Saturday, December 28, 2013

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. 

Friday, December 20, 2013

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