First couple of days in Curacao

So finally the point came that we took off on our Winter vacation to the heat. Winter in Sweden has only consisted of rain, rain, rain and even more rain. 

The destination for this years vacation is curacao, bonaire and aruba and final Miami for some shopping before heading over to Sweden. 

Getting to Curacao I was surprised of how easy the whole trip went. Total of 13 hours from Gothenburg With KLM. They had a direct flight from Amsterdam which only took 9 something hours. Perfect! 

We got here on thursday but were to tired from travelling so we went out for bite to eat after we had gotten to the hotel. Plein cafe it was called, good enough food at good enough pricesand good service.  

Yesterday we walked around abit in Willemstad, a very colourful Old town. We had a bit of bad luck choosing our restaurants yesterday. Endes up on the Punda side of Willemstad at a restaurant very close to the Queen bridge which could not do a very good ceasar sallad. 

We visited Willemstads floating market, but after seeing the one in Bangkok you can't really say that this was a

Floating one just that the products were brought in on boats from Venezuela. 

Dinner yesterday was a great dissappointment we visited a restaurant we were rekommendera by both the hotel and lonely planet mentioned it in our carribean book. Gouverneur it was called, do not go here. I ordered red snapper and it was as dry as toothpics. The service was bad bad slow. Plus i recon that the food was very overpriced compared to the quality of the food you got.

After Willemstad we headed to the beach for som relaxation. 

Today we headed to a nice beach called daaibooi, I can't remember seeing water that turqoise ever before. 

 We stopped at on Old salt marsh and saw a couple of flamingos really hope to see more of that on bonaire. 

Dinner today we ate at Pirate bay at piscadera, Right where we live. It was perfect, the service was great and the food aswell. 

I'll update With more pictures soon. 

Malmö and Copenhagen

A bit to late but here's an update from the first weekend in december in Malmö and Copenhagen. Emma and I went down to visit our friends in Malmö, with the intention to visit the christmas market at tivoli in copenhagen. The weekend was a success.

We started the weekend friday evening with dinner att köttbaren. A nice meat restaurant in Malmö. I recommend it.

Decorated hotel at Kongens Nytorv

The girls at Torvehallerna

Saturday morning we headed over to Copenhagen and started our day at torvehallerna where I bought some flower and some goodies:) We continued walking around Copenhagen heading to Nyhavn and looked for a place for lunch.  Then some shopping along Ströget.

Lighted trees at Tivoli

Donuts and Hot Chocalate at Tivoli

After some shopping we headed to Tivoli. We walked around the christmas market, I bought alot of Christmas tree decorations:) At tivoli you can have alot of goodstuff; Hot chocolate which you can spice up with some alcohol, and Glüwine or Glögg.

When we were done with Tivoli we had dinner at Cofoco. Earlier this year I had dinner at Höst in Copenhagen and this restaurant has the same ownership as Cofoco. The style of food was similar. You order in a couple of different plates of smaller courser. Almost like tapas but not for sharing. They change menu every season/month so don't expect getting the same food as we did:)

Duck with Beetroot at Cofoco

Beef at Cofoco

Me and my treats:)

Fried chicken with Celeriac at Cofoco

Me and Anna at Cofoco

Emma and Lina

The girls at Tivoli

Tivoli

London 4th time this year

So the weekend 18th-21st October I visited London again. The main reason was to see John mayer at O2 arena, I'm such a fan. But ofcourse we had time to do usual London stuff like great dinner and shopping:)

Friday we arrived pretty late so we just had a quick bite to eat. After that we headed to Trailer Happiness a cocktail bar in a basement on a corner on portobello road. It's sort of styled as a 70's bar.
http://www.trailerhappiness.com/

Saturday we deticated to shopping and a stroll through Hyde park.

The evening we ate an awesome dinner at a restaurant on Brick Lane, "Back in 5 minutes". It's a very small restaurant so I recommend you book a table ahead. Plus you have to pass through a clothes shop called Ante to reach it.
http://www.disappearingdiningclub.co.uk/
Had a 3 course dinner, all of us started out with smoked duck as an appitizer, herb crusted salmon as a main. For deserts all of us chose different I had a brownie with popcorn parfait, it was so good. We also did a bar round on Curtain Road in shoreditch. I really like going out in the shoreditch area. Headed to Ninetyeight lounge which I also visited last time I was over.

