Outside

I really wish we had a little garden and a place outside like this. After a long summer day this is great place to just enjoy the evening with friends and good food.

picture: sköna hem

Summer bed linen

One of the best things in summer is real linen- It's fresh and the best thing when nights are really warm during summer.

Picture: sköna hem

If you are in antique stores make sure to always check if this have linen, you can find beautiful one with monograms. I always think about how much time and love women have put into making these back in the old days. It is good to have things like these real good quality that you cannot buy anymore nowadays and I like the mix of old things and new design.

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Summer and Strawberries

Is there something more typically and more tasty than strawberries? In Sweden we almost had strawberries everyday, they taste so special up there and you can never stop eating them once you started. Even though you all know I like winter too, I can sometimes miss the variety of fruits and the light of course :)

Summer in Sweden

I told you the light is special in Sweden in summer... It is especially if you are in one of the various forests. The air is so fresh and the light gives everything this golden shimmer. For some listening to the sea and the waves rolling onto the beach is the most relaxing thing to do - for me it is in the forest being in the forest listing to the birds singing, seeing the light through the trees like in the forest around our house in Sweden:

Back from Sweden

I'm finally back in Munich from my trip to Sweden. Back from long days with a very special light, hering, sweet dark bread with salted butter, shopping in antiques shops and a very relaxing time! I'm going to share the things I saw over the next days :)

I'm always sad when I go back even though I also like living in Munich. I guess it would be the same if I lived in Sweden and would need to leave Munich. That's the feeling of being split between 2 countries and 2 cultures.

I look forward to show you everything and even more when my parents come back with the car and all the shopping I did ;)

Summer and Sweden here I come - Happy Midsummer!

I'm on my way to Sweden und Summer!

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I will be there for 10 days and will not be able to post a lot as we don't have internet in our little house in the middle of the woods. Which is bad and good at the same time as people from my work cannot reach me either ;)

So speak to you after my holidays in Sweden and...

GLAD MIDSOMMAR!

Picture: DSG

Sommar med Ernst 2016

The TV series I look forward to the most is Sommar med Ernst, that will finally start on July 14 at 8 pm CET in Swedish TV channel TV4. This house seems to be his new project for this summer. I really love this series as it is so cozy and has such great pictures. And often during Christmas ( as you all know my favorite time of the year) he returns to decorate for Christmas, so the best 2 seasons in 1 Tv Series :)

Picture Aftonbladet

These are pictures from former seasons of Sommar med Ernst.

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Picture TV 4

Gartensalon Schwabing

I went to a very nice breakfast place this morning, Gartensalon in Schwabing. It's a cozy place in a backyard of Schwabing in Amalienpassage with a lot of things to choose and a very nice atmosphere.

Copenhagen

End of June I will not only be in Sweden but also in Denmark in Copenhagen. I look so much forward to going there too. It's such a cozy city with these narrow streets and the long light days. Summer in Scandinavia is something special!

Picture: Süddeutsche

Frasera Ikea

Summer for me means smoothies and cocktails and in a nice glass they taste even better. :) A beautiful glas is the Frasera whiskey glas from Ikea. 

Tiny balcony

The only thing I'm really missing is a garden or a balcony. In my first apartment I had a square meter which back then I planted  a lot of plants and flowers on to make it look like a tiny garden. My sister has a tiny balcony and I helped her to plant some flowers today and we found this wonderful green table in a shop just around the corner. On the way out at the cash desk we found soap bubbles and couldn't resist. That's why you also see a couple of soap bubbles ;)

Blueberries - Sweden

I've booked my flight to Sweden! I can't wait to go there. It really is my favorite vacation of the year as it is my home. At our summer house time goes a little bit slower and I look forward to do a simple thing like picking blueberries and of course eating them with whipped cream :) Only a few weeks left!

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The secret garden

When I was a child I liked the book The Secret Garden from Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a sad story but at the same time I think everybody that reads it also wishes to have a secret garden like in the book. When I came across this picture today I immediately thought about the book, this picture really comes close to the picture I have of that secret garden.

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Most important vacation of the year

Finally! I've booked my most important vacation of the year - Sweden. I will be there by end of June/start of July, this is definitely the best time (except for Christmas) to be there I look forward to the silence, the nice people, the woods, the sea, the good fish from the market, I'm counting the days….

Small Scandinavian Details

I'm currently visting a lot of friends and relatives here in Sweden and I like the small Scandinavian furniture details like using a porcelain for flowers and basil. These are bowls and cups from an old Danish porcelain. Together with the typical white and grey or beige colors used here in Scandinavia it makes a perfect match, don't you think so?

Kram,

Isabell

Nyborg Wedding

I'm finally in Sweden after the wedding in Nyborg, Denmark. Here are some pictures where I've been the last days. I'm really enjoying Scandinavian summer and the calm days. The first pictures have been taken in the Best Western Hotel in Nyborg:

And of course the married couple:

It was a long weekend and I'll go to bed now and write more tomorrow!

Have a good day!

Kram,

Isabell

3 MORE DAYS

... then I'm off to Denmark and Sweden. One of the things that I'm going to eat there as soon as I arrive is "blåbärssoppa" ("blueberrysoup"). There are some things that come to my mind when I think of Swedish summer and this is one of it and I miss it and look so much forward to tasting it! You can't get it anywhere here in Germany, as it's a typical Swedish dish, but of course you can cook it yourself:

Photo: Arla

Here is what you need:

4 dl water

1 dl sugar

250 g blueberries

1 msk corn starch

2 msk cold water

Please refer to my post about the Swedish measuring cups, for the dl and msk.

Bring the water to boil together with the sugar and add the blueberries, let simmer for approx. 5-10 minutes. Put the corn starch into a cup and add the 2 msk cold water, stir until smooth and add to the blueberry soup. Let simmer for another 2-4 minutes, let it cool down before serving. I like to add custard before serving, but of course you can also add whipped cream instead.

Have a great sunday evening!

Kram,

isabell

Hot summer

Finally it's really summer! I've spent the whole sunday in the sun and every day after work I grab my book or my recipes and a blanket and go downstairs to the little park in our courtyard in order to spend as much time as possible outside. It's like charging all the inner batteries for the long winter and at the same time I look for new recipes which I can try. My favourite food these days is curry with Thai rice, I have it nearly everyday because for me it's the best food when it's a hot summer like it is now.

And of course all sorts of berries:

Have a good day!

Kram,

Isabell

Some summer impressions

Just wanted to show you what I saw today, some of my impressions from today. Hope you're enjoying summer as much as I do.

 And my new candle holders on my breakfast table:

 Kram,

Isabell

The taste of summer

Today was the first real summer day here in Munich. Fruits and the scent of fresh cherries and strawberries are the things that I think of when I need to describe summer. To go to the fruit stands and buy some cherries in these typical brown paper bags which you can see on the picture. So this is what I did today, I wanted to taste summer and bought a kilo of sweet red cherries.

The other thing I bought is a little paper lantern, as I don't have a garden or a balcony I put it on the window sill and I'm quite content with the result:

Enjoy this summer evening!

Kram,

Isabell