Love & Marriage Overseas: Three Kids Later, Happy and In Love in Sweden!

Cali_girl_in_Sweden

You have a beautiful family;-)

Elaine_afromorena1985 Amen to that. See the world by all means if you can. College age BW study abroad if possible. You see God is still in the business of making sure Adam has a Eve for companionship. Of course vice versa. I love it! Great comment Elaine.

Betty Boo

Sounds like a great business opportunity for some enterprising young person. Have beautician's licence will travel.

Betty Boo I guess it depends on were you live, but I always thought it was easy enough to find it in stockholm. I know a few girls there who have their hairdresses. I personally just go to copenhagen when I want my hair done. TBH, most of the hairdresses here makes you look no better than the 20 dollar hookers in copenhagen.

Nkosazana I was in London in 2008 and alot of the black women had TERRIBLE WEAVES. I mean Italian straight over kinky hair no type of blending whatsoever. When I spoke to Scarlet about it she said that there are black hairdressers all over Europe but not as abundant as here. She said she at one time had to fly to London (2 hour flight) to get her hair done. Sure there are terrible black hairdressers but there are good ones too. The ones who are professional and good at what they do could make a killing over there with the right permission. Say fly over, stay two weeks or a month and just do hair, the black women I am sure would love it especially the ones from the US it would give them a feeling of "Home". Note I said the hairdressers that are quality professionals not every woman with a beauticians license qualifies!

Betty BooNkosazana No offense to anyone but I cannot imagine flying anywhere to get my hair taken care of.

Actually this is why I went natural..I'd been in Canada for almost a yr.. the lady who did my Wave Nouvea(sp) was going back to school.. and the nearest hairdresser was in Toronto about 40-50 mins away or longer depending on traffic. I went to braids and when that braider left I started braiding and then let me hair do it's own thing!

blackpanthershayBetty BooNkosazana My sister who is also here in Stockholm (whole other story) has natural hair so doesn't have a problem at all. I personally don't think natural is for me. Now that I have found a good hairdresser, I'm content. My first year here I looked ROUGH ... lol! Now that is LOVE.

Nkosazana I use to go to London, but that was unrealistic. I find that natural hairstylist are a bit easier to find here. If you want weaving or tracks, that can be a bit of a struggle.

NickNik

A little raunchy for me! LOL

Maxine

Actually she's not black, she's mixed, her dad is white and mum is black (The name! its all in the name!)

Well I think the minimum number was 100.000 africans here born outside of sweden. That is all that you can count since people don't ask for race here so you we don't know how many black people are living here for sure. So there's not that few since there's 9 milion people in sweden

Nkosazana Oh interesting. I saw the double S in the last name and figured the dad had to be a Swede.

Maxine

I believe that Miss Norway was also a Black woman a couple of years ago also (mixed -- Mother from Botswana, Father from Norway).

Seenyc Going on one of Fleace's trips is on my to-do list this year. Perhaps she will ad northern Europe as a destination.

I went on her northern Italy trip in 2008. She has been adding more and more destinations. I think maybe I should suggest the sista friendly Scandanavia!

Seenyc make sure you look us up if you come this way :).

Thank you, will do!

Seenyc Do wait for me. Are I'll just catch the next plan.

:)

Seenyc Awesome!

I'm so on the same page, Seenyc. I'm planning a solo trip to Scandinavia this fall (August or September). Sweden and Denmark are definitely on the list but can't decide if I will go to Norway or not. If I don't go to Norway, I may add Finland to the list. But, I'm going for almost three weeks.

ChristineB Look me up Christine! Would love to meet you IRL :)

I absolutely will. :-) I hope to solidify my plans by April or May and will let you know.

ChristineB

I emailed a friend in Sweden to figure out when would be the best time to visit. I was going to go either in June for the Midsummer festivalen(hope I spelled that right) or August/ September . I'm hoping to extend the trip to Denmark and Norway. Maybe we will be able to meet in one of the countries for a Fika! LOL. I get butterflies everytime I think about it!

SeenycChristineB Yes, June or July is a great time of year! Should be warm and lots of people around on vacation. Midsommar is a great thing to experience! Keep me posted ... we love visitors :).

I'm going in August/September. I'd prefer around the 16th through September 1st, but I hear people go away in August for vacation. So, I may go around August 30th through mid-September. But, I'd love to meet up with anyone in that area.

ChristineB Most people take all of July for vacation. August/September can be cold. I think June or July are the best months. August can be really good or really bad weather wise.

Cali_girl_in_Sweden Thanks for the heads up, Scarlet. I would love to go in June or July. But, it seems, at least for now, that August is the earliest I can go. I have a graduation to go to in May, one of my sisters and I are going to Toronto at the end of June, and I'm hoping lodging (which seems to be the most expensive part of travel) will be less expensive. But, I will keep checking to see if a window of opportunity opens up beforehand. Thanks again. :-)

Jay from Philly LOOOOOOOL !!!! Sad part is, Tyrone is rolling up his sleeves, getting ready to type that now

It was hilarious, reading this.

Jay from Philly The massa argument would truly be funny, since Sweden has no history of importing African slaves or colonizing another country. Ha!