10-year wedding anniversary

Today we celebrate our 10-year wedding anniversary. How time flies, huh? In a way it feels like we just got married, and at the same time it feels like it's been a very long time! We have done a lot since then ...

We have been working hard most of the time, with everything from regular jobs to apartment renovations and a blog. We have also experienced a lot and had a lot of fun. Here is a summary of our ten years of marriage. I have tried to keep it short, but of course it was not easy ...

2007

We live in Sundbyberg and we both work full time - Peter as a carpenter with his own construction company and I as a public health expert in Stockholm County Council. Our wedding we plan without telling anyone, and we get married at the Swedish Embassy in Stockholm. Vietnam on 4 June 2007. Then there will be a three-week honeymoon in beautiful Halong Bay and charming Hoi An.

Later that year we go to Kenya and our most dramatic journey ever. There is unrest during the elections, resulting in the deaths of a thousand people and the displacement of a million. We dramatically make our way to Tanzaniawhere we holiday in Tanga and Zanzibar.

2008

We take a look at the map book to choose our holiday destination and find that Ukraine has coastline on the Black Sea (that was before Putin invaded...). We take Peter's youngest son and his cousin on sunshine holidays in Odessa and the Crimean peninsula.

In the same year we have time for a trip to Malta and a ski trip to Sälen with Peter's construction company. This year we also buy our motorhome! We have never camped before, but got hooked on the idea during a trip to New Zealand in 2006/2007.

2009

We are absolutely thrilled in our motorhome! We rebuild everything in it and go on short trips in Sweden every weekend. We also start our blog to document the motorhome life and the trips. In the summer we go on motorhome holidays in Italy with the youngest son and his cousin.

Then we also have time for a motorhome trip with the eldest son to the concert/party "Sensation White" in Copenhagen. Since we liked Ukraine, it will be Christmas and New Year in Kiev!

2010

Peter and I are going to Sensation White by ourselves in Belgium in the spring. In the summer we holiday in Poland with the motorhome together with the eldest son and his girlfriend. Then we take the youngest son and his cousin on a campervan trip through northern Sweden. Christmas is celebrated in Morocco with his youngest son.

2011

Peter and I are celebrating the new year in Budapest. Then there will be a motorhome trip to Sensation White in Oslo with the eldest son and his girlfriend. In the summer we make a motorhome trip to Croatia and Italy. The first part of the trip we have the youngest son and his mate with us. After half the time they fly home and the oldest son and his girlfriend come down and continue the journey with us.

2012

We get to know a girl who comes from Kenyaand she wants to show us a different Kenya than the bloody country we saw the first time. We follow her to Nairobi, a big wedding and the Kenyan countryside.

This year we also have time for a trip to Canada (where I am attending a scientific conference), a motorhome holiday in the Poland, a trip to Iceland (which we won via Reseguiden) and a Christmas and New Year's holiday to Malaysia.

2013

We win a trip to Barcelona with Expedia. We go on a motorhome trip to Öland with the youngest son and his girlfriend and then - we buy the houseboat! All autumn we renovate the houseboat while it is in the water. Over Christmas we are travelling to Philippines.

2014

We are going on a blogging trip for the first time, and that trip is to Morocco. It's an amazing journey, but we're also getting more into the 'blogging world' than ever before. We are highlighting the houseboat on land during the summer, working around the clock on renovations.

Moreover, in some strange way, I manage to complete my disputation in September. Shortly thereafter, we'll join our friends in Poland, and in November we'll set off on the 1 year long trip around Europe with the motorhome.

2015

For most of this year, we are fulfilling our dream: travelling around Europe with our motorhome without stress. We are travelling along the coast, starting in Normandy in the France. We continue through the north Spain, Portugal, southern Spain, southern France and around Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

We continue through the south Italy, northern Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, northern Italy, Austria, Germany and back to Sweden. When we get back to Sweden, we will be travelling on a blog tour to Rigaeven before we get access to the houseboat ...

2016

Now we are back home and trying to adjust to a "normal" life. I have lost my position in the county council, and am taking temporary jobs at the Karolinska Institute. Peter takes temporary jobs as a carpenter, but spends more and more time on the blog.

We travel on many different trips throughout the year: blog trip to Finland, "Golden Pen Award" in Split in Croatia, motorhome holidays in Istria in Croatia, blog trip to Hungary, press trip to Czech Republic, Poland with friends, Malta and Christmas markets in Zagreb, Prague and Warsaw …

2017

We start the year with a ski trip to Austria. In February I get a new job in the Stockholm County Council, at the County Council's administration. Peter will take over a lot of the practical aspects of the blog and is starting to learn more about film. At the same time, we have time to travel to Malta, Tallinn and Amsterdam.