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East By North | Norman Miller

The Zen meditation teacher is speaking softly as he explains the path to enlightenment but I am not understanding. Perhaps this is because he’s speaking in Swedish

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Favourite Hotels Outside Stockholm | Martin O'Brien | Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholm

Resist the lure of the Skargarden, the archipelago of islands sprinkled along Stockholm's coastline, and head inland, along the shores of Lake Malaren and into the country's unforgettable interior

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Gadding Around in Gothenburg | Norman Miller | Sweden, Stockholm, Gothenburg

In a recent opinion poll, over half of Sweden said they wanted to live in Gothenburg - hardly surprising for the country’s most cosmopolitan, walkable, fun-loving city

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Healthy living on Swedish Farms | Andrew Eames | Sweden, Stockholm, Gothenburg

There's something very familiar about Sweden. Its travel literature is like the publicity stills for Swallows and Amazons: the Movie, with wholesome pictures of apple-cheeked blondes

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Ice-Racing in Sweden | Andrew Eames

For a first-time spectator like me ice-racing seems like the creation of a delusional Mad Max scriptwriter

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Rafting on the Klaralven | Nigel Tisdall

It is remarkable how we will pay out good money so that others can give us arduous, even dangerous tasks. All along the river aspirant rafters were scampering around like panicking Noahs

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The Stockholm Archipelago | Kate Morris | Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholm

In the late nineteenth-century, the Archipelago was inhabited by remote farming, fishing, and hunting communities. August Strindberg and a group of writers and artists were among the first to rent cottages

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The Stockholm Archipelago | Dea Birkett | Sweden, Stockholm, Runo

In the winter, the brackish Baltic Sea freezes, and the only way out of Runo is a treacherous walk over the ice. But in the summer, a tiny boat-taxi took us from Stavanas on the mainland

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