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Category: Swedish History

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Wellness Retreat: The Dalecarlia Hotel and Spa

by Runaway Brit 14 Comments on Wellness Retreat: The Dalecarlia Hotel and Spa

After a hard few months, I finally got to enjoy a relaxing spa weekend at the Dalecarlia Hotel in Dalarna, Sweden.

Little did I know, when I was floating in a hot tub overlooking Lake Siljan last weekend, that the …

Loginn Hotel, Stockholm

Loginn: a Floating Hotel in Stockholm

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on Loginn: a Floating Hotel in Stockholm

Spread across 14 islands the city of Stockholm has arisen from the sea, so it seems rather fitting to stay on the water rather than next to it when you visit the stunning Swedish capital. This was my reasoning for …

Weekend Break: Västerås

by Runaway Brit 3 Comments on Weekend Break: Västerås

If you are researching flights to Stockholm, you may well come across an airport called ‘Stockholm Västerås’, particularly if you are flying with love-it-or-hate-it airline, Ryanair. But, what you should know in this scenario is that Västerås is, …

Finding History and Nature in Gorgeous Gotland

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on Finding History and Nature in Gorgeous Gotland

In my last post I write about Visby, a perfectly preserved medieval town and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Swedish island of Gotland; but the colourful labyrinthine alleys of this Baltic-blasted, cobbled town are not the only thing worth …

Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

by Runaway Brit 6 Comments on Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

Swedes are travellers: roaming foreign lands is in their blood.

It is Viking blood, after all.

You’ll be hard pushed to travel far without running into a Swede or two. This is especially true of South East Asia, which …

Exploring SoFo: Stockholm’s Most Sociable Neighbourhood

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on Exploring SoFo: Stockholm’s Most Sociable Neighbourhood

Travel doesn’t always have to be far away; sometimes you can explore your own area through the eyes of a tourist. As you know, I have been living and working in Stockholm since May 2012.

To me it’s home. To …

Anundshög: Sweden’s largest Viking burial site

by Runaway Brit 7 Comments on Anundshög: Sweden’s largest Viking burial site

Being a bit of a History geek one of my favourite things about travelling is encountering ancient cultures and histories, and where better to be than Scandinavia—home of the Viking? 

Britons, in particular, will be very familiar with the …

Stockholm on a Budget

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‘Stockholm’ and ‘cheap’. Two words that you don’t often hear uttered in the same sentence. It is common knowledge that tourists’ hard-earned cash doesn’t stretch that far in the Scandinavian countries, making visiting them an expensive …

Weddings and Castles

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on Weddings and Castles

On Saturday I attended my first wedding in Sweden. I am hesitant to say Swedish Wedding as, despite the geographical location, there was probably very little about the wedding that was traditionally Swedish. The bride is Swedish but has Finnish …

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