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A night in a yurt in Mongolia

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Today we will tell you about the time we spent a night in a yurt in Mongolia. This is probably one of the most exciting travelling experiences we had. As well as trying to live in a nomadic tent, we had the opportunity to experience food shortages on a 24-hour train journey, eat horse milk balls and drop a camera right in front of a horse's hooves...

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Lake Baikal - the deepest lake in the world

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world - how exotic does that sound? On our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway we stopped in Irkutsk in Siberia, and from here it is not far to Listvyanka and the deepest lake in the world. Of course, we had to go there!

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Irkutsk, Russia - The Paris of Siberia

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Today we will take you to Irkutsk in Siberia, which we visited in the summer of 2006. We continue today to tell you about our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway that started in Moscow and continued all the way to Beijing. But we are going to tell you about the first stop, the one that happened after about four days on the train.

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Experiences in Moscow - in the heart of Russia

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Today we offer some experiences in Moscow, from our trip in 2006. We started with a flight from Stockholm to Moscow, and then we continued with the Trans-Siberian railway through Russia, to Mongolia and China. It will be a series of these I think... But as I said, we start in Moscow!

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Sun holidays on the Crimean peninsula in 2008 - before the Crimean crisis

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Writer: Helena Bergström

The Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. We tell you about the wonderful holiday in Yalta, Ukraine in 2008 before the Crimean crisis in 2014. Today it is not recommended to go to the Crimean Peninsula. That's why we're going to take you there and show you what it looked like before the crisis and how wonderful it was there. Come to the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine!

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Odessa, Ukraine - sun holiday 2008

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Today we tell you about our trip to Odessa in Ukraine in 2008, which we did together with Peter's son Billie and his cousin Pontus. We are looking through old photos and realise that we have done a lot of trips that we have barely written about, as we did them before we started the blog. Our trip to Ukraine in the summer of 2008 is one of them. Today we take you to Odessa on the Black Sea.

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Best bags for travelling

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Writer: Helena Bergström

What are the best bags for travelling? We've finally figured out what's smart for us! We each have four bags that we combine in different ways on every trip - a suitcase, a cabin bag, a backpack and a handbag/shoulder strap bag. Today we tell you what we think is most important about a bag to make it suitable for travelling.

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10 popular countries on our blog

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Today we present 10 popular countries on our blog FREEDOMtravel. We have, for various reasons, delved a little into statistics, and it's just as well that we share them with you! We have checked which pages and posts have been read the most in 2017 and until today, and looked at which countries are at the top. Which country would you like to read more about - one of these or something completely different?

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Small motorhomes - trend of the year?

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Small motorhomes - could this be the trend of the year? When we travelled around Europe in 2015, we saw how popular small motorhomes were in southern Europe, and the same trend has been evident in Germany. Even the Nordic fairs have seen a yearly increase in the number of small motorhomes, known as 'vans' or even more commonly as 'platoons'.

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The ABBA Museum in Stockholm - lots of nostalgia

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Writer: Helena Bergström

This week Peter visited the ABBA Museum in Stockholm. The museum opened in May 2013 and we have been thinking about visiting it ever since. Isn't it strange that you are so bad at getting away to things in your own city ...!? A nice and interesting museum! Have you been here?

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