Smoked Duck

Herb Crusted Salmon

Brownie with popcorn parfait

All of us at the restaurant

The restaurant

Berry crumble with vanilla custard

The main event of the weekend on sunday evening, the John Mayer concert, did not let me down. All my favorite songs stacked on to each other in a for me magical concert. John Mayer never lets me down. Just wish I had more vacation days to head over to the states for his US tour;)

Next trip won't be until 7 weeks from now, will then be heading to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Miami, I can't wait. So until then I might not post that much or do a post a Gothenburg instead:). See ya later.

A post from Gothenburg

Paleta (Pizza)

So I haven't been on a trip for a couple of weeks now so I thought I would do a post from Gothenburg. We visited a quite new restaurant in Gothenburg calles Barabicu. http://barabicu.se/

They describe themselves as a Pan American Grill. I would agree. Would say the pizza we had for starters was the best of the evening. 

Really recommend a visit to this restaurant. But you need to book in advance.

Hurricane Cocktail

Interior of Barabicu

London for the third time this year

So I was over to the UK for work last week, me and two colleagues stayed over in London for the weekend. The weekend consisted of shopping and eating basically.

Starters at Gilgamesh

Me and the drink I never had time to finish:)

We started the weekend of with a visit to Gilgamesh in Camden where we had a set menu. I have really started to appreciate ordering set menus cause I try food which I would regularly never have ordered in my self. Gilgamesh is what I would call London's Buddakhan, which was a awesome asian restaurant in NYC and one I really enjoyed. I would say I like the decor and overall atmosphere better at Gilgamesh though they did serve the food a bit fast would have liked to be able to have time to enjoy my drink in between courses:) After Gilgamesh we ran between pubs, the rain as pouring down.


Before heading back to the hotel we ended up at a pub called The worlds end, probably a tourist pub, you would think it's small from the outside but it really opens up and is huge, an alright selection of beers.










Saturday we spent shopping. For lunch we headed to borough market. A bit crowded but I love all the food you can find there, ate a raclette, consisting of potatoes covered in cheese.

Damien Hirst installation at Tramshed

The evening we spent in the hoxton area, had dinner at Tramshed, basically chicken and steak was lovely though. The truly amazing part of the dinner was the salted caramel fondue type of desert in which you dipped donuts and marshmallows, SO GOOD! The tramshed has an installtion of Damien Hirst, a cow in formaldehyde.

Desert at Tramshed, YUM!

After Tramshed we went to a cocktail bar, Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge. The decor was different, but in a cool way, can't really find the right words to describe it.

Freaky decor at Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge

Drinks at Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge

So will be back in London in less then 4 weeks, so until then I might do a post about my town instead:) Gothenburg that is.

Copenhagen this weekend that passed

So me and Andreas headed down to copenhagen this weekend to meet With some friends from Uk and Ireland. 

Me and Andreas had lunch at the food markets called Torvehallerne. We ate at a tapas place With Both hot and cold mor sandwich like tapas. Very good:)

I bought some Cream buns from a place at the market called summer bird. They had some different tastes then the usual chocolate one. I bought licorice taste and passion rosehip. 

Later in the evening we went to a restaurant called höst. I would call it danish food With a twist maybe.  We did a set menu With cod, pork belly and dessert:) to these dishes we also Got a cured salmon with smoked potatoes as and appetizer which was very good.

After dinner we visited two cocktail bars 1105 and ruby bar. Both the bars reminded me of the bars in NYC. A bit hidden or not so easy to find. Ruby bar was decorated as an apartment. The bests cocktails where at 1105 in My opinion atleast. 

We also went to Karriere later on which have cheap drinks until midnight. A cocktail for 65. Been there a couple of times it's in copenhagen's meatpacking district (ködbyen). Usually a could party but the people start droping in around midnight aswell. 

