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Right at the Arctic Circle lies the small locality of Juoksengi. Here in the province of Norrbotten, at the border with Finland in Northern Sweden, is a place that many would probably miss. That is unless this invisible line would have been found at its southern boundaries. Here the midnight sun and the polar night…
Lakeaharju is a hill in the forests of Vimpeli Municipality in the Southern Ostrobothnia Region of Western Finland. The hill’s peaks reach a height of 175 meters and it is home to a skiing center that was opened in 1976. The ski slopes and the hill offer a view of the lake Lappajärvi, a quite…
Skibotn is a village in northern Norway. It lies in the municipality of Storfjord in Troms County, right at the intersection between European Route E6 going through Norway and European Route E8 coming from Finland. In many ways, this is a gateway for visitors coming from Finland and Sweden and heading to the Arctic part…
Kime is a town in northern Finland, in the Lapland region. It is a town with an important harbor along the coast of the Gulf of Bothna. This is where the river Kemijoki enters the Baltic Sea. This is a monolingual part of Finland, with Finnish being the majority language for the around 19.300 inhabitants….
Ursvik is a district within Sundbyberg Municipality in Stockholm County. It is two districts, Stora Ursvik and Lilla Ursvik. In English that would be Ursvik Proper and Ursvik Lesser. Lilla Ursvik is mostly made up of villas or one-family homes while Stora Ursvik consists of a more modern urban planning with multi-family apartment buildings. Neighboring…
Tuuri is a village in Alavus Municipality in Western Finland, a part of the Southern Ostrobothnia Region. The village is home to a population of around 780 inhabitants and the second-largest department store in Finland – the Veljekset Keskinen. As a symbol for Tuuri, meaning “luck” in Finnish, a large horse shore stands next to…
Kalajoki is a town along the Finnish coast towards the Gulf of Bothnia, in the Northern Ostrobothnia Region of Finland. Kalajoki is home to around 12.400 inhabitants, and the area is almost unilingually Finnish-speaking. The town is probably best known for the nearby beach resort area of Kalajoen Hietasärkät, attracting visitors from near and far….
Bergamo is a city in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. The city with around 121.000 inhabitants became known as one of the worst epicenters in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is also a popular tourist destination that sometimes ends up in the shadows of the bigger destinations in northern Italy such as…
Alavus is a town in Western Finland and is the seat of the local municipality with the same name. The town and municipality is also known by its Swedish name Alavo and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia Region. However, the municipality’s population of around 10.800 is almost entirely Finnish-speaking. Around 4.000 of these people…
Drottningholm, with its royal palace, is one of the main attractions for visitors to Stockholm. This is a small locality with around 300 inhabitants on the island of Lovön in Ekerö Municipality, just to the west of the more central areas of Stockholm. The Drottningholm Palace is the official residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf…
A weekend in March without plans? That was what happened to me. I searched for a few options and eventually decided to head back to Warsaw for a new visit. This time it was a new solo trip with Susann and Little A staying in Sweden. I had found a cheap Thursday flight from Stockholm…
Last year I enjoyed quite a lot of day trips abroad. At the time it was still possible to fly from Stockholm Skavsta Airport to Gdansk, a route with two flights each day. It was a joy to be able to fly down in the morning and back home in the evening, something that had…