Oslo Christmas market ..

We walk through the city of Oslo in a cold winter evening with lots of ice, melting here and there making the walk difficult. We come to the  more vibrant part of the city towards Karl Johans gate and found out  Christmas market of Oslo. It is a beautiful market with lots of handmade winter...

Leaving Kiruna …

After January, I planned to return to India for a while from Kiruna. It was not going to be easy leaving Kiruna. I lived there in summer and winter.. this time we had a small room in a shared apartment though our rent was pretty high.  Whole day, as my husband left for his day, I...

Kiruna: this time of the year..

This year, winter is not cold in Kiruna! Here in December usually temperatures should be below -10, but not this year. The snow is thin, and temperature is toggling around -5. The global warming does have its effects. Still, the sky is beautiful, while sun sets and rises .. days are short usually few hours....

Stockholm in Winter …

My flight landed in Stockholm Arlanda airport in a cold winter afternoon. I had my connecting train to North at 4 o'clock from Stockholm central station, so I thought I would take Arlanda express there. I had many things in mind, to take exchange, buy ticket of Arlanda express, board the train at right time...

Luleå, the town by the frozen sea

Sometimes, you step into a place, and you just know you want to be there, for long. It may not be the best known tourist place, but it has its own charm that grows deep on you and you fall in love with that place. Luleå is such a place for me 🙂 Luleå is...

Ice Hotel, Lapland

ICE hotel is probably the most travelled destination for tourists in Swedish Lapland in winter. It is indeed a great and unique architecture, and worth sharing. It is easy to go ICE hotel, when you are living in Norrbotten county and have the bus card, otherwise it is connected by air and train. Both from...

Bromsgatan, Kiruna

There are thousands of snow covered apartments and streets in Europe, so why Bromsgatan!! Not that it is a big tourist attraction .. nothing unusual is here than a quiet snow covered neighbourhood ..then why I am posting it?  Because my friends, soon it is going to be part of history ... As many of...

The frozen river and more Jukkasjärvi..

If you scroll back in my blog in Sami Village, you can see the sunny pictures of Jukkasjervi in Summer. So, it was amazing to see how everything has been turned white in  Christmas time. The winter has its own beauty in this little village of Sweden. As I have the bus card, it is...

Winter in Lapland…

My dear friends , first of all I wish you a very happy, bright, successful and peaceful new year, wherever in world you are. I know may be I am little late to say that, but I believe,there is no specific time for spreading love 😀 I am spending this new year in Swedish Lappland, one of...

First snow of last year..

Last winter, I was living in Toulouse. My professor told me, it is uncommon to snow in Toulouse. Though the temperature goes down, but usually the leafless branches  and chilly wind welcome the winter instead of frank snowing. So, when I woke up in the morning in a Saturday and  lift my curtain, I was happily...