I am writing this as I zoom towards Paris on the Eurostar. My head is a mess as I try to recall as much schoolboy French as I can muster. After my English native tongue (and waving my hands about as a British Sign Language user) French is probably the foreign language I feel I know best. But after 5 years of secondary school rote sentence learning…Je parle…
Stockholm. The Swedish capital and home to superb architecture, great food and beautiful people! I explored the historical Gamla Stan, tried to be hip and happening in hip and happening Södermalm, wandered the rarefied streets of the Östermalm, strolled the Djurgården and sampled lots of great places to eat across this fantastic Scandinavian city. I took the free tour (as I always recommend), with a sweet, if a little hapless,…