Nairobi, April 30 -- One day you might find yourself standing at the platform of Tivoliparken in the small Swedish town of Kristianstad, looking across the railway line at this pub. You'll think that looks like a typical British bar. A good place to have a beer. And it is.

It's both a bar and hotel - guests checking in and out through the bar. Inside: dark wood, low lighting, that slightly serious pub mood. The kind of place raucous Liverpool fans would flood after a win.

There is beer. All manner of beer. Which is wasted on someone like me for I'm no beer person. I don't know my pilsners from my lagers. Beer, to me, is just beer.

Thankfully, there was the barman- Nicholas, a Swede with perfect English that sounded faintly British. He ...