A Place Like This

Valarie Budayr

  • Searching for Truth

    Happy Friday everyone. It's time for the Joy Diet……as I was saying last week,…. I do not think doing "nothing" means being empty. Our journey started with our daily bit of nothingness. I chose to do "nothing" differently this week… Continue reading

  • Visby,the city of Roses and Ruins

    I've been blogging for the past couple of weeks from Sweden but more importantly from my family hometown of Visby Gotland. With all of these posts I haven't told you much about Visby so today I thought we would have… Continue reading

  • The Yellow House Cafe

    It is fairly well known that I love coffee. There isn't a day without a cup or two of the liquid elixir. Gula Huset (The yellow house) is one of the nicest secret treasures of Visby. Open only on saturday and… Continue reading

  • To the Wall !

    There are just a couple more days left on blogging from Sweden. So with time at a minimum I thought it was high time I did something I've always wanted to do……and that would be to climb "the wall" which… Continue reading

  • Nothingness

    We join spokes together in a wheel, But it is the center hole That makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, But it is the emptiness inside That holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a… Continue reading

  • Everywhere I go, there’s Vintage

    Upon leaving the Hansgatan Konditori, I found this lovely little shop just across the road called, Acanthus. Here they mix old with new but honestly….I love the old. When I say old I mean really old. The cupboard in the… Continue reading

  • A Room with a View for a Damsel in a Tower

    Curious?   Finally, after many airline delays and transfers, I made it from Karlskrona Sweden to our hometown of Visby Gotland. I thought I would arrive in the afternoon but when I finally landed it was 10:30 pm . So under… Continue reading

  • What Brings You Joy?

    Greetings from Astrid Lindgren's house in Sweden,….. and welcome to my second post of the day. I'm so happy to have quick internet again….that's what brings me joy.Sorry I missed you here on Friday but I'm here today. Hi, I'm… Continue reading

  • A Morning Market Walk

    Greetings. I hope this finds everyone well. I've had my fair share of bad internet connections,hence the status of being incognito. So where have I been? Well..once we left Stockholm we drove all the way down south to Karlskrona. In-between… Continue reading

  • Vintage Wanderings

    As we were meandering along country roads on our way to the next castle, we happened to pass over hither and yon to find a very large red barn in the distance. On the side was the word "Antique" or… Continue reading