Live to Love the Road. Your dreams deserve to come true.
Travel advice for Morocco and book a trip or ask me to personalize your own journey.
I (Victoria Ahlén) inspire and share ideas. Book me as speaker, inspirator and storyteller.
I give back to the Nomad tribes and children surrounding Tagounite, Sahara through the Vilostrada Foundation.
Love and Peace/ Victoria Ahlén, founder
Happy International Camel Day 2020. Missing my fury friends here in Sweden and remembering all the good times. If you have a camel nearby, treat it to some orange peels. Live to Love the Road.
When you sit still and let the path of life unfold in your heart.
Dear Frigiliana, you gave me and the family all we could ever dream of moving to and living in a Mediterranean/Andalucian village. I carry each park, fiesta, cafe con leche, smiling neighbor and mountain top in my heart forever.
Live to Love the Road.
You're round our neck of the woods now! 😊
Our handmade tiles from Tangier in an almost finished bathroom in Göteborg, Sweden. Happy to see the finished result. Enjoy your new space.
Hello Sweden. This summer we meet again as I return ready to take on new challenges and develop business with you. Thanks to Founder’s Loft who let me inspire and share wisdom to more than 10 new companies that stand ready to conquer the world eager to sell more and develop their dream projects. We were supposed to meet in person in April, but a Zoom lunch had to become the substitute.You impressed me with your clarity and ingenuity in your online channels. Stand tall and take a bow. In my years abroad, I have really missed the power of action, meeting management and the wealth of innovation that Sweden possesses. In so many meetings over the last 7 years, I have been a voluntary Swedish ambassador abroad for these qualities, now I join the home team once more.
Live to Love the Road.
www.vilostrada.com/victoria/global-passionista-heads-north/ (English)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/global-passionista-g%C3%B6r-%C3%A5tert%C3%A5g-till-norr-victoria-ahl%C3%A9n/ (Swedish)
#innovation #sweden #global
By sunset the herd of goats return to the Nomad settlement for shelter for the night. The baby goats reunite with their mamas. The bread is in the making over fire oven, tagine or gamila sizzling on the gas or charcoal. We sit around the fire and share a tea. Life slows down. Together under the starlit sky. Peace.
Ramadan Mubarak dear friends and enjoy the festivities coming this week.
#livetolovetheroad #vilostrada
I asked my talented daughter Maj to interpret into art ”Live to Love the Road”.
What is your definition, thoughts on the sentence? I need your input for the book with the same title.
#vilostrada #livetolovetheroad
It's not the goal, it's the journey🤗
The road ahead demands change. This is my definition. What is yours?
Change is looking for the road forward. To change is to follow that road and allow whatever happens to take place. To meet all new challenges with a smile and open mind, knowing that first impression is not always the correct one and most likely spent from an emotional version that may not reflect the reality. Change is powerful and keeps us and me alive. I thrive in this environment and see it as an adventure. This time, change came where I never in a million years would have seen it coming. Change, right now, kicked me in the stomach hard and floored me. My willingness to survive made me realize that the only way change and I will be good friends again is if we collaborate. So let us do this. Together, we are stronger.
Live to Love the Road.
#livetolovetheroad #vilostrada
Deux oiseaux.
Un saludo a May del parte de Alejandro Grommen
Sötnosar***
30 Costa Women socializing at newly opened Villa Dolores right outside Torre del Mar. One of our hostesses Anncatrin Leveland, owner of Villa Dolores, welcomed all guests with a glass of cava and Swedish tapas served on the terrace overlooking the… Continue Reading →
– Salam Alejkoum I greet the custom’s agent as I hand him my papers and passport. – Are you a Moroccan resident, the custom’s agent asks me? – No, I simply love Morocco. I help 500 children since three years… Continue Reading →
Our new desert project Common Ground Tanmirt launched April 6 and is slowly finding its course. We see spring in the air and happily welcome new partners to our network. All people and organisations who like us believe in all… Continue Reading →
Directly from our eco tagine artisan Aicha in Oued Laou, Morocco, to our Vilostrada shop, we welcome you to the newly launched: Tagine Lovers Vilostrada forum on Facebook. Tagine is our way of gathering friends of Vilostrada who share our… Continue Reading →
Eco tagine, made by clay and water from Oued Laou on the northern coast of Morocco. Burnt at the home of our talented artisan Aicha, her story and the process to make the tagines you can read more about here shortly…. Continue Reading →
Welcome to our first Tagine Workshop at our home base Frigiliana on March 22. In Morocco, family and friends gather around a tagine to share a meal. This is where stories are told and people sit and spend time with… Continue Reading →
Our friends and Vilostrada fans Ankie and Rob have opened a Bed & Breakfast by the gorgeous seaside right outside Torre Del Mar called Villa Dolores. Set in a beautiful mix of rural Andalucia, ocean views and solemn mountains in the… Continue Reading →
Special order your Moroccan wood screens hand made by our talented artisan Noureddine Afia in Chefchaouen. Here are a few examples of his work: Prizes start a 70€ + shipping.
