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Harsprångsfallet is a former waterfall just south of Porjus in Jokkmokk Municipality. The waterfall is today blocked most of the year by the hydroelectric power plant Harsprånget, owned by electric company Vattenfall AB. The waterfall once had a height of 75 meters. Today you will instead see the 50-meter-tall embankment dam and a large mostly…
Krokek is a locality in Norrköping Municipality in the county of Östergötland. It lies along the northern shores of the bay Bråviken, which connects the area with the Baltic Sea. The locality is not only home to around 570 inhabitants, but just a few kilometers to the east is the Kolmården Wildlife Park. The name…
Krokeks Konvent is a former convent right at the border between the provinces of Södermanland and Östergötland. It has also been known as Vårfruklostret and was originally home to Franciscan monks. Today, it lies in Norrköping Municipality in the eastern part of Sweden. There are no longer any monks here, and the old church that…
Welcome to the Arctic Circle. It is here at Naisheden that you will find one of the few easily accessible markings of the line in Sweden. This is a rest area along Road E10 with a former inn. Nearby is also the former military airfield of Överkalix-Naishedens Flygfält. The area lies within Överkalix Municipality in…
Welcome to one of the crime capitals of Sweden. This is Ystad, the home of the fictional police officer Kurt Wallander. This town in southern Sweden has become famous due to the crime novels by Henning Mankell. In reality, this is a historical town with a harbor in the province of Skåne. With around 20.000…
2023 was the year that I found the perfect day trip from Stockholm Skavsta Airport. It was possible to fly to the Polish city of Gdansk in the morning and return in the evening. I had already used the possibility three for solo trips. That was before reading the news that Wizz Air was to…
After four solo visits to Gdańsk during the year I had finally convinced Little A to join me. With the daughter onboard, it didn’t take long before Susann also decided to join. Our father-daughter trip to Poland became a family trip. A family day trip. Yes, we left Sweden and Stockholm at Skavsta Airport in…
I really took the opportunity this summer to explore Gdansk. Not only during one visit, there were actually several of them. The first visit of the year was during a cold winter weekend. That was about to change during the summer and I discovered the possibility of going on day trips. That meant a morning…
There are plenty of waterfalls and rapids along Vildmarksvägen, the Swedish Wilderness Road. One, or rather two, of these are found at Brakkåfallet. This is a waterfall in two parts close to Stora Blåsjön in Strömsund Municipality in Jämtland County. For many Swedes, this is a place known from the movie about Dunderklumpen. This was…
Gaustafallet is an impressive waterfall just south of the Stekenjokk plateau along Vildmarksvägen, the Swedish Wilderness Road. It lies in Strömsund Municipality in the northern parts of Jämtland County. The Gauste River continues into a deep canyon after the waterfall. This waterfall has also been the filming location for a film based on a book…
Trappstegsforsen is one of the most well-known waterfalls along the tourist road Vildmarksvägen, the Swedish Wilderness Road, in northern Sweden. They are a part of the river Kultsjöån and lie in Vilhelmina Municipality in Västerbotten County, within the historical province of Lappland. The intensity of the rapids increases significantly during the spring and early summer…
Litsjöforsen is a waterfall and a rapid along the river Kultsjöån in the municipality of Vilhelmina in Västerbotten County. This is an area in the southernmost parts of the province of Lappland in northern Sweden. It lies along the well-known tourist road Vildmarksvägen, the Swedish Wilderness Road. During spring and early summer when the snow…