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333 years underwater – Stockholm’s Vasa Museum
Sweden’s most visited tourist attraction is a museum with just one exhibit. How does something so simple draw such large crowds? Well, it’s one special artefact. The Vasa Museum, situated on Stockholm’s Djurgården island, is home to the world’s only … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, History, Photography, Scuba diving, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
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Skansen, the world’s oldest open air museum – Stockholm
National history museums are often high on my ‘must see’ list when visiting a country for the first time. They are the perfect place to learn about the local culture, both from the artefacts on display and the displays themselves: what a people … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, History, Museums, Photography, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
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Artà and Ses Païsses – Medieval and Bronze Age Mallorca
The town of Artà lies nestled in a valley in the rural north east of Mallorca. It is not easily accessible without your own transport and as a result has remained largely untouched by tourism despite the treasures it has … Continue reading
Roman Ruins and Medieval Walls – Alcúdia, Mallorca a town full of history
Alcúdia, just in land from the north coast of Mallorca, is a history lover’s dream. The atmospheric, winding streets of the old town are a great place to lose yourself, camera in hand, amidst the higgledy-piggledy, colourful architecture; every crossroads opening up … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcúdia, Archaeology, History, Mallorca, Photography, Travel
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Understanding Amsterdam – a visit to the Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam. It is hard to distil any city to its essence, more so when it has more than one story to tell, when there is more than one truth. To some, Amsterdam is a twee tourist destination of clogs and tulips … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, History, Photography, Rijksmuseum, Travel
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Pictish stones and sacred wells – the secrets of Scotland’s Black Isle
The Black Isle is neither an island nor black. The peninsula lies 10 miles north of Inverness, with the waters of the Cromarty Firth to one side and the Moray Firth to the other. For a small, sparsely populated place it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Cromarty, History, Photography, Picts, Rosemarkie, Scotland
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Surrounded by stones – Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
First, the facts. At 104 metres in diameter the Ring of Brodgar is the third largest circle of its kind in Great Britain. It is so large that it is hard to fit all of the 27 surviving stones in … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, History, Orkney, Photography, Ring of Brodgar, Scotland, Travel
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Ancient Orkney – Skara Brae, Broch of Gurness and Maeshowe
Before construction of the pyramids began on the plains of Giza, before the first monolith was raised at Stonehenge, a small community of people were living in an interconnected series of stone walled buildings on a spit of land overlooking the … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, History, Orkney, Photography, Scotland, Travel
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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney – Scotland’s Viking Church
Orkney is truly remote. A flight from Edinburgh or Glasgow takes an hour, the ferry from Aberdeen six hours. The shortest crossings are by ferry from Gills Bay or Scrabster on the far north coast of the mainland, an hour … Continue reading
