17th June 2011 Stockholm/Hudiksvall Matt and I have been in Sweden now for a week, arrived last Thursday. It’s been a great week, really relaxing and we’ve even had time to catchup with family and friends on Skype, have a few sleep-ins and take in the beauty of the country. This is by far our favourite place so far, and somewhere I would not hesitate to come back to (and hope I do!!) in the future. We have spent the week with Robert, Jenny and little Irma ...

17th June 2011 Since our last post Matt and I have been very busy, we have visited Kazan, a Russian city with a beautiful Kremlin – the most beautiful piece of architecture I have seen yet, visited a county festival in Suzdal where we drank mead (a honey wine) and enjoyed the festival atmosphere. Sudzal is a gorgeous historic countryside town with as many churches as people (I read this somewhere). We also visited the bustling Moscow with the Red Square, St ...