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I recently had the opportunity to visit Stockholm and Skåne in Sweden, two places I had yet to discover and was very much looking forward to seeing. Travelling with my colleague Rachel, we departed the UK on a Sunday evening flight to Stockholm Arlanda with Scandinavian Airlines.
I recently visited the Azores on a fam trip. There were 9 people in the group. We flew from London Gatwick to Ponta Delgada with Sata International and stayed at the Hotel Royal Garden in Ponta Delgada for 1 night. We were up very early the next
Last Christmas I was invited to spend a few days in Gothenburg, and join in with the annual Lucia and Christmas celebrations. The Lucia tradition is an important event is the Swedish calendar as it marks the being of Christmas their festivities. Each year Gothenburg chooses a
I have been travelling to the Azores archipelago, as part of my job, for the last nine years and although I have witnessed many changes – a new marina; new hotels; an indoor shopping centre; new highways and more recently the first ten-pin bowling alley – I
Mystical, remote and windy – these are the adjectives that sprang to mind when I was invited on a trip to these little-known specks in the Atlantic Ocean, located midway between the Shetlands and Iceland. Still relatively undiscovered by the UK tourist, the Faroes are not for
Thursday 15th April was our day for visiting Vesuvius. We drove the hire car up the volcano’s flank as far as we could go and then walked up a steep path towards the crater rim. The clouds drifted away, the sun appeared briefly and in the distance
The Azores, a group of nine small islands in the middle of the Atlantic, are surely amongst Europe’s finest hidden gems. In a packed three days in May, I was able to sample enough of what these beautiful, green islands have to offer to make me want
I was invited to speak at a conference concerning tourism development in the Faroe Islands. I had met one of the senior managers of the Faroe Islands’ tourist office when I was speaking at a conference in the Azores. Sunvil is the largest operator to the Azores
When I heard that ATOP (Association of Tour Operators to Portugal) were offering a FAM trip to the Alentejo, I jumped at the opportunity. A lot of what you hear about Portugal is the Algarve and the coastal resorts, so I was intrigued to know what the