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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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Perfect Peaks. A #FriFotos Photo Essay

Asia, Nature, Photography, South America, Travelling, Vietnam andes, bolivia, chile, colombia, Frifotos, hong kong, la paz, machu picchu, mountain, mui ne, parque tayrona, peaks, peru, photo essay, photos, playa del duque, sapa, south america, teide, tenerife, the peak, vietnam, wales, wayna picchu

While looking through my photographs in order to participate in this week's #FriFotos, which has the theme of 'Peaks', I realised something. I have not spent nearly enough time in the mountains. I love mountains,

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What a Year! 2011 in Pictures

Life in Sweden, Nature, South America, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling aurora borealis, ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki, helsinki, machu picchu, northern lights, photo essay, photography, porjus, russia, south america, st.petersburg, sweden

It's the end of another year and with New Year's Eve just around the corner it's the time to reflect on the year that has gone before. 2011 was a good year. Living in Sweden

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Machu Picchu—the City in the Clouds

Nature, South America, Tradition, Travelling aguas calientes, chaska tours, cusco, inca architecture, machu picchu, natural wonders, ollantaytambo, peru, peru rail

Day Two of our Machu Picchu tour began at the unearthly time of 5am. Without a guide to tell us what time to be there we had decided to take the advice of numerous friends

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The Sacred Valley of the Incas

Nature, South America, Tradition, Travelling aguas calientes, chaska tours, cusco, incas, los rocas hostel, machu picchu, ollantaytambo, peru, pisac, sacred valley, temple

Any backpacker travelling around South America will inevitably end up on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu—it is the Mecca of the Gringo Trail. Many will opt to trek for a few days, and the

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