15 THINGS WE LEARNED IN THE TRAVELING YEAR OF 2016

When we decided not to start university right away, we knew we still had a lot of knowledge coming our way. In the three years that has passed since school, we've learned more about ourselves and the world we live in that we could have in any geography lesson or therapy session.

We made a few discoveries and even more mistakes, and when we sat down to summarize this year, it was quite clear which bigger, and smaller, things that impacted most on us.

And now we want to share this with you, good people that we are, so you don't need to do quite as many mistakes as we did this year, but also to give you a shortcut on amazing things that you can learn about your own abilities while traveling.

Read and be aghast. Or amazed. And leave a comment in the section below.

WE ARE MAKEOVERED!

"7000... what?"

"...Sure I can write it down...."

_____________________

Oh god were we tired of that.
Trying to brand when you barely remember your own blog name?
Not our best idea...

SO NOW we're still two idiots on the road and I don't think any amount of traveling will change that, but our blog name is officially

- SUITCASEPACKING -

...!!!

LISEBERG CHRISTMAS MARKET

Fake snow in heaps, snowmen on parade and a fantastic tale on ice. 

We grew up today,

bought blue cheeses for hundreds of kronor

and drank glüweihn without having to show ID.

Christmas at Liseberg has been a part our holiday celebration since it opened 2001. 

It's the perfect place to go for afterworks, gift shopping, getting full on free samples... 

It's also quite romatic, if you're into that.

CAFÉ REVIEW: SeaCup Café

"I know a place by the sea", 

Victoria said to me regarding the friday-fika we'd planned, 

and I was immediately intrigued. 

Both because she'd brought me to great places before, 

but also for being in Eriksberg again. 

I've spent many picture-perfect summer afternoons 

strolling the quayside by some of the most expensive appartments in Gothenburg. 

So the mood was set, but did it end up as good as we hoped?

Will I trust Victoria to find us a place for four-hours of gossip and coffee again? 

READ ON AND YOU'LL SEE... 

FAVORITE SPOTS IN ASIA - AND WORST....

For Sofie 
en voor Lovisa,

who are also suffering from 
being-stuck-in-Sweden-when-
you-want-to-explore-the-world 
-aches

SOULFUL SEOUL - A photo essay by Jonas & Julia

Earlier this fall, Julia's boyfriend Jonas went to South Korea to study korean. 

Julia sure is Felicia's sister and therefor seized the opportunity to visit him during the end of his studies. 

Felicia and Jonathan seized the opportunity to get their hands on some asian pictures since the traveling aches was starting to get to them.

And also because we love the idea of spreading traveling inspiration and tips even for places we are yet to visit. 

We want to be a place on the internet where you go to get tips and inspiration for your next trip for as many places as possible, as well as the place to go and take a minivacation and be amuzed when everyday life isn't that exciting.

Look at the pictures, read the cations and escape to hypermodern yet traditional Seoul for a while... 

WHAT TO EAT IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

When you can't travel yourself,
you drool over somebody else's traveling pictures... 

ON THE TOP OF TIANMEN MOUNTAIN, CHINA

Our problem is our ambitions being too high sometimes.
For this post we originally wanted to do a whole guide with prices, tips, maps for this day of ours on Tianmen mountain  - Tianmen means heaven in Chinese - in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province in China.

But then time goes so so fast and editing photos is a betch and we were back in Sweden again, back to 9-5 and laundry times and trying to keep floating. And our fenomenal advice and anekdotes from the day were left in the fog on the hill tops.

But you know what? We have to remind ourselves that Something... not quite what we had in mind is still better than Nothing at all.
So here it goes. This are our best pictures from the day when we knocked on heaven's door.

SOMEWHERE IN STOCKHOLM

"I'm from a place where we never, openly show our emotions

We drown our sorrows in bottomless bottles and leave them to float in the ocean

I'm from a place where we never, separate people from people

Some generalize, but in general I still believe that we are treated as equals"

"Somewhere in Stockholm"
by Avicii

MOVING ON - ABOUT ASIA, NEXT TIME AROUND

The world is big and bold and waiting right there, but for now, other, less adventerous things has to claim its place in our lives too.

Since Felicia came home from North America, a lot of exiting thing have happened in Sweden for us. Jonathan has started a new job at Volvo and Felicia works for a daycare until Christmas. With a 9-5 lifestyle for the first time in our grown-up lives, the cameralens starts to focus on other things and before we knew it, we had found an appartment.

It all happened very fast. A tuesday in september, Felicia was home sick searching for places to stay. Within half an hour the phone rang. "Do you want to come look at a place, like, tonight?" the voice on the phone said and off we went, feverish and all.

We got to see the appartment and decided there on the spot that we wanted it. The very same weekend we started to ship stuff there and by sunday night, we were all done.