Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a very nice, calm Christmas and a happy new year. I am still here in Sweden and my home and just relaxing.

Have a small tree this year, but with lights and no ornaments. Hope you like it!?

In the window I always have huacints that brings the lovely perfume to my home.

And then a pic from two weeks ago, when we still had snow. It is raining today and very windy.

Merry Christmas to you all!!

Photos: Agneta Nisbeth

More from Spain and a hip hotel in Meloneras

Here is som more photos from the elegant hotel Lopesan Baobab resort and spa in Meloneras in Gran Canaria in Spain.

This is one of the elegant and hip, designed chairs that you could find in the hotel.

And as I wrote about last time the hotel have an african theme, this is one of the bars.

It is also a lot of green plants and lush gardens everywhere.

Photo: Agneta Nisbeth

At Lopesan Baobab

If you want to stay in a hotel that reminds you of Africa without leaving Europe, this is the answer: Hotel and resort Lopesan Baobab in Gran Canaria.

It is an amazing place, really well done and beautiful, day and night.

This is a big, big resort in the upmarket "town" of Meloneras, just outside Malspalomas.

And here you can choose from a lot of big pools, not that I used them thou. I am just to cold to swim in 22 degrees, when it is a freezing wind, sorry!

But there is water all over the place, both ponds and pools so I did enyoy them!

And one thing I really loved about this place was the morning yoga at one of the pools.

Photo: Nisbeths resblogg

Christmas i Stockholm

Hope you all have a nice Christmas, today it is the second of Advent. And I give you som pics from Sweden and Stockholm.

Here you can se one of the most exclusive shoppingstreets in the morning, Biblioteksgatan in Stockholm.

Every year the big department store NK have a new Christmas display in the windows for the children, this is the one 2016.

Another pic from NK, a big Christmas tree. Just for the shoppers.

Here we are in Sergels torg, just outside Kulturhuset and close to Åhléns, another big department store.

And then a pic from my home.

My new book - in Swedish!

Just got my new book, Mitt nya liv som katt, only in Swedish so sorry if you do not speak my language!

It is a feelgood novel about love, sex and finding yourself in this stressfull world, and a lot more...

If you do, you can buy it here››

Or:

Buy it here at Adlibris››

Autumn is here

After a varm and really long summer now is the time to say goodbye to the warmer days, because autumn is here in Sweden.

The sky is blue today but it is really windy. It is so wonderful to see all the different colors in the nature, here outside my home.

Leafs in red and yellow colors are all over my garden. As you well know by now, I live outside Uppsala, close to the airport of Stockholm, Arlanda.

I have been feeling badly for a long time and spent a lot of my days at home, but hopefully I am getting better and can resume a more normal life. And go travel the world again!

Have a nice week!

The beauty of Swedish summer

More photos from my lovely Sweden here. You tend to forget how beautiful your own country is sometimes, especially when you travel  a lot. So here you are.

First some yellow fields just ouside my house.

Here we have some cherries in a tree, first time we had these many, did a nice jam.

Then this, with the city of Uppsala just 25 minutes away.

Just not the nature this time, but also two sweet horses.

Best burger in town :)

I love to make my own hamburgers here in Sweden, they are east to make and taste really good. Add you don't have to start the outside grill.

The patties are made of the best meat and just salt and pepper, here I serve it with a pesto-mayo and tomatoes plus some rocket. I just use my my grill pan on the stove. Work almost as well rainy days.

Have a happy summer!

Red house in the green

Just another photo from Sweden, during the summer of 2016. A red, old house in the green nature that surrounds it.

The house was my father and mothes old summerhouse when I was really small, we then called it Råttstugan, the rat house... Today it is under renovation, so no more rats here soon I hope.

And then some lovely flowers in my livingroom.

Pray for peace

Have no words, just hope love and peace will win over hate and terror. And RIP to all victims in  France.

My heart go out to all of the victims in Nice. Take care of each other.

#PrayforNice

Foto: Art by Gunvor - Jesus on the cross in wood

Love flowers of all kind

More summer pictures, here two more from my garden in Sweden. First from the wall of my house with a pink rose and some clematis.

Flowers slimbing upp the wall.

And then these white shrubs that gives me a lovey perfume every day.

They are called Philadelphus virginalis in English, Schersmin in Swedish.

A green summer

As you know by now, summer is my favorite season of the year. All is green and my world out here in the countryside of Sweden is so beautiful.

A really green walk here, like in a tunnel of trees.

And this is another photo from Sweden, a red villa and red roses, just outside Uppsala.

A red house witg a blue door, green grass and yellow flowers...

Looking for a room in Naples?

A friend of mine have a lovely place in the central Naples, in the south of Italy. and it is called Quattrogatti, four cat's.
You can find it on airbnb - the link further down here.

The quiet house is located in inner city and exactly in Corso Vittorio Emanuele scenic route. 
Here is a video of the city:

Read more here - on airbnb about Quattrogatti››

Heaven and hell

And here we go again! Another hate attack with a lot of people murdered. Please stop this madness. Let there be a heaven for all these victims and let the guilty ones go to h-ll.

Art again by my late mother Gunvor, from my stable here in Sweden. Love not hate, peace not terror and war! Be safe out there, from Turkey to the rest of the world!

Happy Midsummer!

It is Midsummer today in Sweden. So big party in the sun, or not:) It is actually raining here outside Uppsala just now in the morning.

But it will get better later on, so they say. Have a happy day, in Sweden or elsewhere!!

Pictures of summer

Here are some pictures from the summer of 2016. It is not over yet, so I will bring you more late on.

First is a pic of two very sweet horses, love them!

Here you have a pic of my roses outside my house here in Sweden.

...and some wild flowers.

My new blog

I have just started up a blog in Swedish, all about my travel and old and new trips around the world and home. Hope you will check it out, even if it is in my native language.

Here it is, it is called Nisbeths resblogg. Have not written so much just yet, but the text are longer and more detailed here. Hope you like it!

You find it here››

Love not hate!

Not again! You can just dream of a better world, but that is just not the case just now. Unfortunally.

Hope you all are safe out there, peace and love!! Not hate and terror.
And to all the helping and loving angels out there, thank you! My thougths are with you in Orlando.

National Day today

Hope you all have a happy day today. We have our National Day today in Sweden, and we have a nice sunny day here outside Uppsala.

It is was also called Swedish Flag day. Here is our flag. Have a nice day, we will... :)

Signs of spring and summer

Finally! Now the winter has really gone away - it is spring or maybe could I say summer! It is warm and sunny outside and all different signs of warmer days has shown.

Here you have some lilacs from my garden, so lovely and what a perfume!

This is my apple tree garden, all flowery and lovely.

And a pic showing a close up at one of all the apple trees we have here, love apple blossoms.

Love my table by Frédéric Iriarte

Is this fun or what!?
Have this colorful coffee table in my livingroom now, just between my sofas, do you like it as much as I do?

It is really fun and colorful. Made in wood, and with a glass top, by French artist Frederic Iriarte, now living here in Sweden. A bit of Pop Art, maybe?

Read more about him here››

I just can't help myself...

I know, the spring is here. So I should be happy that is getting warmer, but I still miss my beautiful Thailand!

So here are some reminders from my last trip there, this time we flew to Krabi and Ao Nang and Klong Muang beach.

A pic from the amazing pool at our hotel Sofitel Krabi.

The boats like this you can see every where. Ready to sail out in the clear warm blue sea.

The beach just outside the hotel Sofitel Phokeethra. Amazing clear water.

And this in one early morning in Klong Muang. Read more about my story here:
Relax in Klong Muang››