In celebration of my 28th birthday we decided that a spontaneous weekend away to a brand new destination would be a fitting celebration….

The lead-up to a northern-hemisphere Christmas is something splendid to behold. While I did miss that end-of-the-year-winding-down-for-a-…

Week 44 of the Swedish year is Hostlöv. It is the mid-Autumn break for schools, and most people with children choose to take a few days…

Yet another conference, this time hosted by the University of Sussex, meant my first ever visit to the UK. Having lived in Sweden for 3…

September was a blur. It seems odd that since moving to Sweden, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my time outside of Sweden. This was…

It’s been nearly a full month since we first arrived in Sweden! In no time at all our new apartment has started to fell like home (aided…

No, I’m not the crying baby. But I am a nervous traveler at the best of times, so the prospect of being turned away at the immigration…

Despite all my careful planning, the move was unavoidably chaotic. If it hadn’t have been for the willingness of the family to help out,…

Who knew that so much joy could be garnered from de-cluttering your home?! I’ve always been a bit of a neat freak, but the looming move…

Of course moving abroad was never going to be a straightforward process. A whopping four months after our initial visa application, we…

It all started about a year ago with a casual conversation about the future. My (seemingly never-ending) studies were quickly coming to…