Those with an appetite for cerebral detective drama will no doubt have become familiar in recent years with Kenneth Brannagh’s Wallander. Playing the part of the Swedish detective who gets far too emotionally involved in the suffering of crime victims for his own good, Brannagh and the rest of the crew have brought to our [...]
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Traveling from Jokkmokk, where we spent our first night, we met Helena Lanta of Sapmi Ren Och Vilt. Helena is descended from a Sami family (the nomadic indigenous people from this part of Northern Sweden), who have been herding Reindeer across the mountain ranges for many generations. Today her family still keep a small herd [...]
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Have you ever chosen a holiday purely as a result of reading a good book? Most novels have a single location in which most of the action is set and when we get absorbed into a compelling story we build up a picture in our minds of how that place looks. We imagine the streets, [...]
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I can safely say that in my five years of travelling to Sweden, and around Europe’s third largest country, I have never had a bad meal. The combination of fresh, local, seasonal and often ecologically sourced products, with gentle flavours and picture-perfect presentation has always left me wanting more. Whether it is an open sandwich [...]
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Ask people to name the world’s largest city and you may get many different answers. Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City and Manila may come up frequently in the list of global mega-cities but I suspect few people will think of Kiruna, an unremarkable Swedish town 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Things to do in [...]
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For this month’s Sunvil Supper Club, we’ve teamed up with the Swedish Tourist board to use one of their recipes to celebrate one of Sweden’s most famous culinary exports – the cinnamon bun. This humble sweet treat, more commonly known as kanelbulle in Sweden is a national favourite, and one that has been copied across [...]
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In these busy times when most of us don’t have the chance (or the inclination) to be ‘off the grid’ for more than a few days, there’s a growing demand for short wilderness breaks that are easy to reach and where all the activities on offer can be enjoyed without too much time spent travelling. [...]
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‘Washing and cooking facilities are primitive’. You would expect to see such a comment on a negative Tripadvisor review, but it might surprise you to find these words on promotional material written by the owners of a property. Yet this unorthodox approach is exactly how the Kolarbyn Eco-Lodge in Sweden is attempting to entice guests. [...]
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As the Scandinavia product manager at Sunvil, I am in the privileged position – along with my team – to travel to Sweden on a regular basis. It is a country that, ever since my first visit, has taken a firm hold on my heart, and a destination that keeps on giving and inspiring. The [...]
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Given its relatively small population Sweden has a surprising abundance of cultural treasures. This has been recognised in recent years by UNESCO who have awarded 14 Swedish sites with World Heritage status. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that most of these places are completely unknown even to those visitors who have made several [...]
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