sweden Archives - Runaway Brit

Stockholm ICEBAR: ‘The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway’

September 24, 2016September 24, 2016 Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Tourist Attraction ice bar, stockholm, sweden

What is Stockholm’s ICEBAR like? Well, as you'd expect, it’s like walking into a giant freezer. A freezer with a bar, that is. A freezer full of animals elaborately carved into huge blocks of glistening

ABBA Museum: Thank Sweden For The Music

August 6, 2016August 6, 2016 Europe, Featured, Music, Swedish Tourism Abba museum, Eurovision, stockholm, sweden, TBEX

What do the following artists have in common: Roxette, Ace of Base, The Cardigans, Europe, Avicii, Eric Prydz (remember that raunchy work-out video) Robyn, Swedish House Mafia (the clue is in the name), Neneh Cherry,

Five Reasons Why Stockholm is Best Experienced on Foot

August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling stockholm, sweden, tourism, transport, walking

As a participant of TBEX Stockholm I was very kindly given a 72-hour transport pass that works on trains, buses, and some boats across the city. This was perfect for enabling quick transport to the conference,

Loginn: a Floating Hotel in Stockholm

July 28, 2016September 13, 2016 Europe, Featured, History, Life in Sweden, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling Loginn Hotel, Maritime history, stockholm, sweden, unusual hotels

Spread across 14 islands the city of Stockholm has arisen from the sea, so it seems rather fitting to stay on the water rather than next to it when you visit the stunning Swedish capital. This

Weekend Break: Västerås

July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, History, Life in Sweden, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism sweden, västerås

If you are researching flights to Stockholm, you may well come across an airport called ‘Stockholm Västerås’, particularly if you are flying with love-it-or-hate-it airline, Ryanair. But, what you should know in this scenario is

Aurora Borealis: 7 Things To Know Before You Go

January 31, 2016March 28, 2016 Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Nature, Photography, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling arctic, arctic circle, aurora, aurora borealis, iceland, lapland, northern lights, northern lights apartments, porjus, sweden

Experiencing the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is on many people’s bucket list and, when seen, they offer a tantalising display of nature at her most beautiful. But, seeking the notoriously elusive aurora can be a

Summer’s Coming, and I’m Going to Europe!

May 2, 2015May 2, 2015 Europe, Featured, Plans, Travelling berlin, copenhagen, cornwall, denmark, england, estonia, europe, germany, hamburg, prague, stockholm, summer, summer getaways, sweden, tallinn, travel, uk, united kingdom, västerås

In June, heavy monsoon rains will saturate the streets of Mumbai, so I am doing what most other foreign teachers here do—leaving India for the summer. And what better place to go than Europe? In contrast

Around the World in 26 Letters: My Travel Alphabet

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 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

Why You Should Visit Stockholm in Winter

November 30, 2014December 13, 2015 Advice, Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling city break, five reasons to visit stockholm in winter, stockholm, stockholm city break, stockholm tourism, sweden, visit stockholm in winter, winter, winter break, winter tourism

Visiting Stockholm between October and May is a thought that sends shivers down the spines of many, but in my opinion it is the nicest time to visit. Although the city comes alive in the

My Top 5 Wow-Factor Destinations

September 28, 2014September 28, 2014 Asia, Europe, Featured, Nature, South America, Travelling arctic, argentina, brazil, colombia, destinations, falls, iceland, iguazu, Jökulsárlón, lapland, parque tayrona, perito moreno, spectacular, sweden

According to the dictionary, spectacular is an adjective that means ‘beautiful in a dramatic and eye-catching way’; synonyms of which are striking, picturesque, breathtaking, arresting, glorious, and my two favourites, sublime, and awesome. Awesome as

So Long, Sweden! I’m Going To Miss You.

July 14, 2014July 19, 2014 Europe, Featured, History, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling, Working Overseas expat, nature, snow, stockholm, sunset, sweden, travel, water

Four years ago I moved to Sweden; a country often associated with long, cold, snowy winters. But, little did I know that after the harsh winter Swedes are rewarded with beautiful summers where the sun

7 Great Ways To Spend Summer in Stockholm

June 21, 2014April 19, 2015 Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism best things to do in stockholm, europe, festival, fika, food, gröna lund, midsommar, rooftop, seven things to do in stockholm, skansen, spend summer in stockholm, stockholm, stockholm archipelago, stockholm tourist attractions, sweden, sweden national day, taste of stockholm, upplev mer, vaxholm, what to do in stockholm

Stockholm is a summer city; its leafy parks, rocky beaches, and swathes of Baltic water that swirl around the city’s 14 islands all seem to have been designed for long summer days where the sky

Finding History and Nature in Gorgeous Gotland

May 31, 2014May 31, 2014 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

Visby: Sweden’s Perfectly Preserved Medieval Town

May 10, 2014May 10, 2014 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

My Upcoming Summer Plans

March 30, 2014May 26, 2014 Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, Nature, Plans, Swedish Tourism, Travelling eating out, gothenburg, gotland, göteborg, 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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