Hässleholm is a town in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden. It is a fairly new town, with only a little more than 100 years of history. Still, it has around 19.400 inhabitants and has used its position as a railway junction well. The railway initially attracted many industries to the area and manufacturing…
Rödeby is a locality in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden. It is located just a short distance north of the area’s main city, Karlskrona. The area is since 1974 a part of Karlskrona Municipality. Around 3.500 people have Rödeby as their home. Rödeby is a place with a lot of history, plenty of…
Skebokvarn is a small locality in the province of Södermanland in the eastern part of Sweden. It is a part of Flen Municipality in Södermanland County and has a population of around 200 inhabitants. This is a former train junction whose population started to decline when the trains ceased to stop there. Today it is…
Kristianstad is a town in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden. It is today the region’s fourth-largest locality with a population of around 41.300 inhabitants. This is a town that was once fortified and many of the fortifications are still standing. The area has been for centuries an important border area between Sweden and…
Kalmar is one of the more historically important cities in Sweden. Its location along the coast of the Baltic Sea in southwestern Sweden was important at a time when the border with Denmark was a bit closer than today. Kalmar is a part of the historical province of Småland and it is the seat of…
Ronneby is a locality in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden. It is the oldest town in the province and has a history of being a part of two countries. Established when the area was a part of Denmark, it lost its status as a town under Swedish rule. It is close to the…
Bromölla is a locality in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden. It is home to around 8.100 inhabitants as well as the old industrial manufacturer Ifö, known for their toilets. It is also famous for its fossil deposits, with finds of Plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous Period. These giant reptiles are today remembered with a…
We spent the January evening with my parents, eating a nice dinner and playing some board games. It was, indeed, one of those nice evenings that we have occasionally. The difference today was that the snowfall increased during the evening. Yes, it has been something close to a snowstorm the whole day. It has been…
How did we end up in the town of Halmstad and the province of Halland? Our summer of 2021 didn’t really start the way we had hoped it would. The pandemic had been going on for about a year and once we hoped for it to decline, our neighbor in Kista had some troubles in…
Today we will continue to look back at our travels last year. Our summer vacation in 2021 did include some interesting surprises. Not even the pandemic or a fire in our neighbor’s apartment could keep us from traveling. Exploring the West Coast of Sweden became our main objective, all the while we were enjoying the…
Katterjåkk (also spelled Katterjokk) is a tourist destination in the far north of Sweden, close to the border with Norway. It is known as a “turiststation” in Swedish, a place offering accommodation in the Swedish wilderness. It is run by Friluftfrämjandet, a non-profit organization organizing outdoor activities. The railway between Kiruna and Narvik goes through…
In northern Sweden, right next to the Torne River and the border with Finland, is the locality of Övertorneå. It is located in what is known as the Torne Valley and its name is Matarengi in the local language Meänkieli. This was also its former name in Swedish. Övertorneå has a population of around 1700…