TRAVEL BLOG COMMUNITY
It’s official. I’m wanderlusting hard core. Where to next? What’s on the list? It’s a nightly discussion over here in our house. You too? If you haven’t been to Copenhagen in winter, it might be a perfect destination to discover at this time of year. Seriously – come for Christmas. Experience the Jul. Or even just this winter. Denmark does hygge. You’ve heard of it right? It’s delightful. And delicious and all sorts of cozy. We’ll do that. Don’t worry. But we might do something else too. Maybe, a wee excursion. (Hands rubbing in gleeful delight.)
So where are we going for winterferie mom? Winter break. Still pending. I’m still working on it. Trying my best to work out the best deal and still accommodate everyone’s wishes is a delicate balancing act around here. Especially when you have more than one potentially moody, but engaged and energetic (read opinionated) member of your family at the table. I love it. They have wandering wish lists as well. I created this challenge. I encouraged their world view. Where to next? Where would you?
Maybe one of the amazing places from last week’s Faraway Files travel blog linkup. We were taken trekking and hiking and diving on wrecks. Looked for wombats and orangutans and found octopus lollies. Say what? Eeuw? It’s true. We traveled from England to Fiji to Canada and Jordan. In the travel blog collection. Last week’s Faraway Files.
FARAWAY FILES #8 FAVORITES
These are my favorites from last week. If you missed them all – no worries – read here. Plenty of inspiration for far flung experiences to be uncovered.
Feet do Travel showed us beautiful and wild Borneo, with monkeys and vipers and spiders and apes. But I loved the beautiful scuba diving and finding Nemo on the reef.

Ali of What Ali Sees reminded us of the joy in taking a simple but gorgeous nature walk at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. I so wanted a wombat to come out of this hole too! Maybe my favorite pic of the week!

Mummy Travels took us to Lake Inle in Burma and helps with what inspires littles and parents alike. It all looks lovely to me.

And I never knew how much I want to go to Kyoto, Japan until Hilary Style Me shared this post. Sushi and sakura and shinto shrines, I’m sold.

So where to this week. Where should we add to our list? Our wonderful wanderlusting wish list. Or just tell me where to go for winterferie. Seriously I need help – I’m still open!
FARAWAY FILES LINKUP #9
WANT TO JOIN IN?
We’d love you to join us in building a supportive community who will inspire and share each other’s posts. All three hosts will try to read and comment on every post and we’ll share them on social media too. Each week we’ll choose our favourites and highlight them on our blogs and social media channels using #FarawayFiles.
We’d love you to join us in building a supportive community who will inspire and share each other’s posts. All three hosts will try to read and comment on every post and we’ll share them on social media too. Each week we’ll choose our favourites and highlight them on our blogs and social media channels using #FarawayFiles.
How it works:
- Link up one travel-related post and add the Faraway Files badge onto the post or your blog (code below) or link back to the hosts.
- The link up will go live every Thursday at 8am, UK time (9am, CET) until midnight on Friday. It will alternate between Untold Morsels, Suitcases and Sandcastles and Oregon Girl around the World. This week – you’re in luck! It’s right here! Woot woot!
- Link ups work best if everyone shares so please comment on all three of the hosts’ posts and at least two others.
- Tweet us your posts (@suitandsand, @UntoldMorsels, @oregongirlworld) using the hashtag #FarawayFiles and we’ll retweet to our followers.
- Share your #swoonworthy travel images on Instagram. Tag @FarawayFiles and #FarawayFiles – we’ll repost our favorites.
- We are posting each week’s links on our Pinterest page for you to follow.
- Find Faraway Files on Facebook. Like us. We’ll like your page. We’re friendly that way.
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This week – I want to share Orvieto. I think it is the most charming hill town in Italy. Come see why. Join in – add your link here:

Hi Erin, I am so glad you enjoyed Borneo – finding Nemo is always my favourite part of diving as well, it always brings a smile to my face (which is a bit difficult when you are underwater with a regulator in your mouth lol). Thank you for the mention and I’m looking forward to reading this week’s posts 🙂
I’ve only seen one in my diving career!
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Copenhagen is looking like it’ll definitely be my next winter weekend away – I’ll be taking some tips from your post about it.
Let me know if you do plan a winter visit!
I’m with you- totally wanderlusting. Our last trip was in October and our next one isn’t until February. But we swore off traveling with kids during the holidays because of how busy it is so I’m just throwing myself into Christmas to forget about it, haha.
Ooooh – headed somewhere fun in Feb? Do share – do share!
I’m so happy you enjoyed my Kyoto post! It was really the most magical place and our entire family agrees the best trip ever! Thank you for the mention it means a lot!! I too am seriously wanderlusting this time of year and I’m not sure if #farawayfiles is the cure or the cause, but either way I’m excited to see where it takes me this week!!
There’s so many places, how can you choose? I haven’t been to Prague before, maybe that would be a good Christmassy winter break? Or Germany for the Christmas markets! Copenhagen sounds exciting… but expensive. Wherever you go, have a blast!
There are ways to keep costs down in Scandinavia – let me know if you need tips!
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Thank you so much for including my post – love remembering that trip and all the travel inspiration from the linky. Belated happy birthday too!
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