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This week's FREEDOMtravel news is all about Christmas dinner, Christmas travel and Christmas presents. Among other things. As we went through this week's crop of travel news, there was no doubt that we are slowly but surely moving towards Christmas. What about you, have you started planning for any Christmas dinners, trips and gifts? Or do you think it's too early to think about Christmas in the middle of November?

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Swedish National Culinary Team composes Viking Line's Christmas table

This year's Christmas table on Viking Line is signed by the Swedish National Culinary Team. The guests are promised traditional Christmas dishes, but also many green dishes and accessories, such as syrup-fried turnips with whiskey heads and saffron-cooked fennel in white wine sauce.

The Christmas table is served in Viking Line's buffet restaurants from 17 November to 26 December on all vessels except Viking Cinderella, which has its Christmas table period from 20 November to 26 December. The Christmas table costs from SEK 299 including drinks.

The most "Christmassy" cities selected

Global travel search site Skyscanner asked nearly 600 of its visitors what they think makes a city feel like Christmas, and the answer is that lights and decorations are most important, followed by a cosy Christmas market and lots of snow. So a real Christmas city should ideally have these three components. Skyscanner also asked visitors to vote for the Swedish Christmas city of the year and Stockholm received the most votes, followed by Gothenburg and Malmö, Östersund and Visby. In Europe, London received the most votes, followed by Lübeck and Berlin.

Plenty of group travel over Christmas

The travel company Rolfs Flyg & Buss reminds us that many people in Sweden live in single households and that Christmas is a time when loneliness can be particularly difficult. Their suggestion is to go on a social group trip and they recommend their own group trips to Dalarna, Lübeck in Germany, Innsbruck in Austria and Cascais in Portugal.

For those who want to celebrate Christmas in more exotic places, they recommend Jambotours group tours to Vietnam and Tanzania, and Temaresor group tours to Burma and the Serengeti including Zanzibar.

Soon the Christmas present of the year will be chosen

Dagens Analys reports that soon, on 21 November, it will be time for HUI to name the 30th edition of the year. Christmas present. The odds suggest that smart speakers and smart watches are in good shape. Possible contenders are a trip, a foot massager or a crock pot (slow cooker with a timer).

Last year's Christmas gift of the year was the VR glasses, and the year before that the robot vacuum cleaner, but the most famous Christmas gift is probably the baking machine, first introduced in 1988.

Greece sets tourism record

With over 30 million visitors so far this year, it is already clear that Greece set a new tourism record in 2017, reports TravelNews. Visitor growth is strong from almost all European countries, including Scandinavia.

In addition, visits from the US, Canada, Russia, the Middle East, China and the UK have increased. Some explanations for the increase are the addition of more than 150 new flights to the country, and that routes that normally end at the end of October have continued until January.

Couple cheated out of airline tickets

Expressens Allt om Resor reported yesterday on a couple who were cheated out of the tickets they bought through the travel search service Travelgenio. At the airport in Costa Rica, they could not find the airline they were travelling with, and the staff had never heard of it.

Eventually, they found another airline name on the ticket, but that airline did not include them in the passenger lists. The couple called Travelgenio, which is supposed to have a 24/7 customer service, but did not get through. They ended up having to buy new tickets. Since 2015, Travelgenio has been reported six times to the Swedish Consumer Agency.

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