Oslo – culture, architecture and a capital in change

Text and photo: Björn Erik Gustavsson

A flurry of impressions greet me... Super-designed high-rise buildings. The creak of trams. Sea air. Boats crisscrossing the fjord. Magnificent art museums... And everywhere a cheerful, sparkling language. "You just have to turn right and you're straight ahead."”

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Fotografiska in Stockholm – photographic art that provokes thought

Text and photo: Helena Bergström

Fotografiska in Stockholm is a museum we like to return to. The exhibitions change all the time, but our experience over the years has been the same: here you are often met with strong images, beautiful presentations and topics that provoke thought and make you reflect.

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Coburg in Germany – castles, palaces and a star chef

Text and photo: Jonathan Gharbi de Maré

We continue along Burgenstrasse and visit castles and experience German traditions and German food culture in southern Germany. Among other things, we learn about the measurements of sausages and get to meet a young star chef from Germany who is serving food at the world's largest samba festival outside of Brazil.

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Travel news: Bus + ferry, camping record and disruptive travelers

By: Editorial Office | Source: press material

It was Monday again and time for travel news. This week it's all about everything from combined bus and ferry trips to camping records, concerns about canceled flights and disruptive fellow travelers. Every Monday you'll find the week's travel news here!

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Food on Sifnos – local flavors and the island’s ceramic tradition

Text and photo: Helena Bergström

Sifnos is known for its food culture, but the food is also closely connected to another of the island’s strong traditions – ceramics. During our days on the island we managed to try local specialties like mastelo, revithadas, chickpea balls and melopita, find some really charming restaurants and visit potters who still keep the old craft alive.

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Friday Blog: We haven't even unpacked...

Writer: Helena Bergström

We've been home from Greece for a week now. The suitcases? They're still unpacked. We've simply had more important things to do. Or at least things that we obviously think are more important. We've become completely obsessed with updating FREEDOMtravel.

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Medical weight loss online with a doctor: safe digital care for obesity remotely

Writer: Samarabetspartner

Managing weight loss treatment while abroad places special demands on continuity and secure contact with healthcare. Digital consultations make it possible to receive medical advice and follow-up without waiting times and without hassle. In order to carry out treatment safely even while traveling, several practical and technical aspects need to be prepared.

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Visit a farm on Sifnos – Loumidis Family Farm

Text and photo: Helena Bergström

Tame rabbits, a sociable donkey, curious goats and a meal where almost everything on the table comes from the farm. Our visit to Loumidis Family Farm was one of the most charming experiences on Sifnos – and at the same time an interesting insight into how people have been farming on the arid Greek island for generations.

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AI is changing how we choose travel destinations

Writer: Co-operation partner

Choosing where to go on your next trip has long been a mix of dreams, recommendations and quite a few open tabs in the browser. Now artificial intelligence is starting to move the positions forward in the very phase where a vague idea turns into a concrete destination. The change does not mean that the classic search disappears, but it does mean that the questions can be significantly more personal from the start.

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The dream life also has a downside – about life as a long-distance sailor

Text and photo: Anki Palerby Hjelmqwist

I had been longing for a long time. Not for another new bay, another beautiful island or another evening with a sunset over the Mediterranean. This time I was longing for someone from home. For various reasons, one of my adult sons had never visited us on board abroad. Not once. But then suddenly the stars seemed to align.

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