Evrim & Igor in Sweden

Almost there

Hi there! We’ve been living in our (soon to be) guesthouse for the past two weeks now! Apart from a Covid infection for both of us we’ve been loving every minute of it. The guesthouse itself is very well built and only a couple of years old. In fact, it...

We bought two houses!

Great news! After two and a half months in Sweden we’ve found our dream home. Even better, we’ve found our dream homes! We bought a piece of land in Blekinge, near Ronneby, with two houses on it: a house for us and one for the guests. The place feels like...

Yes, we’ve been a bit silent…

It’s been a little while since our last post. In this case it was a good sign, cause we were quite busy with our househunt. Actually, the view below might just become our everyday scenery… Expect more news any time...

Happy new year!

We hope you all had a nice Christmas holiday and wish you all the best in 2025! Our days were quiet and peaceful, with lots of nice walks and of course some very good food 🙂 And Twinkle (our little Spanish dog) had her most relaxed New Year’s Eve in years! The...

Our progress…

Six weeks have passed since we moved here, time flies! Did we make any progress in our quest? Well, to buy a house we need a Swedish bankaccount, because of all the recent money laundering scandals in the world. Even worse: to bid on a house we would need BankID, a...

Dark days

Yes, we were warned by Evrim’s Swedish colleagues: November and December would be the worst time to be in Sweden and Skåne. Dark and gloomy days! Well, actually it is dark early around here… The total daylight time is only about half an hour less than in...