In late March in the average year, the travel correspondent of The Independent is normally to be found at a waterside bar in Stockholm, often in the company of one or two members of Abba, commemorating St Catherine of Sweden. Each spring, her passing on 24 March 1381 is marked annually; sadly, she was not Bjorn again.
As Easter approaches, Simon Calder took an hour out of his far-from-busy schedule to tackle readers’ travel questions.
