Archive for the ‘Cruises’ Category

Swedish American Line Marked Vintage Suitcase

November 18th, 2011 at 7:22 pm » Comments (1)

A Swedish vintage suitcase marked with Swedish American Line Gripsholm, which cruised from 1925 to 1954. What a sight - found at a vintage store near Stockholm this autumn.

From what year we couldn’t tell unfortunately. If I had any space left at home I would have bought it. As the travel freak I am, I [...]

Stockholm Archipelago Boats

October 31st, 2011 at 9:00 pm » Comments (1)

Stockholm is known as the Northern Venice because of the all the water around the city, but it also has a lot of wonderful boat tours out in the surrounding archipelago.

Two of those boats are Waxholm III named after a small town in the archipelago and Gustaf III which is named after a Swedish [...]

Ship Deck Passenger Paintings

October 6th, 2011 at 11:24 pm » Comments (4)

What kind of paintings have true travelers hanging on the home walls? Yes, travel related paintings like those two ship deck passengers - it could have been us two…

Those two paintings are hanging on our bedroom wall, above our desks where we have our computers, so when at home not traveling we can look at [...]