Tradition Archives - Runaway Brit

Festivals, Food & Fun: Seven Weeks in Bratislava

October 16, 2016October 16, 2016 Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Expat Life, Featured, Food and Drink, Tourist Attraction, Tradition Bratislava, burciak, cabbage festival, festivals, langos, Slovakia, stupava, white night

Having lived in Bratislava for only seven weeks I am still new to Slovak culture, particularly as I knew very little about either Slovakia or the city before I came here. It is true to say,

The Sound of Silence in Kerala’s Backwaters

September 17, 2016September 22, 2016 Featured, Food and Drink, India, Life in India, Tourist Attraction, Tradition, Travelling backwaters, boat, india, kerala

Having lived in Asia for 6 years of my life, I am pretty immune to noise by now. I can sleep through the loudest thunderstorm, I like hearing early morning church bells or the Call to Prayer,

Kare Ayurveda Retreat: Eat, Stretch, Love

October 25, 2015March 28, 2016 Advice, Asia, Featured, Food and Drink, Health & Fitness, India, Life in India, Nature, Tradition, Working Overseas ayurveda, health, iyengar, KARE, lifestyle, mulshi lake, pune, retreat, yoga

Life in Mumbai can get pretty chaotic: it’s a big city, filled with—literally—millions of people. Like Raj says in ‘Big Bang Theory’: ‘it’s hot, and it's loud, and there are so many people! You have

Stick Fishermen of Sri Lanka: Fishing for Dollars

March 22, 2015December 6, 2015 Asia, Beaches, Featured, Tradition, Travelling culture, fishing, SriLanka, stick fishing, stilt fishing, tourism, travel

There are few things more exciting than seeing an iconic view of a place that you have travelled thousands of miles to visit, whether it’s the Eiffel Tower glittering in the night sky, a decorated

Sustainable Tourism in India: Redstone Eco Centre, Mahabaleshwa

September 21, 2014April 21, 2015 Asia, Featured, Life in India, Nature, Tradition, Travelling ecotourism, farm, india, mahabaleshwar, organic, panchgani, redstone, self-sufficient, sustainable tourism

India is a country that forces travellers to question their lifestyle choices, which is why so many people come here looking for change; and in many cases sustainable tourism can offer a chance for the

Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

May 10, 2014May 10, 2014 Europe, Featured, History, Life in Sweden, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Tradition, Travelling gotland, scandinavia, st katarina, sweden, visby

Swedes are travellers: roaming foreign lands is in their blood. It is Viking blood, after all. Stone depicting seafaring Vikings. You’ll be hard pushed to travel far without running into a Swede or two. This

New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Cornwall

January 1, 2014July 11, 2016 Europe, Partying, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom celebration, cornwall, costume, fancy dress, looe, new year, NYE, party

This year I decided that my NYE celebrations would be very low-key as my Iceland trip and the run-up to Christmas has been pretty expensive, so I decided to hold back for New Year. My

The Essential Elements of a British Christmas

December 24, 2013January 13, 2014 Europe, Food and Drink, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom britain, christmas, mince pies, music, the snowman, tv, uk

"The Brits are pretty special in the way that they celebrate Christmas..."“How do you celebrate Christmas in the UK?” is a question that I have been asked a number of times during the six Christmases

The Jim Thompson House, Bangkok

December 9, 2013April 26, 2016 Asia, Food and Drink, History, Nature, Tradition, Travelling bangkok, house, jim thompson, silk, thailand

When I was a student we used to visit a restaurant called Jim Thompson’s. It was an Asian fusion restaurant that was well known in my university town, not only for good food, but also

Warm or Cold Christmas?

December 25, 2012January 26, 2013 Asia, Beaches, Blogging, Childhood Memories, Food and Drink, Partying, Tradition, Travelling christmas, climate, festive, party, snow, travelling, white christmas

Whether Christmas is best celebrated in a warm climate or cold climate is a topic often discussed by travellers. The opinions of most tend to depend heavily upon where that traveller was raised. It is

Lighting a Candle on All Saints Day, Sweden

November 4, 2012October 31, 2015 Europe, Life in Sweden, Swedish Tourism, Tradition, Travelling, Uncategorized all saints day, alla helgons dag, cemetery, Skogskyrkogården, stockholm, sweden tradition

All Saints Day is an official holiday in the Swedish calendar. It is celebrated on the Saturday that falls between the 31st October and the 6th November. Many businesses close early on Friday afternoon, and

Why I Want to go Back to Japan

September 9, 2012April 10, 2016 Asia, Beaches, Food and Drink, Japan, Nature, Partying, Teaching, Tradition, Travelling, Working Overseas buddhism, festival, food, hiroshima, izu, japan, kyoto, landscape, okomiyaki, peninsula, shintoism, tokyo, travelling

I lived in Tokyo for a year between August 2002 and August 2003 and I can’t believe that it was ten years ago. I had barely used email before I left for Japan, and I

Category: Tradition

Festivals, Food & Fun: Seven Weeks in Bratislava

The Sound of Silence in Kerala’s Backwaters

Kare Ayurveda Retreat: Eat, Stretch, Love

Stick Fishermen of Sri Lanka: Fishing for Dollars

Sustainable Tourism in India: Redstone Eco Centre, Mahabaleshwa

Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Cornwall

The Essential Elements of a British Christmas

The Jim Thompson House, Bangkok

Warm or Cold Christmas?

Lighting a Candle on All Saints Day, Sweden

Why I Want to go Back to Japan

A Slice of Welsh Life at St Fagans National History Museum

Tenerife’s Good Friday Passion Play

Colours of Carnival, Tenerife

Travel or Family, Do You Always Have to Choose?

Christmas—The Season of the Heart

Machu Picchu—the City in the Clouds

The Sacred Valley of the Incas

The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca