Travel – Sweden

Saturday Snapshots #166

October 29, 2011

  Turning leaf, South Koster Island, Sweden – October 2011   South Koster Island is a small island off the northern coast of West Sweden.  It is home to Koster Gardens, an inspiring place run by Stefan and Helena that's part market garden, part restaurant, part music and course venue.  The gardens include a couple [...]

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Café Ferdinand and Strandflickorna Hotel, Lysekil (West Sweden, Part 2)

October 27, 2011

[The registration phase for the South African Blog Awards 2011 closed today.  I have registered my blog on the (admittedly illogical) advice of organiser Chris Rawlinson.  But I have every reason to believe I will be disqualified.  The Best Overseas Blog category has been scrapped and the new rules introduced this year require bloggers to [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #165

October 22, 2011

South Koster Island, West Sweden – October 2011 The Koster Islands are situated off the north coast of West Sweden, not a million miles from Norway, and are Sweden's most westerly inhabited islands.  South Koster covers an area of only about 8 square kilometres, so it is perfectly possible to walk or cycle the whole [...]

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Villa Sjotorp and a mussel safari in Lysekil (West Sweden, Part 1)

October 20, 2011

Is it possible to feel homesick for a place where you have never lived?  If you had asked me a week ago, the answer would have been an emphatic no.  But that was then, before I had visited West Sweden.  This is the first in a series of posts covering a Shellfish Journey to West [...]

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