An hour away from home in Frigiliana, we arrive in Sierra Nevada. A ski resort with more than 100 slopes(on current trip 40 open). The slopes suit beginners and experts and the resort is well planned from arriving, parking underground,… Continue Reading →
Anki traveled with Victoria in November 2015 to furnish her new B&B – Villa Dolores, a personal shopping tour with Vilostrada. We maxed four days of exploring & shopping in Tanger, Oued Laou and Chefchaouen. “A personal and great experience… Continue Reading →
Oil your tagine * Cut your vegetables in eatable pieces Fry chopped onions in olive oil. Pile up vegetables with the carrots, potatoes, in the bottom, like a pyramid. Add the softer vegetable on top. Continue the pyramid. Season with… Continue Reading →
You know routine, these things that fill our every day and most sigh loudly about? We changed ours drastically in August 2013, when we moved to Andalucia in Spain. We added more variety when we decided I would go to… Continue Reading →
On Monday January 19 our Common Ground Art project, #commongroundart, launched. Our daughter Maj, 7 years, is the boss with great help from her mentor Mohamed Raiss El Fenni at Volubilis Art Gallery in Tanger, Morocco. Contributions from all over… Continue Reading →
Happy Birthday to me and the rest of you in the world I share it with. One of the lessons I learnt while working with Vilostrada, is that we must love and accept ourselves for who we are before we can… Continue Reading →
Would you like to join our Art Challenge to find Common Ground 2016? Sign up for more information in this form. You will hear back from us shortly. The project will ask you to electronically or virtually produce 5 pieces… Continue Reading →
A new year begins and a blank calendar to fill with new adventures, meetings with great people and lessons to learn. We look forward to a new year with you. This year we continue to Live to Love the Road… Continue Reading →
An old Berber saying would make my Christmas wish for peace and love true. A trip in on our Life to Love the Road Tour (#LTLTR) in southern Morocco with my husband Joakim. On Christmas Day our petite taxi awaits… Continue Reading →
Vilostrada is our dream of a lifestyle where we live to love the road. We sum up an adventurous 2015 on the roller coaster that is Vilostrada and also our life: VIVA Proudly Vilostrada teamed up with Estifeda for the Common Ground… Continue Reading →
Julakuten‘s, a fundraiser benefitting 300 children at Assocation Darna, goal on November 28-29, 2015, was to raise 2 140€ (20 000 SEK) to pay for school material and a safe environment. We surpassed our goal and raised 2 390 € (22… Continue Reading →
Proud to launch this new chapter on our journey to Live to Love the Road. Amazed on how far love and believing in the good in the world have gotten us with Common Ground. So many smiles, obstacles conquered, tears,… Continue Reading →
As Christmas and the year end draws closer when we travel to two different countries, we as a family wanted to enjoy a day out on an adventure together. We have overcome many obstacles together as a team since our… Continue Reading →
Our young heroes and partners at Smedingeskolan 7A with their teacher Malin Jeppsson have given so much positive energy this fall to our community building project Common Ground. Here they send their happy hello to all the children at Darna…. Continue Reading →
This morning I had the huge honor to visit Skanörs skola in southern Sweden. I met young heroes who helped raise money last Christmas for Common Ground. They also connected with students in Akerate over Skype calls and sent exchanged knowledge. A… Continue Reading →
Article by Jennie Rhodes, published in SUR English 20151120 Vilostrada, which means Viva (Live), Love and Strada (Road), calls itself a lifestyle brand. The family that run it call it the “mothership” that fuels the community building project, Common Ground. They… Continue Reading →
A year ago on October 1, 2014, we started the Common Ground community building project together. A year later, we proudly sum up the events in this video of our work building global bridges with edcuation, entrepreneurship and storytelling. By… Continue Reading →
Help us create safe children and give them education for a bright future. Our annual fundraiser is booked at Båt- och Sjöfartsmuseet in Onsala, Sweden November 28-29 . With our Common Ground partners in Sweden, we aim to raise 20 000… Continue Reading →
Good morning world from a Chefchaouen that welcomes us with blue, clear skies matching the color of the city set in the mountains in front of me. I sneak out after the morning prayers woke me up around 5.30 am…. Continue Reading →
Today, Sara Laine at En Sueco – a magazine on Costa del Sol, Spain writes about our story, published in the November issue pages 36-37. Since the story is in Swedish, we wanted to translate the story here for you. Photos are taken… Continue Reading →
This product consists of assembly instructions to build your own pallet sofa from EUR-pallets. The instructions will be e-mailed to you after your purchase. We look to recycle and upcycle things, inspired by Darna, refo and sustainability. This pallet chair… Continue Reading →
