For more than a hundred years, Verona, Italy, has hosted one of the world's most famous opera festivals. The performances take place in a two-thousand-year-old open-air amphitheater with space for tens of thousands of spectators. The "Arena di Verona" is the same size as the Colosseum in Rome - and thus one of the largest arenas ever built during Roman times.
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How do you afford to travel so much? That's the question journalist and travel writer Heléne Katzman gets asked more often than anyone else. And perhaps it's not so strange.
In a typical year, she is home for about a month. The rest of the time, she finds herself somewhere between psytrance festivals around the world, family in Malaysia, and adventures and volunteer trips in Europe and South America.
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Music has a remarkable ability to take us back in time. A song can be a place, a person or a moment - sometimes all at once. Here's a list of songs that we associate with different memories and emotions. Feel free to copy the list and add your own songs and memories - in a comment or your own blog!
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We have made an excursion to Malmö! A while ago, Peter declared that "don't book anything between 7-8 March - because then we'll do something special, just you and me". What, what? What did he have in mind?
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The Chinateatern in Stockholm is currently playing a new round of "Dreamgirls - The Musical", from 21 February to 16 March 2025. We experienced the musical last Friday, and it was an evening filled with speed and excitement.
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This summer, Diggiloo will play 24 concerts in 24 different cities in Sweden, in a 3.5-hour music show. According to the organisers of Diggiloo, it's a show that appeals to all ages. After this year's visit, I can agree that it does.
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We have experienced two evenings of Greek inspiration. Or rather, Peter has experienced two evenings of Greek inspiration. And now we're keen to put together a trip!
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Updated: August 2026 | The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is a concert hall, but also a landmark. When we visited the concert hall in 2022, the building turned 5 years old and in connection with that, a lot of extra festivities were arranged. We took a look at the beautiful building both from the outside and from the inside.
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Updated: August 2026 | We have taken a guided Beatles tour in Hamburg, and we can highly recommend this. Very interesting and very fascinating! It was in Hamburg that the world-famous band started their career in the early 1960s.
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Birgit Nilsson Museum tells the story of the farmer's daughter who became a world star. Sometimes reality surpasses poetry, and this is such an occasion. Do you like fascinating stories about special people? Then the Birgit Nilsson Museum is for you!
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