24 September 2024
Preparing for a tour round Karlstad’s Brigade Museum (Brigadmuseum), marking Sweden’s journey through the Cold War, from 1945 to 1991, you’re not expecting to be confronted […]
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23 August 2024
When I said I’d be spending a night in Trollhättan, a former industrial city at the drainpipe end of Vänern, Sweden’s largest lake, people just looked […]
31 July 2024
Christian Nielsen packs his dog and foldable bike for a short break exploring the Nationaal Park Oosterschelde (NPO), the “largest and wettest” nature reserve in the Netherlands. Just a […]
4 June 2024
The weekend is approaching. You’ve got itchy feet but don’t fancy crowded capitals. What are the options? Aachen, Maastricht, Liège, Hasselt, Eupen? Under two hour’s drive […]
5 March 2024
Five local lads in occupied Luxembourg refused a conscription order to fight for the Germans in World War Two. They went into hiding in a home-made […]
26 September 2023
Mandatory carbon emissions reporting has either been introduced or soon will be in major travel markets around the world. As from next year, the European Union […]
31 August 2023
An oft-quoted thing about Australian multiculturalism is that Melbourne has the third-biggest Greek-speaking population after Athens and Thessaloniki. If true, it would be quite a claim. […]
25 April 2023
As Australians and New Zealanders mark the solemn ANZAC Day1 tradition on 25 April, Christian Nielsen explores the trenches of WWI through the prism of war […]
1 February 2023
As Belgians hunker down in chilly houses, their living standards crushed by mounting energy and mortgage costs, could quaint café customs be rekindled for the modern […]
29 November 2022
Don’t let feelings, friendships and other fundamentals of wellbeing be overshadowed by the practical details of relocating Bags packed. Worldly possessions boxed, labelled and ready for […]
2 August 2022
What’s in a name? Philosophers and keen linguists would have a field day on the word ‘Skagen’. To Swedes, it triggers a Pavlovian response as the […]
14 July 2022
Blueberry-picking, free-camping, forest-trekking… this is the blissful image we have of Swedish summer holidays. Deadly diseases caught from tiny arachnids doesn’t fit this dream picture. And […]
31 March 2022
We feed coordinates into a satnav or phone app and let it do all the hard work. It works beautifully… until it shuts down. Then what? […]
11 March 2022
It looks like it. Back in the flesh and with a palpable post-Covid vim, Ostend Film Festival (FFO) kicked off last week with a rich programme […]
3 March 2022
Though it might not be the first place you would look for a burst of fresh air or a spot of tourism, Brussels Cemetery has a […]
11 February 2022
There are some real-life travel stories you want to write. Others you just have to write as catharsis to the author or caveat to the reader. […]
