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2010s Best Bits

Asia, Life in Sweden, Teaching, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas baltic countries, cambodia, eskilstuna, europe the final countdown, eyjafjallajökull, gröna lund, helsinki, hong kong, iceland volcano, nha trang, partying, qatar airlines, riga, ryanair, saigon ink, serendipity beach, sheridans saigon, sihanoukville, skansen stockholm, stockholm, sweden, tallink silja line, tallinn, tattoo, västerås

What an awesome year this year was. In honour of a great year this blog post recalls some of my favourite moments of 2010 January We welcomed in the New Year with elated cries of

The Baltic Journals #4. Tallinn’s Turrets and Towers

Europe, Travelling baltic countries, estonia, tallinn

On Thursday we said goodbye to Riga and headed to Tallinn, capital of Estonia. The journey took 4 ½ hours on a nice warm and comfortable bus. We arrived at our hostel which is right

The Baltic Journals #3. Amber

Travelling amber, baltic countries, latvia, riga

I have to confess that my knowledge of the Baltic countries is pretty limited. Embarrassingly it’s probably fair to say that if it wasn’t for the Eurovision Song Contest then I would never have even

The Baltic Journals #1. Arrival.

Travelling baltic countries, getting lost abroad, latvia, naughty squirrel hostel, riga, stockholm to riga, tallink silja line

It’s been a really long half term and I am absolutely exhausted. I am totally ready for a holiday and have been looking forward to my break in Riga for weeks. The ferry from Stockholm