Category: adventure
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Seventeenth birthday adventures
Ebba’s friend, a neighbor from the Berkeley days, came to spend a week with us. It was a whirlwind of travel and adventure mixed with lots of down-time for gaming and catching up. For a variety of pesky reasons, the eldest Noiceling and I missed a lot of the fun but luckily Bryant was able…
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A Provençal Holiday
One of my (Bryant’s) bucket list trips was lavender fields in Provence. As well, we have friends that just love that area and have encouraged us to check it out. Summer of 2025 was the time. We ended up super-lucky with the weather managing to arrive after the big heat wave, and also after the…
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Arctic Adventures
One of our family trips this summer of 2025 was planned as a nature trip to Tromsø Norway, at almost 70° North latitude, it is well in the arctic circle. After the Provence trip, Jen decided to skip this one, thinking that it would be a lot of hiking and bugs (spoiler – she was…
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Studenten Season in Skåne
The folks required lots of recovery time upon reaching Lund (a full day journey via taxi, ferry, commuter train, high speed train-with last minute platform change, bus). Our youngest (camp name Ebba) was still busy wrapping up her penultimate year at Katte but we squeezed in some small excursions close to home. Then on the…
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Gotland’s Chamber Choir
Uppsala University’s Choir at Campus Gotland has been an interesting outlet for the eldest Noiceling. She enjoys singing with them and the director appreciates her regular attendance. Drawing from quite a small pool of students and other community members, Director Dan may be a bit over ambitious, at least from Hil’s perspective. They have dabbled…
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Concordia Choir in Uppsala
We were fortunate enough to get a winter renter for our house in Saint Paul, but that further delayed my plans for a Spring visit. Then my parents began to consider a fun opportunity because the grandson of long-time family friends shared news of his upcoming Concordia College Choir Scandinavian tour. As a Concordia alumna,…
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Zealand’s Forest Tower
Our Gotlander was unable to make it home for the Easter holiday this week so we decided on just a short trip that’s been on the list since we first arrived in Sweden. It’s so close by that we always think we’ll get to it one day but we never do! Because it’s across the…
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København-Frederiksberg
Melissa’s 50th birthday gave us an excuse for another Øresunds Bro crossing and a day of adventure with said birthday girl, Erin and Glen, who was introduced to the American group awhile back (along with his Swedish husband, Anders). Glen and Anders met in Copenhagen and have spent a lot of time there so he…
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Winter limbo
It’s not really Winter weather but certainly not Spring. And while the days are getting longer, it’s quite dreary, with an occasional sunny hour here and there to give us hope. But then the daily crush of bad news leaves us heavy hearted, so we look for distractions and new hobbies to distract and give…
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Saint Paul, Solo
January flew by with a quick trip back to Minnesota. Though not a popular time to travel, the January trip offered a chance to fill prescriptions, restock some favorite products that we can’t easily get in Sweden, and catch up with friends and family. The kids were busy with the start of a new semester…