23 Dec 2024
Community
Camera Diaries with Karen Creative Arts Featured

Camera Diaries with Karen – How to take long exposure photographs

I am Karen Pérez Guzmán, a Mexican photographer who’s traveled far from home to the northern lands of the world with my camera under my arm – both as a way of getting work and money, and a way to enjoy and see life differently. Photography is something I have wanted to do ever since my father […]

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Community Family Health Parenting

Top 5 strategies to help children adapt to their world and thrive

We live in an incredibly stressful and distracted world. According to current statistics, 1 in 10 children are diagnosed with a mental illness and data shows that this is on the rise.* Not only do we have this alarming situation with children’s mental health, our world also has many new complex issues that require great […]

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Culture Expat Cookbook

Expat Cookbook: Spicy Peanut & Garlic Lamb with Pineapple & Pomegranate Salad

Just returned to Stockholm from your wonderful winter holiday of leisurely soaking up the sun and surf in the summery or tropical parts of the planet? Then this recipe of lovely intense and refreshing contrasts promises gently sublime memories of the very same exotic scents, flavours and textures of places continually kissed by the steady […]

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Community Galleries

Pictures from our readers during 2016

This is a big thank you to our readers. You made our year! You can still be featured in this gallery. Just tag your photos on Instagram or Facebook with #YourLivingCity.

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Community Expat Support Family Parenting

Baby Talk: Top 10 Tips to Help You Sparkle over the Festive Season!

Top 10 tips to help you sparkle over the festive season: 1.  Smile! This season offers so many opportunities to be social and the warmth and positivity you’ll receive in return is a boost. Even with two hours sleep and a howling baby, smile!   2. Coffee – this cannot be overstated. You’ve moved on from […]

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Culture Lifestyle Swedish Culture

Cookbooks For Swedish Food & Drink Aficionados

The pure joy of having the opportunity of living in Sweden for a couple of years is irrevocably tied to the world’s current fascination with Scandinavian food trends – from dishes rooted in centuries of traditions to the ever evolving new Nordic flavours and textures. There is nothing more heart warming than indulging on a […]

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Community Expat Cookbook

Party Treat: Goan Curry Surf & Turf

Christmas is about peace and goodwill to all mankind. So throw a party, invite the friends you have made in Stockholm from far and near. There is no better time to spread the yuletide cheer… … and no better way to start the bash than with finger food that reflects your celebration of multicultural harmony […]

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Clothing Community Fashion & Beauty Lifestyle Services Videos

Your Living City Role Models: Kungsateljé

Kungsateljé is a tailoring service from Stockholm that is taking the concept of modifying and preparing your clothes to a new level of fashion consultancy and style solutions. Meet Said and Sam, the talent and soul of Kungsateljé, two role models who came to Sweden to mix tailoring traditions with innovation and are forging great […]

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Community Expat Cookbook Uncategorized

Expat Cookbook: Spiced Lobster Soufflé

When I plan a dinner for friends with sophisticated palates decidedly fond of the king of crustaceans, I dust this recipe out of my treasure trove of time-tested dishes bearing my signature twists and fusions to serve as a winning appetizer for five, for the complex depth of flavours embedded within this soufflé’s deceptively light […]

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Community Lifestyle Movies

Getting our Nerd on at Comic Con

Comic Con is the place to be for all of us who like nerding over stuff like comics, superheroes, movies, TV series, gaming, fandom and cosplay. The Stockholm Comic Con was once again held at Kistamässan on the first weekend of November, and the event drew a large crowd, many of them all dressed up for […]

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