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25 Oct 2016
halloween @Nasets Marcusgård

What to do during fall break? Explore spooky sites at the countryside @Näsets Marcusgård

Fall break: super boring? No, it’s super cool! If you know how and where to spend it. Walk, play, go out and explore! Fill your days with special fall-activities you’ll find all over the place during your break and then hygge in our Fähus or Hölada. From spooky activities in Siljans theme parks to an outdoor cinema, a campfire or exploring our autumn forests or if it’s raining cats and dogs, do experiments in a laboratory of the Falun mine, […]

14 Oct 2016
Hygge

Hygge, a way of living

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 […]

17 Sep 2016
Räksmörgås/prawn sandwich

Räksmörgås / prawn sandwich

Whenever we were on holiday here in Sweden and saw räksmörgås or räkmacka on the menu, we knew what to take: a prawn sandwich! It’s always delicious and easy to make, we discovered. It’s a great dish to surprise your guests with. We already made it for family and friends. It’s always fun to see how people are going to eat it! 4 prawn sandwiches About 1 kg peeled prawns 4 slices of white or brown bread 1 crisp salad […]

09 Sep 2016

Let’ go outside!

September: In the early morning, it’s cold and mysteriously foggy. During the daytime, it’s nice and warm. Leaves change colour, blueberries and lingonberries are everywhere, and huge mushrooms pop up. In the evening, the temperature drops to 2 degrees sometimes, and it’s time to light the fire. We love September. It’s also a busy month, in which we can and have to finish some things outside we couldn’t do when we had many guests. No problem in this fine weather. […]

03 Sep 2016
Zorngården Mora

Explore some art instead of nature

For some people there’s no holiday without some art. My cousin is such a person. So we went to the Zornmuseum in Mora. A nice little museum with beautiful paintings by Anders Zorn (1860-1920). Zorn is one of Sweden’s most famous artist, from Mora. No one has painted water, created portraits with the same bravoure and reproduced women as sensual as Zorn. You can see some reproductions of his work in the Hölada and Fähus. Unique and really different are […]

30 Aug 2016

A day at Näsets Marcusgård

A day at Näsets Marcusgård, through the eyes of Thijs Berkman our “handy man” who volunteered at us this summer. Thanks Thijs!

18 Aug 2016

A new school year, the kitchen garden and noodle-soup

What has the start of new school year, the kitchen garden and our favorite noodle-dish to do with each other? Well, the end of the summer: more time to spend in the garden, time to harvest and put it all in delicious meals. And the dish we are the most happy with, is our Chinese noodle dish (You can find the recipe under recipes to share)! For me as a ‘kitchen garden beginner’ it was real fun to find out […]

18 Aug 2016

Chinese noodles-soup

Our love for this special dish comes from our trip through China, already 12 years ago. Willem and I backpacked through Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China for some months. What a wonderful food experiences we had! When we returned home we bought a beautiful book full of Chinese recipes and tried some. Nowadays two recipes survived, and the one for noodles is our favorite. Unfortunately we still haven’t succeed to make the dish taste exactly like in China, but our recipe […]

04 Aug 2016
Treetent Nadia

What brings camping in our treetent to an Brazilian girl?

We brought our first Work Away to the train to her next destination. Mixed feelings: sad that she’s leaving but happy that this Brazilian girl goes on to her next adventure. Before coming here she wanted to hike and make pictures (since she is photographer), and of course helping us. Just what we needed, we wanted her to make pictures of Näsets Marcusgård and ourselves. We also had a secret mission: we wanted her to experience Sweden like Ronia the […]

25 Jul 2016

Adventurous Dutchies dare to go off road

Who dares to go off road: camp and make new paths in the beautiful wilderness near Furudal? Hanna and Atse from Holland wanted to hike in Sweden anyway and took up the challenge. Hanna has already some sweet memories of the Swedish forest, but Atse hiked more in the southern mountains like the Pyrenees. Last Saturday we picked them up from the train in Rättvik. They had an interesting trip, because they had landed on Stockholms Skavska airport instead of […]

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