november-2010

People prefer fiction to fact,”
says Vivianne Jeppsson with
the slightest hint of a sigh.
A tour guide based in Ystad,
which lies on the south coast of Sweden just
an hour’s drive across the Øresund Bridge
from Copenhagen, she takes hundreds of
tourists around her home town each year.
She shows them the narrow streets and
half-timbered houses of the medieval city
centre. She points out the roses and
hollyhocks snaking up the walls of the
13th-century monastery. She walks them
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