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The day has come 🛫

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Goodmorning my loves! I hope you all are doing good!

I am going back to Sweden. I have so many photos to show you all from my trip here to Venezia (Venice), Italy!

I dont know how many pictures I have taken but it has been a “few” haha.

I’m currently sitting at the airport, waiting to check in my suitcase. The flight leaves at 9.20am and I still havent slept. I have been up for 24h now. “But Emma, why haven’t you slept til you were going to the airport?” Honestly, I have been afraid. I set like 10 alarms and I still dont wake up so I decided to stay awake the whole night so I wouldn’t miss the airport bus to go to the airport 🥴 that would be typical me.

(click on the pictures to see bigger and full size picture)

White socks and a dirty airport isn’t a goos combination.  Yes I actually took my shoes off. My feets are killing me due to I walked from the other side of the Venice to get to the bus station yesterday, plus walking around like an idiot now to find the right place to where I check in.

I will keep edit some more pictures and I will make posts about each day i have been here. If I remember it all.. Crash/accident – Venice like 50 times – a little bit shopping – travel etc. Stay tuned.

Much love, and please.. Pray for me. Im dead scared and I hate going on planes.

Buon pomeriggio miei amori

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(quick Google translator – good afternoon my loves. I dont know if it translated correctly though)

I’m on the way to Murano to change boat to go to Burano which has been a goal of mine for this trip. I leave tomorrow so lets go!

It’s raining though but as a photographer of landscape etc its the perfect weather. No harsh lights from the sun or so. Perfect.

I will post photos i have taken on my trip here. I dont know honestly how many photos I have taken but unfortunately I have taken most of them with my phone. The heat has shut down my cameras so many time due to overheating so I’m not risking it.

Anyway, I will blog later. 1h boat ride to Murano ans then we have to wait a bit to go to Burano. Iam so excited for the colorful houses! Ohmygod iam so happy and so excited!

Let’s go!

Story behind my nickname.

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What’s the story behind your nickname?

Well honestly, I have had a lot of nicknames in my days but here on the blog I use my real name except Santorini. Reason why I have Santorini is because it has been a dream location for me to visit and one day im going there. Iam determined.

I also like the name “Santorini”.

whats your story behind your name?

Future travel plans?

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What are your future travel plans?

How funny that this Daily Prompt thing comes up while iam in Italy. I thought i would answer it. Hopefully you want to comment and tell me your future travel plans, would love to read.

Venice was a spontaneous location to travel to but honestly, I really wanted to go to Santorini, Mykanos (both in Greece) but I also want to go to Spain, Turkey, Dubai, Egypt, Bali, Vietnam and Thailand.

Iam that kind of person who dont want to go on travels just to lay on the beach. I want to explore, see things but actually not the typical “tourist” stuff.

Like now in Italy, I dont go to typical tourist places, I go on alleys, look at old buildings etc. That’s what I like to do. Are you the same or do you prefer relaxing on the beach?

Shopping is also some stuff I do. I actually have started to collect magnets since I was in The Netherlands. So today im on a hunt for a magnet that represent Venice / Venezia. How fun!

My feets hurts and 2K+ photos later

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Hey guys! I’m sorry I have been low on updating the blog for the past days. I have been on my feets pretty much the entire time to see everything and take pictures!

Saturday when I arrived, I wasn’t able to check in until 2pm and I was here at 9am ish. So I got to store my bags etc in their closet and off I went to explore.

At first I was super excited to go to the city of Vemice (Venezia). I was so happy and ready to see all the romance people has talked about, the gondolas etc.

these pictures I took on my way to the hotel. Below you can see the pictures I took from Venezia.

V e n e z i a

I will post more photos so stay tuned.

Last minute shopping!

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Hello my beautiful sunflowers 🌻 💛

I hope you all are good and have a beautiful day /evening or evening night!

Yesterday was a little bit stressful for me. I had to go to the town to buy last minute things while I have been packing over and over again. Wow. Even managed to get my packages i ordered. Clothes etc.

Mini locks for my backpack and travel bag. New water bottle (I saw they had a purple one so I grabbed that one instead of the black/Grey one), some bandages,  deodorant,  new tooth brush and toothpaste. I also bought metallic rings to keep all the keys and extra locks on that I will take with me.

I now give up on packing.. I dont know how many  times I’ve been repacking everything but hopefully im done.. If I forgot something back home, I can buy there.

Train tickets, one of the stress for this trip.. okey so I bought train tickets that would leave 10.45pm from where I live and be at the airport at 4.35am and the plane leaves at 6am. I thought it was good amount of time to check in etc but after checking the airlines recommendations, I felt panic! ohmygod. So I ended up buying new train tickets which will make me stay at the airport 8h before flight. What am I gonna do? everything will be closed. No food place to eat, no drinks etc. So before I go today I must buy something I can have and eat while waiting.

