The Castle Garden of Malmö – an urban oasis
Less than 10 minutes’ walk from Malmö’s Central Train Station and even closer to the city’s famous Lilla Torg medieval square, lies a little enclave of ecological heaven which is easy to miss if you don’t know it’s there. The Castle Garden, or Slottsträdgården, is an...
8 fabulous reasons to love Slovenia
When I booked my first flight to Slovenia a few years ago, it was quite simply because Ljubljana was the cheapest destination in mainland Europe that came up in my search. I was about to set off on a round-the-world backpacking trip and had no real idea where to...
Lilla Torg – medieval Malmö’s little square, in pictures
[easy-image-collage id=3326] ‘If you’re short on time, you’ve got to visit Lilla Torg first’, my fellow hotel guest advised, without hesitation, ‘it’s a beautiful little medieval square less than 15 minutes from here’. And I was indeed short on time. I had just...
From Fishermen to Fine Art – A Walk Around Old Stavanger in Norway
It’s an uncommonly warm and sunny September morning in Stavanger, Norway. The locals go about their daily tasks as visitors stroll around the harbour taking in the picture-postcard prettiness of it all. It’s not somewhere I had thought to explore, to be honest. It...
