It's always a bit of a struggle when you're traveling, to find the best places for an entire group of people right. So I am going to list all of the places we had time to visit whilst we visited Trosa in Sweden and tell you a bit about them, so with springtime fast approaching I hope this will give you an idea of where to set your sights.

I am not going to give the restaurants and the experience we had on each restaurant their own posts, so instead, I am gonna cram them together in one bigger post. I hope that's okay with you, and maybe it's even easier to read them this way. Please let me know.

Tullhuset

Marina Libanese Restaurang in Trosa

Pizza @ Ankaret

Back at Tullhuset

On the day of our departure we revisited for a quick lunch before we took off to reality, we had some pasta and burgers. No, I did not have the pasta, Hanna did. I had myself a burger with bacon, and I have to say it was the perfect burger, served with fries, some coleslaw, and a coke.

There are of course a number of restaurants that we did not go to during our stay in Trosa, for a number of reasons. Either they were fully booked, redonkulous expensive on shrimps, or just not what we were looking at that moment. You know the drill on finding the perfect place, that not always easy, but maybe my recommendations can help you out a bit.

Enjoy your meal!
//Ann

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I have been trying to figure out how to write a bucketlist for the coming travel season, whenever that might start, and however that might look... We don't really know when we'll be able to travel safely again, so it's hard to give some kind of prediction for when we might get back out there. And I don't want to be unsafe, so I will not rush it at all, but a girl can still dream, right?

I am thinking that maybe it's for the best to stay within the closer areas of Sweden, and maybe go by bus or train to some of the closer countries that I actually have not visited yet. I know, shame on me! Some of them I have been to before though, like the Swedish cities I am mentioning below, but I would not mind visiting them again since it's been quite a few years ago.

Here are my bucketlistworthy destinations for 2021, in two versions... the closer one that's reachable with trains, busses, or boats, and the one with destinations further away but that might still be within reach. I haven't really allowed myself to go all-in this year, so this list is a bit skimmed down for all obvious reasons. I am thinking that we're most likely to stay within Sweden, but if we're lucky enough, then maybe - just maybe, we'll have a small window for traveling abroad.

Malmö in Sweden, by train.
Copenhagen in Denmark, by train.
Gotland in Sweden, by boat.
Tallinn in Estonia by boat.
Riga in Latvia by boat.
Gothenburg in Sweden, by train.
Oslo in Norway, by train.

Paris in France.
Lisbon in Portugal.
Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.
Vilnius in Lithuania.


We did bucketlists for 2019 and 2020, check them out if you want some more inspiration on where to travel. And looking back at the older bucketlists we have shared with you, I can see that Paris is on our list for the third year in a row, and so are Copenhagen and Edinburgh. I know we've been to Edinburgh several times, but seeing as a bucketlist is a list of goals, dreams, and aspirations, then Edinburgh can never be crossed off no matter how many times we visit, it's just my dream destination. It's the one place I think of as the first place I am going to visit as soon as the world opens up and it's safe enough to travel again. And for this year's Edinburgh trip, I am thinking it's in combination with Glasgow, so there's a small difference. But I should really start planning the trips to Paris and Copenhagen right, it's been a long time coming and I want to be able to have all my plans figured out when it's the right time to start booking the upcoming trips.


So what do you think, is it safe to start planning ahead or should we stick to just dreaming?
Last year came with a lot of cancellations and to be completely honest, we have already started the new year by canceling a few trips within Sweden, so I am having a bit of mixed emotion when it comes to starting planning ahead. But then, on the other hand, I don't really want to wait either... but let's stay on the bright side, the bucketlist is for 2021 does not seem to be all that far off, so that's a good thing, so maybe - just maybe we'll be able to check off some of the destinations.

//Ann

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I have been dreaming of going on a vacation for quite a while now, like most of you - and the rest of the world, so we tried our best to find a place where we can have a staycation and stay safe at the same time. We did a lot of research and found that having a staycation at Gålö Campsite was perfect for us!

From the beginning of the weekend until the end, we meet no-one other than the friends we shared the cottage with, so we practiced social distancing and had a corona-safe weekend. The check-in was done online and we picked up our key to the cottage outside the reception in a coded box. It's was super easy and the entire weekend felt totally corona friendly.

They had a good amount of different choices when it comes to accommodations like cottages, trailer and tent campsite, hostel, and the news for 2021 is glamping tents. We choose a cottage with 5 beds, that was perfect for us and some of our closest friends.

We did not do much during the weekend besides enjoying the feeling of not being at home, we did some barbequing, played some board games, had some wine, and laughed a lot. It was exactly the kind of break that I needed after spending so much time just staying at home, being in the car going to work, being at work, and then going home again. You all know that feeling.

Gålö is located about 40 kilometers south of the city center of Stockholm. If you go by train and bus it will take you approximately one and a half hours to get there. You take the train number 43 from Stockholm to Västerhaninge, continue by bus 845 to Gålö, with one connecting bus in Skälåker. The bus stops right outside the campsite, so it's super easy to get there. For us, it took about 30 minutes to get there by car, from door to door. Well, a bit longer, we had to make a stop to pet some goats but I'll tell you more about that in a later entry.

//Ann