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The Arctic Circle – Winter’s Disneyland
I have never been to Disneyland but I imagine that it is a little like the Arctic Circle in December. Manic children, frazzled parents, staff in costume, a babel of languages. Just outside the town of Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Finland, Lapland, Photography, Travel, Winter
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The mask-maker of Bangkok
Twelve years ago, the back streets of Bangkok. We are somewhere near the river taxi dock for Wat Phra Kaew, and very far from home. It is early but already the heat and the humidity are high. I feel a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Bangkok, Photography, Thailand, Travel, Writing
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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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Vintage Fun at Gröna Lund, Stockholm’s city centre amusement park
It had been a cultural morning, a stroll around Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s old town, followed by a visit to contemporary photography gallery Fotografiska in the Södermalm district. The gallery is on the waterfront and, as we stepped out in to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Amusement Parks, Photography, Rollercoasters, Stockholm, Sweden, Theme Parks, Travel
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Subterranean Sweden – Stockholm’s subway art
Stockholm is a beautiful city, famed for its open spaces, waterways and islands. So my travelling companions were unsurprisingly shocked when top of my itinerary for our long weekend in the Swedish capital was a tour of its underground train … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Art, Photography, Stockholm, Subway art, Sweden, Travel
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Exploring downtown Helsinki and Suomenlinna – a belated Happy Birthday to Finland
On the 6th of December Finland celebrated 100 years as an independent nation and, in honour of the country’s centenary, I thought it high time to return and complete the record of our adventures at the end of August. After … Continue reading
Coveting Finnish design classics – Viikki district, Helsinki
Helsinki is an architecture lover’s dream. There are modernist buildings, functionalist buildings, examples of the Neo-classical, the Byzantine-Russian and the greatest number of Art Nouveau buildings in Northern Europe. And it’s not just design classics of the past that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Design, Finland, Photography, Travel
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Harnessing the power of nature – a visit to Helsinki’s Museum of Technology
Helsinki’s Museum of Technology is, appropriately, housed in an old water treatment plant in the city’s Viikki district. Here the Vanhankaupunginlahti rapids thunder their way towards the sea as the river widens in to an estuary. It is the perfect place … Continue reading
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Celebrating Finnish Nature Day – Viikki district, Helsinki
2017 sees Finland celebrate its 100th birthday and the year is being marked by a series of national events. 100 days ahead of the 100th independence day it was Nature Day’s turn in the celebratory calendar and we happened to … Continue reading
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