Travel – Sweden

Saturday Snapshots #176

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  Fairground reflections (Liseberg, Gothenburg) – December 2011

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Saturday Snapshots #173

December 17, 2011

Christmas wreaths, Gothenburg – December 2011   If the idea of a Christmas market fills you with dread, then you clearly have not yet been to the Haga Christmas market in Gothenburg, Sweden.  Stalls line the streets of picturesque clapboard houses, carollers sing merrily, mugs of glögg are cradled, head-sized cinnamon buns are consumed, and [...]

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An oyster experience with Everts Sjöbod in Grebbestad (West Sweden, Part 5)

December 9, 2011

This is the fifth in a series of posts covering a Shellfish Journey to West Sweden on which I was very kindly invited by the West Sweden Tourist Board and Visit Sweden, together with five other food bloggers.  Part 1 covered Villa Sjotorp and a mussel safari from Lysekil; Part 2 covered a seafood buffet at Cafe Ferdinand in Lyskil; and Part 3 [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #171

December 3, 2011

Gothenburg quayside reflections – Sweden October 2011    You can read more about my trip to Sweden here, here, here and here.  An album of pictures is available on Flickr.   Saturday Snapshots is a series of non-food photographs published every Saturday on CookSister.  Previously featured photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots archive page. Photos featured [...]

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Hotel Ekenäs lobster safari and lobster dinner (West Sweden, Part 4)

December 1, 2011

This is the fourth in a series of posts covering a Shellfish Journey to West Sweden on which I was very kindly invited by the West Sweden Tourist Board and Visit Sweden, together with five other food bloggers.  Part 1 covered Villa Sjotorp and a mussel safari from Lysekil; Part 2 covered a seafood buffet at Cafe Ferdinand in Lyskil; and Part 3 [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #170

November 26, 2011

Light and shade, South Koster Island, October 2011   On a recent trip to West Sweden, I spent a morning walking around the peacefully car-free South Koster Island, which was ablaze with Autumn colours.  Even though you may take a hundred photos of Autumn leaves, there is always one that ends up being the perfect [...]

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South Koster island and lunch at Kosters Trädgårdar (West Sweden, Part 3)

November 25, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts covering a Shellfish Journey to West Sweden on which I was very kindly invited by the West Sweden Tourist Board and Visit Sweden, together with five other food bloggers.  Part 1 covered Villa Sjotorp and a mussel safari from Lysekil; and Part 2 covered a seafood buffet at Cafe Ferdinand in Lyskil.  Further [...]

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