Beautiful foreign towns.
1. Sigtuna (Uppland, Sweden)
The oldest town in the country, the layout is the same as the Vikings had it. Think ruins, stones engraved with runes and dinky-toy houses alongside an elongated lake.
2. Molinaseca (Galicia, Spain)
This little town is tucked away in the plains of Galicia. Sit under cherry trees on the grassy riverbank and watch the river pass under perfectly preserved Roman bridges. Haunting violin music flows from the street cafes.
3. Stamford (Lincolnshire, England)
Stamford is a perfectly preserved 9th century town. Every slanted stone building leans against its neighbour and one gets the idea that if Mrs Smith decided to knock out a wall on one side of the town, the whole village would collapse like a row of dominoes.
4. Castiglione della Pescaia (Tuscany, Italy)
Feel like a real tourist after spending an afternoon searching for a castle before realising you’re already inside the castle. The imposing castle walls surround the entire medieval hilltop town. From there the landscape drops sharply to the Mediterranean Ocean.
5. Skagen (Jutland, Denmark)
Camp on the beach against the Kattegat, the strait that separates Denmark from Sweden. Enjoy the prefect Scandinavian summer weather, eat until 11 pm in the “late afternoon sun” on the beach (“fiskefrikadeller med rugbrød” is traditional) and then walk along the coast past the five lighthouses. It’s called the Land of Light because the quality of the sunlight is white and soft, and influenced an entire movement of Scandinavian impressionism.
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