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Denmark Builds Sea Outposts Not For War, But For Wind

Posted on 14 March 202114 March 2021by Marcel Burger

Building outposts far away from the mainland has always been done for projection of power, for military or economical gains, often at the costs of the people or the lands of what started as small settlements. The imperialism of the 19th and 20th century was all about that. Even nowadays, as China is turning atolls […]

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Dubrovnik – for kings, queens and entourage

Posted on 14 August 20199 May 2020by Marcel Burger

Approaching Dubrovnik from any direction and the first thought that might pop into your mind is – wow, this is like a place for kings, queens and their entourage. But even if you are less into gaming with thrones this coastal Croatian city will simply impress you. Not at least for the hefty money-making machine […]

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Rovinj is Ravishing

Posted on 8 August 20199 May 2020by Marcel Burger

A bit weary in the head after moving my body until 6 AM, the morning sun already casts light upon the historic facades of Rovinj. I finally head “home”. It is my second year at the gigantic dance festival that engulfs this Croatian town into Sea, Sun & Salsa for nine days in a row. […]

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Gdansk: Graceful at the Baltic Sea

Posted on 17 July 201931 July 2019by Marcel Burger

As a history buff I know Gdańsk mainly as the port city of resistance, of uprising. Standing strong the people of the Baltic Sea city first led in the fall of Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka in the 1970s. In the 1980s the Solidarność (Solidarity) movement that sprouted in the Lenin Shipyards pressed until the […]

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Swedes love nature. Here is why.

Posted on 15 July 201931 July 2019by Magdalena Pezdek and Marcel Burger

Did you know that 97 percent of Sweden is uninhabited? That means there is a lot of nature to protect. National parks and nature reserves cover a 10th of the Swedish land surface. One of them is Skuleskogen National Park on the Swedish High Coast, part of the Unesco World Heritage list. A perfect location […]

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The beauty of urbanlife in #Sweden. This is inside The beauty of urbanlife in #Sweden. This is inside the city of Uppsala, flanked by residential areas, a stone's throw away from a major shopping centre and only 15 minutes by bicycle from the central station. #uppsala #sweden #sverige #szwecja #suecia #landscape #landscapephotography #rurallife #uppland #gränbystaden #myuppsala #horses #farmland
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Almost sort of an anti-climax, but there on the ne Almost sort of an anti-climax, but there on the near horizon Poland's mighty Wisła (Vistula) river flows into the Bay of Gdańsk and beyond that to the Baltic Sea; after a journey of 1,047 km / 651 mls from its source in the mountains near the Slovakian border. #sobieszewo #gdansk #poland #tricity #trojmiasto #poland #pomoranian #pomorskie #polen #polska #nature #forest #mewiałacha #wisła #wisla #vistula #river #riverside
Beyond the valley the Tatras are towering up to al Beyond the valley the Tatras are towering up to almost 3,000 metres ASL. These lands are currently covered in snow again; this is a photo from last week's roadtrip. #małopolska #malopolska #poland #polska #polen #roadtrip #jablonka #jabłonka #landscape #tatromaniacy #tatras #tatramountains #tatry #rurallife #jestemgoralem #mountains #farmland
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Denmark opens up for tourists from 1 May, but only those who can show a #COVID19 vaccination pass. From 26 June also those who can proof they have had Corona or show a fresh negative Covid test can enter. #Denmark #tourism

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Swedish Public Health Organisation ignored even their own statistics and deliberately lied in public statements in Autumn about how #COVID19 was rapidly increasing and how Swedes were not following the restrictions, Swedish Radio reports today. #Sweden

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Both #AstraZeneca and #Pfizer vaccinations against #COVID19 less effective against the South African mutation, research shows, likely reason why 14 fully vaccinated people at a care home in #Norway got ill of Covid, after one got the South African variant. (NRK)

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In 2006 I left my family, friends and the security of a relatively steady editorial job in the Netherlands to move to Sweden, for love. A heartbreak later I’m still around – having crisscrossed like crazy through my new land to make a travel guide book, adding a new career as a language teacher at elementary and lower secondary schools, becoming a freelance Scandinavia correspondent & fixer for Belgian and Dutch media. From Sweden I pop across the Baltic Sea, often to Poland where I sometimes live and work from.

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