museum Archives - Runaway Brit

Čičmany: Slovakia’s Charming Gingerbread Houses

Bratislava, Europe, Expat, Featured, Tourist Attraction, Tradition cicmany, design, museum, Slovakia

Čičmany in central Slovakia comes straight from the pages of a fairy-tale book. The picturesque village sits in a verdant meadow surrounded by pine forests, but this is not what makes it so delightful. What's

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

Visiting the Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam

Childhood Memories, Europe, History, Travelling amsterdam, anne frank, europe, holland, holocaust, museum, tourism, travel

I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' as a young teenager and, like many other readers of the novel, discovered not a gritty tale of Holocaust hardship but a vibrant young girl dealing with the

A Slice of Welsh Life at St Fagans National History Museum

Europe, Tradition, Travelling, United Kingdom museum, national history, st fagans, uk, wales, welsh life

Standing in the shadow of Cardiff’s Millenium stadium, and only a stone’s throw from the uber-trendy Mermaid Quay bay area, nestles St Fagans National History Museum—a gem of a museum chronicling the history of Welsh

On TV at the Cusco Choco Museo

Food and Drink, Nature, South America, Travelling cacao, chocolate, chocomuseum, cusco, factory, museum, peru, plantation, south america

According to this article in TIME, Peruvian plantations are "...working to identify Peru with chocolate, the way Colombia is identified with coffee", to the extent that many of the coca plantations, for so long associated