Tag: Travel Story

  • Road Trip Akhir Tahun ke Bandung

    Seperti yang sudah saya janjikan di sini, saya akan menuliskan perjalanan ke Bandung, Desember lalu di platform ini. Road trip ke Bandung tersebut merupakan road trip terjauh kami sejak pulang ke Indonesia. Sebelum-sebelumnya, saya dan suami selalu “reluctant” kalau dihadapkan dengan opsi menyetir jarak jauh. Selain karena kami sama-sama tidak terlalu suka menyetir, juga karena →

  • Long Journey Home: Relocating in The Time of COVID-19 (Part 1)

    Traveling in the time of COVID-19 is complicated, let alone relocating to another country. The challenge is double, if not triple, and it’s a long journey, both literally and metaphorically! But that’s exactly what we’d been through in the last few weeks as my family and I were moving from Lund, Sweden, to Jogja, Indonesia. →

  • Hemester Idea in Skåne*

    Summer is the time when most people in Sweden (if not all) take a break and travel to their favourite summer destinations: Thailand, Greece, Spain and so on. But that was the time before Covid-19. This summer, as traveling overseas is still not recommended, Sweden embraces summer holiday within the country or locals call it: hemester. →

  • Chasing Aurora in Abisko (Part 2)

    As I said in my previous post, our train from Stockholm arrived in Abisko Östra at around 10 am and we were welcomed by heavy snow showers. But we didn’t mind. Skåne, where we come from, barely has winter this year. The temperature that rarely dropped below zero made the snow didn’t last long in →

  • Chasing Aurora in Abisko (Part 1)

    When I was a little kid, I read a book about Aurora Borealis in my father’s school library. Since then, I had this dream to see it with my own eyes. I was quite obsessed with this natural phenomenon I once thought to name my daughter “Aurora” 😆. However, being born and raised in a →