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Åre cablecar

Åre: an Autumn Visit to Sweden’s Most Famous Ski Resort

by Runaway Brit 10 Comments on Åre: an Autumn Visit to Sweden’s Most Famous Ski Resort

With Covid still limiting overseas travel, I have travelled locally in Sweden over the past few months. Recently, I’ve been to Sundsvall, Västerås, Kristianstad and Stockholm. My favourite trip, however, was Åre, a lakeside ski-resort 600 km north of …

Malmö: Sweden’s Gateway to Europe

by Runaway Brit 11 Comments on Malmö: Sweden’s Gateway to Europe

As the gateway to Europe, Malmö ‘s youthful, cosmopolitan vibe is distinctive from other Swedish cities. During the summer, tourists flood the city beach, and residents stroll through leafy parks or run along the beachfront promenade. Everybody cycles, the network …

Eating My Way Around the US

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on Eating My Way Around the US

With my visit to the US coinciding with the fourth of July, I hoped to experience at least two of the ‘four Fs’ that form the tip of the cultural iceberg: food and festivals. I’m sure that fashion and flags …

Kayaking on the Danube in Bratislava

by Runaway Brit 6 Comments on Kayaking on the Danube in Bratislava

Peeping through the trees ahead of me, the iconic shape of the castle reminds me that although I am kayaking in the countryside, I’m actually still in the city. That’s the beauty of Bratislava, one of the world’s smallest capitals; …

Lofoten: A Winter’s Dream

by Runaway Brit 11 Comments on Lofoten: A Winter’s Dream

Waking long before daylight, we found our car concealed beneath the icy shroud of the first winter snowfall. Once outside and puffing impatiently into my hands to enjoy a momentary sensation of warmth, I opened the door shattering the icy …

A Surprise Birthday Trip to Budapest

by Runaway Brit 6 Comments on A Surprise Birthday Trip to Budapest

I left work on Friday with my bag packed for a surprise birthday trip. All I had been told was that the bus departed at 4pm and I would need my passport. Of course, I had a few guesses about …

Bratislava Christmas Markets

Why You Should Visit the Bratislava Christmas Markets This Season

by Runaway Brit Leave a Comment on Why You Should Visit the Bratislava Christmas Markets This Season

Once again, Christmas—the most wonderful time of the year—is upon us; and Bratislava just burst into life with festive crooners singing jovially of snow, sleigh-bells and chestnuts roasting on open fires. Ridiculously cute wooden cabins have sprung up around Historic …

Cyprus coastline

Cyprus: Birthplace of a Goddess

by Runaway Brit 9 Comments on Cyprus: Birthplace of a Goddess

Most people visit Cyprus during the summer, but you shouldn’t avoid this charming Mediterranean island during low season. Known for being the birthplace of Aphrodite: the Goddess of Beauty, Cyprus has much to love – even in winter.

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Sliema Harbour in Malta

Winter Break: Malta

by Runaway Brit Leave a Comment on Winter Break: Malta

Here in Central Europe, summer hangs on a thread. The long, light evenings are closing in, the sun’s warmth is fading fast, and I’m already thinking back to my first holiday of the year in lovely Malta.

While the trees …

Kosice Old Town

Košice, Slovakia: Try Once, Love Forever

by Runaway Brit 7 Comments on Košice, Slovakia: Try Once, Love Forever

Home of Europe’s Oldest Annual Marathon

Slovakia is an underrated travel destination; most people I meet have never heard of it, and could not point it out on a map, so it was surprising to learn that Košice hosted Europe’s …

Goodbye, Serendipity

by Runaway Brit 8 Comments on Goodbye, Serendipity

In March 2008 I visited a place that changed my life. Of course, back then bracing myself for every bump in the dusty road I had no idea where the rusted bus careening wildly along the highway from Phnom Penh …

10 of the Best European Old Towns to Visit this Spring

by Runaway Brit 14 Comments on 10 of the Best European Old Towns to Visit this Spring

Who doesn’t love visiting a Historic Old Town?

My teaching career has shuttled between Europe and Asia on more than a few occasions: I moved from the UK to Vietnam in 2007, Vietnam to Sweden in 2010, Sweden to India …

Help! How Should I pack for Tanzania?

by Runaway Brit 9 Comments on Help! How Should I pack for Tanzania?

This time next week I will be in Tanzania.

Other than a package holiday in Tunisia many years ago, Africa is a completely new continent to me. I am simultaneously jumping for joy about the prospect of my upcoming trip; …

Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

A Snowy Weekend in the Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

by Runaway Brit 2 Comments on A Snowy Weekend in the Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

A few weeks ago, I was tired of the rainy, grey, city sky. I desperately wanted blue sky, crisp air, and plenty of snow. I longed to see mountains; and for that, I would have to go to the Tatra …

Albania, Bunkers

Gazing into the Blue Eye, Albania

by Runaway Brit 24 Comments on Gazing into the Blue Eye, Albania

The unbelievably clear water of Syri i Kalter (‘Blue Eye’) in the South of Albania is beautiful, but it is not easy to reach. You have two options: 1) a laborious 5-hour journey along dilapidated roads from the …

Čachtice: The Castle of the Bloody Countess

by Runaway Brit 16 Comments on Čachtice: The Castle of the Bloody Countess

It’s on a frigid Sunday in late October that I find myself climbing towards the ruins of a 13th Century limestone castle in Čachtice, Slovakia. Battling a bitter wind I draw my coat closer around me; but it is …

Lake Hévíz, Hungary

Hévíz: Bathing in Hungary’s Healing Thermal Lake

by Runaway Brit 13 Comments on Hévíz: Bathing in Hungary’s Healing Thermal Lake

If you’ve been to Budapest then maybe you visited Széchenyi thermal baths; but did you know that with over 1,000 hot springs, Hungary boasts more medicinal spas than any other European country? What’s more, it even has a natural thermal …

A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

by Runaway Brit 7 Comments on A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

I often get people asking me about life as an international teacher, so to honour 10 years of living overseas I have put this post together to show you what a year in my life is like. As I’m a …

Spring in Bratislava is a great time to visit!

by Runaway Brit 11 Comments on Spring in Bratislava is a great time to visit!

Readjusting to a European winter after two years of perpetual summer in India has been harder than I thought. I’m not sure why, because I like winter. For the last few months in Mumbai I’d been looking forward to feeling …

Orava Castle: Inside the Lair of a Vampire

by Runaway Brit 24 Comments on Orava Castle: Inside the Lair of a Vampire

The flickering, grainy image of a hunched figure creeping up a silhouetted staircase, his claw-like hand extending towards a shadowed door, is an iconic piece of cinema history belonging to the 1922 German Expressionist movie, ‘Nosferatu’ – one of …

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