Tag: travel tips

  • 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… →

  • Jakarta (CGK)-Copenhagen (CPH), enaknya naik apa?

    Sejak pindah ke Swedia dan beberapa kali menempuh rute CGK-CPH dengan bergonta-ganti maskapai, sejumlah kawan meminta saya mereview rute dan maskapai-maskapai tersebut. Sejujurnya, saya (atau kami lebih tepatnya), tidak punya preferensi khusus dalam memilih maskapai. Hanya tiga hal yang selama ini kami jadikan acuan: Satu kali transit (karena lebih dari itu terlalu rempong buat kami… →

  • A Week in Lisbon, Portugal

    To be honest, Lisbon had never been on my bucket list. It never crossed my mind to visit this capital city of Portugal before. I mean, I don’t have any special memory or obsession with the city (unlike what I have with Milan, Venice or Amsterdam 😄 ). So when Zaki told me that he’s… →

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