We look to recycle and upcycle things, inspired by Darna, refo and sustainability. This pallet sofa is made by old pallets with a worn, rustic look, design by Vilostrada. It fits perfectly for your outdoor sitting area or even for a restaurant… Continue Reading →
The day finally arrived when the mule stood there packed on the Akchour parking lot at the end of September. Three friends from Spain had said yes to coming on an adventure with me to go up in the Rif… Continue Reading →
Since that day in October 2013 when I was first introduced to the Rif Mountains and Talassemtane National Park by our guide Kritz, my heart knew I came home. These are mountains I know well even if I never sat… Continue Reading →
Maj (7 yrs) and Lucas(10 yrs)Ahlen list their Darna favorite activities: “Hanging out on the soccer goal as I drew here”, says Maj. “I liked the music instrument. Great music here>>“, says Maj: Lucas: – Play soccer with my… Continue Reading →
Welcome to a group of students in 7th grade at Smedingeskolan in Fjärås, Sweden. Their warm hearted energy to educate and be educated in world citizienship. This summer Victoria and Joakim got truly inspired by Johan Rockström summer pod on… Continue Reading →
Meeting young entrepreneurs always makes me smile. Today I met almost 20 summer entrepreneurs (Sommarlovsentreprenörer) in Kungsbacka over Skype. If you live nearby keep an eye out for LL film, Lina, Raisha, Jonas, Fanny and many more with new businesses ranging from… Continue Reading →
“She looking at me, smiling. This girl of no more than 6 years old. Laughing. Probably at how funny I look, or just because of the simple excitement of having new people visit their school out there in the middle… Continue Reading →
This is a beautifully crafted hand wood made stool, colorful string, made in Marrakesh. This stool can be ordered in colors of your choice. At home this serves as a foot stool, children’s stool and in the kitchen to reach… Continue Reading →
Julia and Ebba, 14 years old traveled with me and their mothers to Dardara-Chefchaouen-Tanger this past long weekend. Here they blog about their journey: On Wednesday afternoon about 6 p.m, we were on our way to the airport were we… Continue Reading →
Four girls co-wrote the first five chapters in a digital book called Common Ground with the tool Kissa created by Estiféda. You will be able to view them soon. Four young heroines started sharing stories from everyday life and technology… Continue Reading →
Nour Essoukri, 11 years, co-writer of the digital Common Ground book #commongroundkissa, writes after attending the Mobile Learning Week as the youngest participant today: “Aujourd’hui, j’accompagné papa à l’UNESCO pour son travail. J’ai rencontré deux de ses collègues. Victoria m’a… Continue Reading →
A great part of running Common Ground are the global conversations and educational processes we get to join in. Yesterday, I talked to a group of scouts at Äventyrarna in Askims Sjöscoutkår. The scouts will soon have Thinking Day (February… Continue Reading →
Åsa Holmén, ÅH! Betong & Återbruk, from Onsala, Sweden traveled with Victoria Ahlén to northern Morocco to learn the country traditions, get involved in the starting of a women’s cooperative in Akerate as well as find inspiration for her new concrete… Continue Reading →
One week ago, I said farewell to my father. He passed away quickly due to lung cancer. We celebrated his life and his laughter. Life teaches you to focus on the core. Life again taught me to keep giving to… Continue Reading →
We can change the world. We should laugh every day with people we love. Today marks the celebration of 40 great years in my life with people I love and living in a world I love. Together we can easily… Continue Reading →
From all of us a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Follow our continued journey on our two facebook sites Vilostrada and Common Ground
Yoga to support Common ground – During this autumn I’ve been teaching free yoga classes to a group of teachers at a school. I handed out information about Vilostrada and Common Ground with option to donate. After the last session… Continue Reading →
Some days the challenge of building sustainable bridges overwhelms. Great obstacles ahead of us, and we have our small resources to rely on. One school with 60 children, teaches me daily to stay focused on the road ahead. Sometimes, I… Continue Reading →
“A daily school meal provides a strong incentive to send children to school and keep them there”, says World Food Programme. “They allow children to focus on their studies rather than their stomachs and boost their education by increasing school… Continue Reading →
In 24 short chapters, we share stories of building Vilostrada on our facebook page. Come close, meet the artisans, our family and stories from the heart. A chronology from the start: We started Vilostrada in August 2014. VI(va) + LO(ve)+STRADA =… Continue Reading →
Saknas julstämningen? Behöver du hjälp att slå in dina julklappar? Några presenter kvar att fixa? Julgodiset ogjort? Välkommen den 19 december kl 14-19 och den 20 december kl 11-16 till Sjöfartsmuseet i Onsala. JULAKUTEN fixar det sista stöket med dig. . Och… Continue Reading →
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