In Sweden, the coffee break, is a national pastime. It's so important that it even has it's very own word: FIKA.
Stockholm is often called the most appealing city in Scandinavia, and it's easy to see why.
Was this the capital of Finland or a portal into Dante's 9th Circle of Icy Hell? Surveying the frozen landscape, covered in snow, and the grey, godless sky, I couldn't be entirely sure.
It wasn't my idea of an ideal first night in a new country, but sometimes circumstances beyond your control, force you into situations you never expected to be in
The humble coastal town of Hermanus on South Africa's Western Cape is famous for one thing, and one thing only. It's the world's best place for land-based whale watching.