Next trip is next weekend to London. More updates then:)

The last days in NYC

Union Square

View from Top of the Rock

So the internet at the hotel didn't work so well the last couple of days in NYC, so here's a summary of the last three days of the trip. It turned out to be a long post but I hope you read it:)

The day my mother inlaw turned 60 didn't end at Bathtub Gin. Me and Amanda continued to Marie Crisis (http://www.yelp.com/biz/maries-crisis-new-york) . Don't really know how to explain this place. It's a bit rough on the eyes, but if you like broadway and like singing you'll love this place. There is a pianist who plays showtunes and everyone sings. I ended up singing Anthem from the musical Chess. Was so nervous so my heart almost jumped out of my chest. Haven't really sung infront of an audience or anyone who will listen in a while. We stayed there for an hour or so, before we continued to another bar the duplex (http://www.theduplex.com/site/) . Stayed for about an hour there aswell, but it couldn't compare to Marie Crisis. It wasn't a bad bar, a guy by a piano singing was the music for the first floor.

 The day after we went to a broadway show, Phantom of the Opera. Not my first choice of musical, but my mother inlaw really wanted to see it because the most famous musical artist from Sweden acted in it. My review of this musical is that the female lead who played Christine ad a beautiful voice, but Peter Jöback the swedish guy couldn't really carry his part. He a very good singer, but not right for the part as the phantom.

Before we went home we also did Top of the Rock. If you are choosing between Top of the Rock or The Empire state to go up in choose Top of the Rock. You get an amazing view of the the empire state and central park.

Top of the Rock

Playing around at Toys 'r Us time square

So the restaurants we visited before heading back home to Sweden were:

Bocca di Bacco
A restaurant close to broadway, not crowded. Good if you haven't booked anything before a show. Good italian food but the concept wasn't anything special.



Todd's Mill
If this restaurant was situated in the UK I would call it a nicer pub. The food was alright nothing special. Very good desserts though.
La Esquina
This restaurant me and Emma visited last time around. It didn't dissapoint this time either, and was the most appreciated restaurant by the rest of thefamily. My favorite was Buddhakan cause I hadn't been there before.

Busy enjoying the food at La Esquina

Awsome corn at La Esquina

Bars we visited:

Backroom
A hidaway bar, http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-back-room-new-york. 

Randolph
http://randolphnyc.com/
A regular laid back bar.




 Gilligans
If the weather is nice I recommend this bar. It's outdoors. http://www.sohogrand.com/dining-nightlife/gilligans-at-sohogrand/

Outdoors bar / Gilligans

The Strand rooftop bar
If you want a bar with a view over the Empire State this is it. Nice cocktails.

The view from The Strand rooftop bar.

My mother inlaw turns 60

So today My mother inlaw turned 60. We started the day at Luxemburg cafe. Never had such a good breakfeast. Will update with pictures when I transfer My pictures from My camera. Ate a prosciutto egg sandwich so delicious. Downside was that they didnt serve alcohol until 12 so we couldnt start breakfeast With a bottle of champagne for My mother inlaw. 

After the breakfeast we did some strolling  in central park. Brought cupcakes from magnolia bakery as a birthday cake for the birthday. Continued walking to the met and then down to fifth avenue and did some shopping. 

We headed back to the hotel to rest our Feet before dinner. After that followes an impecable dinner at buddhakan. Such a nice restaurant awsome food. Pictures to follow here aswell soon. We did a tasting menu cause we were 7 it was easy and the food was so good. 

After dinner some of us continued to bathtub gin. Cocktails were not a dissappointment. When we came in, very lightly dressed Women was the first we saw. With tazzled breasts, very 20's burlesque. 

Sums up the day so far, lets see if I Have more to fill in with.

Woodbury

So today was dedicated to shopping at woodbury common premium outlets. I can really recommend this outlet, and going there now in August was awsome, sales everywhere. Me and the rest of the family really did bargain alot. We rented a car to get out there cause it was cheaper then the bus this time when we were 7 people. If you rent a car to get out there i recommend you do it on the weekend in order to avoid the heavy weekday trafik. You won't avoid the traffic in the bus during weekday either but atleast you're not the one driving then. 

We got home late and had a late dinner. Found an Italien restaurant close to out hotel. It was an the corner of duane street and Greenwich street and was called ROC. The pasta was good. Pictures to follow below. I had Oxtail ravioli. Not a big portion of food but it was good. Andreas had a good vegetarian lasagne.