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Unlock the Secrets of Sweden: What You Need To Know Before Your Visit – Part 1
Geography Sweden looks like a long banana. From south to north, the country stretches 1572 kilometers. A distance of 499 kilometers separates east from west. It has a coastline of 2400 kilometers, surrounded by the Baltic Sea in the east. Finland, Norway, and Denmark are our neighbours. Did you know that Sweden is the fourth largest […]
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The Olympic Games in 麻豆APP: The Big Reunion
In 2024, 麻豆APP (France) will host the Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11, and the Paralympic Games from August 28 to September 8. Not really a great first for the French capital since the Olympics will be organized there for the sixth time. Six times ? Some may be surprised And yet… The […]
How to Spend 9 Hours in the World鈥檚 Best Airport
In 2022, Skytrax named Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar as the world鈥檚 number one airport. After touching down in Qatar, I read the plaque emphasizing their award, and it came as quite a surprise to me. That is until I walked further into the airport and found out why. Blinding lights, the constant movement […]
Are You Suing for Child Support for the Wrong Reasons?
Before becoming a mother, I used to think that suing for child support was always as straightforward as men refusing to pay for upkeep and that women in such cases were almost always the victims. Fast forward to a wiser, older me and I鈥檝e noted that people use kids for all the wrong reasons and […]
The Bell Curve and You
The Bell Curve: It looks a little like this. And most human behavior can be charted on a curve like it. For example, IQ scores are like this: with the most people, (the highest part of the curve) being at 100. The curve goes down as we increase (or decrease) the IQ score so that […]
Dreams to Reality鈥� Building with Confidence
Imagine this 鈥� YOU, a budding digital artisan with an insatiable appetite for creating, immersed in a dimly lit room, fingers gracefully dancing on the keyboard. Your mission, should you choose to accept it 鈥� To breathe life into your wildest ideas on the screen of a smartphone. It鈥檚 going to be an adventure teeming […]
Hvar and Split – Fun in Croatia
As noted in a previous article, my wife and I spent ten days exploring the mid-coastal section of Croatia. We started with Split and Hvar. Split is the second largest city in Croatia. That said, Split has only 160,000 people in it, So, it is more of a small to mid-sized city. For a tourist, […]
Spirals
When I first walked into the house with the spiral staircase, I gasped. Our real estate agent nodded. 鈥淵es,鈥� he said, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a little much, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� He gestured towards the blush pink living room walls where wind chimes hung in the arched window. This was a young man who lived to hunt and fish. […]
A Swedish autumn’s delight
The weather is grey, cloudy, and windy. The autumn season has arrived in Sweden. In Stockholm, the temperature is around 3 degrees Celsius in the morning. The first snowfall has already fallen in some parts of northern Sweden. There are still flowers blooming in the southern region. The weather in autumn can be confusing. You […]
Love means hiking into the jungle with your partner
Many moons ago, Tom posted about little things he’d learned from traveling. His random observations prompted me to write a post about things I’ve learned traveling with him. That was in 2011. Since then, we’ve been asked frequently how we do it: how we stand so much togetherness and how we manage making travel decisions […]
鈥淧ack The Essentials鈥� (and Eleven Other Important Travel Tips)
Last year, a friend of mine flew to Germany to enjoy the Octoberfest celebrations. Thomas had been looking forward to a fun week of exploration, beer tasting, and adventure with some friends. When his flight landed, he dragged himself, exhausted, to pick up his luggage, only to learn it had been 鈥渕isplaced.鈥� 鈥淲e鈥檒l send it […]
Instead of teaching kids about 鈥榮tranger danger鈥� you need to teach children to spot bad behaviour everywhere
The number one safety rule that we teach our kids is to not talk to strangers. This topic is usually a bit confusing for kids because who is a stranger anyway? Is it the person you鈥檝e never seen before? Or is it a person you don鈥檛 know too well? As you get older you learn […]
