västerås Archives - Runaway Brit

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

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

2010s Best Bits

January 1, 2011December 14, 2011 Asia, Life in Sweden, Teaching, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas baltic countries, cambodia, eskilstuna, europe the final countdown, eyjafjallajökull, gröna lund, helsinki, hong kong, iceland volcano, nha trang, partying, qatar airlines, riga, ryanair, saigon ink, serendipity beach, sheridans saigon, sihanoukville, skansen stockholm, stockholm, sweden, tallink silja line, tallinn, tattoo, västerås

What an awesome year this year was. In honour of a great year this blog post recalls some of my favourite moments of 2010 January We welcomed in the New Year with elated cries of

Need a place to stay? Check out these wacky hotels!!

September 25, 2010October 22, 2011 Asia, Life in Sweden, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling, Vietnam, Working Overseas accommodation, aeroplane hotel, crazy house, dalat, hostels, hotel jumbo stay, ice bar, ice hotel, jumbo jet hotel, langholmen prison, Långholmen, stockholm, strange hostels, sweden, utter hotel, utter inn, västerås, woodpecker hotel

Last weekend I went to prison. I was to spend the night in a cell at the infamous Långholmen Prison, Stockholm. The hallways were long and narrow with row after row of bolted and numbered doors harbouring

No Room at the Inn

September 3, 2010January 27, 2014 Life in Sweden stockholm, sweden, västerås

Whilst the picture above may raise a slight smile, it conveys the serious problem of Stockholm's housing shortage. Finding accommodation is Sweden is surprisingly difficult with most people having to join long queues in order

Välkommen till Västerås

August 10, 2010December 30, 2011 Life in Sweden, Travelling sweden, västerås

Welcome to Västerås: Sweden’s sixth largest city and the place that I will be calling home for the next year or so. The city is one of Sweden’s oldest cities and was the second largest