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Our guests arrived in sporty ski outfit, they already finished their first sprint distance. Furudal proved it can host more than ice-hockey events, it’s a fun place for competitions and activities like the Swedish Mastership ski-orienteering as well. Ski Orienteering is an endurance winter sport combining navigation and cross-country skiing across a rough terrain using prepared cross-country ski tracks. It’s time-measured and objective, the fastest time wins. An electronic card verifies that the athlete has visited all control points in […]

Finished again: our first short two days of ”cold wave” in 2017. -30℃ last night, about -26℃ during the daytime. That is pretty harsh if you are not used to it, and when you are used to it it’s harsh because the temperature goes up and down to extremes so quickly this year. From plus 5 degrees last week, to minus 30℃ last night to -3℃ today. Such a cold wave is pretty normal in January, but normally it comes […]

Mix and match your own winterfun, that is what we promote. It’s because we really believe that mixing makes everyone in your family (or friends) happy and satisfied. Today we started our winter fun season mix and match with: ice-skating on Rädsjön at Orsa Grönklitt. And it was the best thing to choose! We got into the car at 11:00 in the morning and arrived at 12:00 at the parking place near the entrance of the cross country part. Rädsjön […]

A quiet hysterical Christmas exhibition in the spirit of recycling. This description sounds intriguing and so full of contradictions that I simply had to see it  when I was in Leksand to visit the Christmas market with my penpal Lizzy. I especially like the word HYSTERICAL. In fact, this is never something we feel when we experience a Swedish Christmas. Christmas here is cozy and very traditional, but mostly not different. To our surprise, the title says it all. It […]

Winter has arrived! It snowed and it’s freezing. As always since we live in Sweden: it’s happening again: snow fever.  Where are my (Mireille) ice skates or cross-country skies I want to get out! Well, too early for ice skating, but  the first cross-country trails are open. Just in time to have a real technique training  by Tynell Activity  in Falun just before the real winter starts. Well,  I tried my skies several times on the lake and in the […]

A cozy and spacious house, a retreat from the world!  A fireplace, lots of candles, a well equipped kitchen, a nice breakfast, boardgames, books, magazines, books and movies, nice beds and lots of forest. All these make you feel hygge (hue-gah). Hygge is the Danish ritual of enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Friends. Family. Graciousness. Contentment. Good feelings. A warm glow. It’s  a feeling or mood that comes taking genuine pleasure in making ordinary, every day things more meaningful, beautiful or […]