Helsingborg

It's a sunny afternoon and I'm walking by Helsingborg's beach. I feel the wind in my hair while I smell the mixture between sand, water and a city. The sun is directly towards my face so I close my eyes. I take a deep breath and breath in the hot air and enjoys the moment. I hear laughter and feel the happiness in the air. It's only morning but I know this will be a fantastic day.


Helsingborg, a wonderful little city in northern Sweden. Helsingborg is a pleasant town located just by the water with a nice sight to Denmark. It’s not just a beautiful and cozy town, it’s also a place which offers good food and great shopping. With it’s nice location right by the water, Helsingborg will give you a Miami or Nice feeling even though you are just in Sweden. This city has a great mix with a long beach and a town with shopping and restaurants just some hundreds of meters away. If you are looking for a place to stay which is not too expensive and with plenty of things to do Helsingborg is the right place for your destination the next holiday.

Things to do

In summer Helsingborg is a beautiful place to swim in. It’s blue and clear water makes the swimming very nice. Just by Helsingborg city they have now made a Tropical Beach with palmtrees on the beach. You will feel like you are abroad. The beach in Helsingborg is a great place to visit, even though it’s not summer and winter, the beach will give you a great walk by the sea with a beautiful view that will reach to Denmark.

A great place to visit in Helsingborg is the beautiful garden Sofiero. Sofiero is fantastic garden full of flowers, labyrinths and vernissages with paintings and ceramics. It’s a beautiful garden and also a perfect place for picnics and playing with children. In the summer evenings Sofiero also have concerts which are outdoors.

         

As a parent to a children you may want to bring your children to do something really fun, then Helsingborg has the perfect place for you. A building full of fun and tricks, called Busfabriken. It’s the children's paradise. While your children plays around in this fun and safe environment you can either join them or enjoy a nice cup of coffee meanwhile they are playing.

Höganäs saluhall is also a nice place to visit. It’s a house full of exclusive food,chark and stores where you can just go around and enjoy the great food Höganäs saluhall offers and feel good in the cool environment. Höganäs saluhall also have a restaurant on the second floor. Boutiques and exhibitions you can also find in Höganäs saluhall.

Places to eat

In Helsingborg there are plenty of restaurants where you can eat, so you will surely find a restaurant that will work best just for you. Some tips are:

Garage Bar, it´s a little restaurant with a relaxed environment with a hint of rock. Red, black and yellow are the main colors in this tough and cool restaurant. Garage offers you hamburgers, tacos, enchiladas and a lot more. A bonus for all of you gluten intolerants is that they can offer gluten free bread going with your hamburger.

Flickorna Lundgren is one of Helsingborg’s lovely cafes or bakery. Flickorna Lundgren is not a normal cafe you can find in the city, it is a bakery with pastries that will make your mouth watering. Flickorna Lundgren is located a bit outside Helsingborg but it’s totally worth the little trip getting there. As soon as you enter flickorna Lundgren you will feel the calm and nice environment, with flowers around your table and horses, goats and pigs walking around in their garden some 100 meters away where you are sitting and enjoying your pastries.

Shopping

Helsingborg is a city full of great shopping. Helsingborg has a great variation of different stores. In the city of Helsingborg you can find the beautiful pedestrian called Kullagatan with a lot stores. Kullagatan offers luxury stores as well as budget stores, both the ordinary stores both also stores that are unique for just Helsingborg.

About 20 minutes outside Helsingborg with car Sweden’s biggest shopping centre is located named Väla centrum. To get to Väla you can either take the bus, bike or drive car. It's easy to get to Väla and not to much walking distance so it won’t be to difficult to carry all of your shopping bags on your way home. Väla offers you a mall with 180 different stores and 20 restaurants. Everyday there is a new adventure at Väla, coming there and shop will be an experience to remember.

In the little town located nearby Helsingborg called Höganäs there is a outlet where you sure will find something for you for a really great price. Höganäs Outlet offers designer clothes and ceramics for a cheaper price. Höganäs Outlet offers the clothing store Lager157, Ittala, Hunkydory and a lot more.

Alicante, the City of the Sun

Alicante, the City of the Sun

Imagine that you are on a beach, the sun shining on your face, the smell of the Mediterranean Sea and the wind blowing in your hair and making the sand dance...

Well, the title says it all, Alicante is a town located on Spain’s east coast, it is sunny almost every day there, it hardly ever rains, and when it does it doesn’t rain much, the summers are warm and the winters are mild.

Things to do, on the summer:

Go to the beach – if it is a sunny day, you just want to relax, maybe take a drink and read a book, then why not go to the beach?

There are beachside bars, which play music all day long, that you can go and buy a cooling soda, or possibly an ice-cream, boardwalks, so that you won’t burn your feet in the hot sand, and activity centers that you can borrow pedal boats, kayaks, windsurf boards and normal surfboards from.

So this is a great activity for both adults and children since there are so many things to do, that are fun for people in all ages!

When you are on the beach, snorkeling is a good tip of mine. The feeling that you get underneath the water, floating and observing the sea animals, it is wonderful!

Go shopping - If you are in Alicante and haven’t been on a market before, I extremely advise that you go to one. You can buy almost anything on the markets, everything from  fruits and vegetables to toys and bags.

“Mercado Central” is a great example and a traditional market that you should go to if you want to buy some food.

But if you just want to go to one shopping center, and buy both clothes and food, “Centro Comercial Plaza Mar 2” is where you should go to. It is located in the middle of Alicante and consists of almost every kind of store.

Event that you should go to:

On July 16th, there is a celebration when the local sailors, and spaniards, pay tribute to their patron saint “La Virgen Del Carmen”. People gather around by the sea and fireworks are shot. It gives you an amazing experience and by my own experience, a celebration that you do not want to miss.