Alnwick Castle

Statue in Alnwick Castle

England 2016 part II - the story of a British town being in war with Russia for 100 years

August 15th 2016
The strange history of Berwick-upon-Tweed The main purpose with our visit in England on this trip was to hike the Hadrian's Wall Path. After finishing that we had a few days over and here we are going to write a little about how we spent those. . We didn't have any plans for the remain ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

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We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info