Travel blog by a global nomad
The innocent new spruce trees, barely clearing 5m in height hide a gruesome secret on this lonely stretch of rural road in northern Sweden… It is set about 5m back from the road, slightly hidden behind some saplings. A well worn foot trail leads from the roadside edge to the sign itself.Every day or so, [...]
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It had rained on and off for the last 7 days and it was forecast to rain for the next 7 days, but today, the sun was out, a mild wind blew, and the lake near where I am staying had flock of white blobs floating on the water at its east end.So with [...]
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The theme was Italian football, the food was Italian, but the entertainment was pure Swedish…
The sun was still high in the sky as we converged on a large barn-looking building for a Saturday night of festive fun, welcoming Spring to the Arctic north. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but it was something more [...]
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In an ideal globalised world, amongst the usual things one wishes for, I would wish for either
A little device that sits in my head and automatically translates everything someone says to me into English and vice versa. Failing that,
There was a common second language used globally.
Now it is true, many will say English is evolving [...]
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One of the fun things about working in Scandanavia is stumbling across all these ancient traditions which are the stuff of fairy tales and distant memories in my British-tainted memories. So, to travel through Oslo airport (as I have not made it into Oslo yet…), one is reminded that this is the land of goblins, [...]
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