Just got back from Stockholm and I’ve got to say that Arlanda airport was a real eye-opener for me. Not only has it been declared an official ‘Love Airport’, it is a home to a selection of very weird products. There are the ‘Plopp‘ and ‘Japp‘ chocolate bars – one sounding unappetising, the other a [...]

I’ve already had one trip canned this year thanks to Eyjafjallajokull, a.k.a. that volcano in Iceland. A little two-week jaunt through Iraqi Kurdistan that didn’t get off the ground because I couldn’t get off the ground either. Easyjet refunded the cost of my flight to Istanbul. But I had to wear the cost of the [...]