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June 25, 2018

Visiting Oslo: Free Things to Do

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June 18, 2018

Oslo: Getting to the City from the Airport

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August 18, 2016June 16, 2018

Guide to Cape Town

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August 17, 2016

Bangkok: Gaggan, #23 World’s Best Restaurant

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August 6, 2016

Cape Town: The Test Kitchen

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July 4, 2016

Paragliding in Cape Town, SA

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May 31, 2016

Round-the-World Trip

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September 2, 2015

On the Refugee Crisis in Europe

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Lima: Museo Larco

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What does your culture do to celebrate the birth of a new child? I’m not having a baby shower, and I’m honestly a little sad about that. Like most American customs, this has started to infiltrate Norway, but they’re not really common here yet. The timing hasn’t really been right anyway because I’m having my babe right after summer when everyone has been gone on vacation. Also, I’m not convinced that baby showers should just be for women. Is this baby not also my husband’s? I also have close male friends I’d want to invite. With my husband working every other weekend, and us still working on renovating our house, it just doesn’t work. So I guess we will get on board with Norwegian culture and have a navnefest (name party? 😝). This is basically a party you have after the baby is already born if you’re not religious and a baptism doesn’t feel right. Some people even get the Humanists to make a ceremony, but that seems a bit much to me, so we will probably opt for a more casual party at our house. p.s. When my friend’s dad left the wheelbarrow in front of the red barn door, I was like perfect farm pic. Although I’m clearly not dressed for farm work, I’m growing a baby, so that counts! 😝 ———————————————————————— #visitnorway #unlimitedscandinavia #ilovenorway #norge #ourwayisnorway #vibrantnorway #norgefoto #norwaysworld #bestofnorway #destinorway #norway #girlsmeetglobe #citizenfemme #sheisnotlost #womenwhoexplore #girlsborntotravel #shetravels #femaletravelbloggers #globelletravels #girlsthatwander #travelgirls
You can take the girl out of Florida, but you can’t keep the Florida girl away from the oranges! 🍊🍊 This cute little cafe is in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. Good reviews on TripAdvisor too. 😊 I sort of obsessively look at TripAdvisor reviews to make sure I’m not going to a bad place, especially for expensive dinners, but sometimes the good ones are ones I just stumble across. Do you read reviews, get recommendations from people, or just wing it?? —————————————————————— #gamlastan #stockholm #sthlm #stockholm_insta #visitstockholm #stockholmsweden #lovesweden #exploresweden #girlsmeetglobe #citizenfemme #sheisnotlost #womenwhoexplore #girlsborntotravel #shetravels #femaletravelbloggers #globelletravels #girlsthatwander #travelgirls #cafeschweizer #tripadvisor
I’m bringing back Twirling Tuesday! Hope you’re all enjoying the last weeks of summer. This was taken in Stockholm 6-7 weeks ago. It was definitely a bit of a struggle to travel and sightsee while pregnant, but I was able to get through it. I could even wear sneakers then! At this point I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to do it. Sometimes it can be really difficult to walk with the pelvic pain, etc. But on the plus side, pregnancy makes your nails stronger and grow faster, so I’ve enjoyed that! Also I barely shed. I used to leave Jackson Pollock paintings in the shower when I washed my hair, but now none of it comes out. So there’s that. 😂🤰🏻 ———————————————————————— #drottingholm #stockholm #sthlm #stockholm_insta #visitstockholm #stockholmsweden #lovesweden #exploresweden #girlsmeetglobe #citizenfemme #sheisnotlost #womenwhoexplore #girlsborntotravel #shetravels #femaletravelbloggers #globelletravels #girlsthatwander #travelgirls
Let me explain what is happening in this picture and teach you about something you’ve probably never heard about before! For our Norwegian fjord wedding, I researched some Viking wedding traditions we could incorporate. We aren’t religious, so we wanted something interesting and different to include that fit the location and my Norwegian heritage. Some of it, like animal sacrifices, had to be ruled out immediately, lol. The tradition we are doing here is Thor’s hammer ceremony. My husband is a sculptor, so he made the hammer, Mjölnir, and we had my brother carry it in the procession. It is a fertility ceremony in which the husband places the hammer in the wife’s lap (haha yes the symbolism). Then we had my father say the toast to Thor from the Poetic Edda: «Bær inn hammeren, bruden skal vigsles, legg nå Mjolne i møtast fang, la oss vigsles med Vårs hender.» Then we all toasted to Thor. So here’s the interesting thing...I got pregnant on the first try. Was it because the fertility ceremony worked, and Thor was looking out for us? Hmmmm 😉🤔 p.s. We made the bunting hanging behind us ourselves and now we are going to reuse it in our daughter’s room. 😊 ———————————————————— #mjolnir #mjölnir #thorshammer #thor #vikings #vikingwedding #norsemythology #nordiskebryllup #wayupnorth #weddinginspo #destinationweddings #theknot #weddingwire #junebugweddings #bryllup #wedding #nontraditionalwedding
It was so nice shooting with Mona again yesterday! I can’t wait to see the preggy pics, but I’m sharing another one she took at our wedding. I’ve always been a bit obsessed with documentation via journals and pictures, and now I think it will be especially nice for Alice to have all these moments. 💜 The journal in this pic is a collaboration between Rurik and me from our trip around the world. He used watercolors to make little paintings and I wrote the words. 😊 We are a good team like that. Yesterday’s pic had a 1950s vibe, but in this one, we have gone much further back. I feel like this has a late 1800s feel to it! That’s because we chose a classic fjord hotel to have our wedding at and this is what the bridal suite looks like. P.S. this is the only time during the wedding that I wore the faux fur stole. I thought it could be cold in the fjords, but for our wedding it was super warm and sunny! ——————————————————— #nordiskebryllup #wayupnorth #weddinginspo #destinationweddings #theknot #weddingwire #junebugweddings #bryllup #wedding
Normally, my feed is pretty colorful, but I had to make an exception for this lovely shot @monamoe_com took of me getting ready for my wedding. It’s one of my favorites! 💜 It makes me feel like a classic movie star ⭐️ 😊 And today I will be shooting with her again! This time we will be taking some pregnancy shots.🤰🏻Looking forward to sharing them with you. 😊 ———————————————————— #nordiskebryllup #wayupnorth #weddinginspo #destinationweddings #theknot #weddingwire #junebugweddings #bryllup #wedding #portraitphotography #gettingreadyforwedding
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