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Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

by Runaway Brit 6 Comments on Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

Swedes are travellers: roaming foreign lands is in their blood.

It is Viking blood, after all.

You’ll be hard pushed to travel far without running into a Swede or two. This is especially true of South East Asia, which …

Christiania: Copenhagen’s Controversial Commune

by Runaway Brit 4 Comments on Christiania: Copenhagen’s Controversial Commune

The colourful façades of Copenhagen’s fairy-tale buildings slowly give way to a row of crumbling shacks adorned with psychedelic graffiti. The area is deprived and the unmistakeable scent of marijuana perfumes the air. Clearly we are close.

My companion is …

Anundshög: Sweden’s largest Viking burial site

by Runaway Brit 7 Comments on Anundshög: Sweden’s largest Viking burial site

Being a bit of a History geek one of my favourite things about travelling is encountering ancient cultures and histories, and where better to be than Scandinavia—home of the Viking? 

Britons, in particular, will be very familiar with the …

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