlier versions – we all need inspiration!) Time to add some color and graphic imagery to your wanderlust this Wednesday. Today I want to share one of my new favorite cities. I know, I know – I have a lot, maybe I’m just a lover. Of new and beautiful and amazing. And THAT is Stockholm. Well, new to me anywho. It’s actually chock full of history and culture and art and action and water and all the trappings of a city that will charm your socks off. I almost felt like I was cheating on my Scandinavian partner with whom I have entered into a committed relationship. Sorry Copenhagen – I still love you, but Stockholm was quite a flirt and I enjoyed the performance!

Continue reading “Stockholm, Sweden – Onsdag Wanderlust – Volume IV” →

Tiny Torekov in Southern Sweden

There’s Something Special in Skåne Sweden

Coastal Torekov is a Town Worth Your Time

(Originally posted June 2015, updated March 2024)

Slated with a day off from work and school, we as proper Gustafsons of some long forgotten Swedish heritage, took to the road and headed straight for our Scandi neighbor – beautiful Sweden. We are lucky to have friends from Oregon that live in the little beachy town of Torekov on the water in the lovely Skåne region of southern Sweden.

It wasn’t our first trip to Torekov, our first back in January when it was a little colder and darker. Like most Scandinavian summer towns, Torekov is quiet and sleepy in the winter. Shift forward five months, add a powerful dose of extended daily light growing quickly towards midsommer celebrations late June and you’ll find fields full of brilliant yellow rapeseed and trees flaunting fresh verdant foliage against blue blue blue skies.  Suddenly, southern Sweden is the place to be.

Continue reading “Tiny Torekov in Southern Sweden” →