I have also packed my camera gears including the tripod. Hopefully they dont take it as a weapon or so. that would be awful! It’s just a tripod!? That can’t make something bad?

Solo travel .. yes im going alone so I am super nervous. I will need to handle the locations etc by myself and we all know how me and.locations are. Not goos but lets see.

I’m gonna try relax and maybe take a quick nap so I have some energy to stay awake tonight. It’s scary to be at the airport plus.. no where to sleep.

I’ll blog later when im either on my way down or when im there and everything..

Sweden Golden Gate Bridge

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So the other day we went to the Golden Gate Bridge of Sweden. A beautiful location in my opinion but my man didn’t find it so fun.

it might be as “flashy” as the GGB but atleast its similar to it.

The drive was just about two hours which is okey.  We were bored at home so I came up with the idea to go here because M has never seen it before and I wanted to share a moment with E.

one thing iam kinda “disappointed ” about this location is the view of the surroundings.  Lol. I know i know “Emma, they can’t control the nature”.

Sadly I couldn’t take photos from different angles or from different point of view.

●● Now I have a countdown and alot to do! Iam going to Italy – ALONE! Scary! Iam very excited but also kinda nervous and scared. I will take a lot of photos ofcourse and I will blog if I find internet to keep you guys updated and come along with me on this trip! Woho!

Adventure plans? Phobias?

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Goodmorning / goodafternoon / good evening my beautiful sunflowers! I hope you all are doing well today! I’m fine, just tired. Had nightmare last night mixed with migraine.

The nightmare was about (this actually happened irl) the carlane we were in for 4 hours and what we saw when passing it. There was a massive accident that had happen and as we drove by it, we saw the front of the car to windshield was under a truck and beside that car was a body bag with a person in. So I had flashbacks to that. Scary situation but im glad E didn’t see it. I have actually never seen a body bag before irl.. And I have worked at hospital and seniors homes.. it was scary.

Anyway, enough about that flashback. We are currently on our way to do some adventure. We spoke about going to the Sweden’s “Golden Gate Bridge” but I dont know anymore. We’ll see what happens.

I have been to that bridge once in my life and I cried and had panic the whole way over. I am very scared and have phobias for bridges. How i got that phobia? When I was younger I saw a clip, I dont know if it was from a news station in America or someone had recorded it, of the Golden Gate Bridge (or maybe an other Bridge that looked similar) how the storm was making it swing back and forth and the road up and down. I think I was five when I saw that and that phobia has been stuck ever since. So going over bridges now and especially with my son with me, I have to stay calm even though I have panic inside of me.

Do you have any phobias?

So we’ll see how this goes if we go there. If we go there I’ll take pictures ofcourse. It’s very beautiful there. Nature, water and the bridge. Mind blowing how people can build something like that! I dont understand how to be honest but again, im not a person who works with that.

I will blog later. I’m gonna try become more active here.

Scandinavian animals and birds

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Yesterday, the family and I went to a “zoo” about 2hours from where we live. It was a very disappointment . First of all, the price! $100 for us three to walk there. 2. Barely no animals and 3. The animals being captured.

One thing I hate is that animals at locked up and not able to roam freely and what made me very upset is how tiny the “cages” are from the birds/owls. Ohmy god.

It rained a lot yesterday and I was not happy about it. My camera got all wet so I had to protect it as much as possible, there for no good photos. I used my phone to snap photos of the animals. After the visit to the “zoo” I almost cried. The “cages” were super small. The wolves barely had room. The owls were.. well let me just say, all the animals looked sad.

Except this little fella who were eating the food the elks / moose had. Cute little squirrel.

Few pictures from the “zoo”.

They even made some courses etc all around the “zoo” for “fairies” etc. That was super cute to see and I loved it. The only part of this place I actually liked.

Such a cure little way to make the place ✨️ magical ✨️ for children. They also had plywood pieces around on trees with different animals and bugs. Don’t really know what for but I think its probably for the children as well.

The plans are changed and iam very upset about it

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Goodmorning guys as you might know we were going to Switzerland but the plans got changed yesterday. We actually left home but only got to Gothenburg and due to some reasons we are on our way home again. Honestly, iam very upset about it because I actually was looking forward all the photographies to take, make memories with my son etc. But unfortunately we will stay home and hopefully find something to do instead.

Atleast we got one night at the hotel which was fun. E loved it and slept like a knocked out bull. This morning we had to wake up super super early and im struggling so hard with not fall asleep in the car.

We are currently stuck in carlane due to an accident. Been here for an hour or so. Ambulance helicopter landed on the highway and several ambulances plus police cars has passed so I dont know for how much longer we gonna be stuck in the car lane.

I have no more photos to show at the moment and nothing crazy has really happened so I will end the short post here and I wanna wish you all a fantastic day!