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Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

Asia, Beaches, Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, History, Japan, Life in India, Life in Sweden, Literature, Nature, Photography, South America, Swedish Tourism, Top Ten, Travelling army, asia, atacama desert, aurora, bolivia, bosnia, bucharest, caribbean, chile, china, colombia, dracula, edinburgh, estonia, europe, fuji, gotland, Greece, holi, iceland, iguassu, iguazu falls, india, isle of skye, istanbul, japan, Jökulsárlón, kleftiko, lapland, machu picchu, mary king close, mostar, Mumbai, new york city, northern lights, NYC, ogmore, ogmore beach, ogmore by sea, parque tayrona, peru, qatar airways, romania, rurrenabaque, san blas, scotland, skye, sri lanka, stari most, sweden, taj mahal, tallinn, terracotta warriors, udaipur, unawatuna, valparaiso, visby, wales, waterfalls, xi'an, yamuna river, zostel

I’ve been travelling the world, on-and-off, for almost 16 years—ever since an adventurous 4 week train journey took me through Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic into Romania back in the days when

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Finding History and Nature in Gorgeous Gotland

Europe, Featured, History, Life in Sweden, Nature, Photography, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling farö, gotland, högklint, museum, stones, sweden, viking

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

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Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

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

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My Upcoming Summer Plans

Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, Nature, Plans, Swedish Tourism, Travelling eating out, göteborg, gothenburg, gotland, kayak, macedonia, plans, restaurant, rooftop hiking, skopje, stockholm, sweden, thai food, travel, Upcoming Plans, visby

Now that the light is finally shining at the end of Sweden’s long, wintry tunnel, I am feeling the urge to climb out from under the thick duvet I have hidden under for the last

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