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Europe Featured Humour Life in Sweden Swedish Tradition Tradition

Julbocken: the Swedish Tradition that Usually Goes up in Flames

Bratislava Europe Expat Featured Tourist Attraction Tradition

Čičmany: Slovakia’s Charming Gingerbread Houses

Bratislava Europe Expat Expat Life Featured Food and Drink Tourist Attraction Tradition

Festivals, Food & Fun: Seven Weeks in Bratislava

Kerala backwaters
Featured Food and Drink India Life in India Tourist Attraction Tradition Travelling

The Sound of Silence in Kerala’s Backwaters

Advice Asia Featured Food and Drink Health & Fitness India Life in India Nature Tradition Working Overseas

Kare Ayurveda Retreat: Eat, Stretch, Love

Asia Beaches Featured Tradition Travelling

Stick Fishermen of Sri Lanka: Fishing for Dollars

Asia Featured Life in India Nature Tradition Travelling

Sustainable Tourism in India: Redstone Eco Centre, Mahabaleshwa

Europe Featured History Life in Sweden Swedish History Swedish Tourism Swedish Travel Tradition Travelling

Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

All Saints' Day Tribute
Europe Life in Sweden Swedish Tourism Swedish Tradition Tradition Travelling

Lighting a Candle on All Saints’ Day, Sweden

Europe Tradition Travelling United Kingdom

St Fagans: a Slice of Welsh Life

Europe Tradition Travelling

Tenerife’s Good Friday Passion Play

Europe Partying Tradition Travelling

Colours of Carnival, Tenerife

Nature South America Tradition Travelling

Machu Picchu—the City in the Clouds

Nature South America Tradition Travelling

The Sacred Valley of the Incas

Nature South America Tradition Travelling

The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca

South America Tradition Travelling

Cholita Wrestling

Swedish Midsommar
Europe Food and Drink Friends and Family Life in Sweden Partying Swedish Tradition Tradition Travelling

Midsommar: a night of Swedish madness

Europe Tradition United Kingdom

Wimbledon – A British Institution

Life in Sweden Swedish Tourism Tradition Travelling

Why Sweden is a Great Place to Live

Kosice Old Town
City Break Europe Featured Health & Fitness History Tourist Attraction Travelling

Košice, Slovakia: Try Once, Love Forever

by Runaway Briton 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 …

Asia Beaches Featured Heartbreak Life Relationships Travelling

Goodbye, Serendipity

by Runaway Britupdated on 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 …

Europe Featured Nature Tourist Attraction

Europe Travel: Eight Lakes in Six Days

by Runaway Britupdated on 18 Comments on Europe Travel: Eight Lakes in Six Days

“What do you want to see on our trip around Europe?” I asked my friend.

“Mountains, lakes, or beaches” came the reply.

Lakes, it is then.

Because Europe is so compact, one of the best things about travelling around the …

Featured Life Relationships

Reinvention, Promotion, and a Whole Load of Summer Travel

by Runaway Briton 6 Comments on Reinvention, Promotion, and a Whole Load of Summer Travel

If you have read my blog for some time, you may have noticed that I have been absent for a while. On the other hand, maybe, you have not. Either way, it has been five months since I last wrote …

Featured Relationships

Heartbreak and Healing in the Holy Land

by Runaway Britupdated on 4 Comments on Heartbreak and Healing in the Holy Land

“May I have your passport, please?” asked the man at the hotel’s dingy reception desk.

“Certainly.” Smiling brightly, I handed it over.

“And the other one?”, he asked.

“Um, there is no other one. …

City Break Europe Featured History Top Ten Tourist Attraction Travelling

10 of the Best European Old Towns to Visit this Spring

by Runaway Briton 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 …

Featured Travelling

Help! How Should I pack for Tanzania?

by Runaway Britupdated on 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
Bratislava City Break Europe Expat Life Featured Nature Tourist Attraction Travelling

A Snowy Weekend in the Tatra Mountains, Slovakia

by Runaway Briton 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
Europe Featured Nature Top Ten Tourist Attraction Travelling

Gazing into the Blue Eye, Albania

by Runaway Briton 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 …

Bratislava Europe Featured History Tourist Attraction Travelling

Čachtice: The Castle of the Bloody Countess

by Runaway Britupdated on 14 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
City Break Europe Featured Health & Fitness Nature Tourist Attraction Travelling

Hévíz: Bathing in Hungary’s Healing Thermal Lake

by Runaway Briton 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 …

Bratislava Europe Expat Expat Life Featured Travelling Working Overseas

A Year in the Life of an International Teacher

by Runaway Briton 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 …

Bratislava City Break Europe Expat Life Featured Health & Fitness Travelling

Spring in Bratislava is a great time to visit!

by Runaway Britupdated on 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 …

macaron, Bratislava
Bratislava Europe Expat Expat Life Featured Food and Drink

Boulanger & Patissiere: Bratislava’s Macaron Masterclass

by Runaway Britupdated on 18 Comments on Boulanger & Patissiere: Bratislava’s Macaron Masterclass

I’ve always liked the look of a dainty, brightly coloured, meringue macaron. You know, the ones that you see piled delicately on silver platters in fancy cake shops? They look exquisite, but as I’m more of a cheesecake girl I’d …

Europe Featured Literature Tourist Attraction Travelling

Orava Castle: Inside the Lair of a Vampire

by Runaway Britupdated on 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 …

Bratislava Europe Expat Life Featured History Tourist Attraction Travelling

A Day Trip to Devin Castle from Bratislava

by Runaway Briton 14 Comments on A Day Trip to Devin Castle from Bratislava

Autumn has arrived in Bratislava. Only last week I wore summer dresses and flip-flops, but this week it’s all scarves, winter coats and boots. When yesterday dawned cold but sunny, I went for a walk with friends in order to …

Sedlec Ossuary
Europe History Tourist Attraction Travelling

A Macabre Mass of Bones and Skulls at Sedlec Ossuary, Prague

by Runaway Britupdated on 16 Comments on A Macabre Mass of Bones and Skulls at Sedlec Ossuary, Prague

Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about Sedlec Ossuary – or, as it’s better known – Prague’s ‘Bone Church’; but I did know I wanted to visit it.

History of Sedlec Ossuary

The history of the ossuary is fascinating. …

Stockholm Ice Bar
Europe Featured Food and Drink Life in Sweden Swedish Climate Swedish Tourism Tourist Attraction

Stockholm ICEBAR: ‘The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway’

by Runaway Britupdated on 26 Comments on Stockholm ICEBAR: ‘The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway’

What is Stockholm’s ICEBAR like? Well, as you’d expect, it’s like walking into a giant freezer. A freezer with a bar, that is. A freezer full of animals elaborately carved into huge blocks of glistening ice.  A freezer where people …

Europe Featured Travelling United Kingdom

Pictures from the Cornish Coast

by Runaway Briton 7 Comments on Pictures from the Cornish Coast

Most of my summer was spent in Cornwall, a place that I grow to love more and more each time I visit. For this mid-week post I wanted to show you some of my favourite pictures. How I wish I …

Chocolate Museum, Köln
Europe Featured Food and Drink Tourist Attraction Travelling

Why You Should Visit the Chocolate Museum, Köln

by Runaway Britupdated on 30 Comments on Why You Should Visit the Chocolate Museum, Köln

I know that I don’t really need to tell you why you should visit a building full of chocolate, but I’ll tell you about the Köln chocolate museum anyway.

When I went to Köln (also known as Cologne) for a …

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