Ten thousand years ago, the land began to rise from the bed of the Baltic Sea, gradually giving birth to the Åland Islands – a glorious archipelago of nearly 6500 skerries, desolate rocks and islands of which only about eighty are inhabited. Today, this little piece of Paradise of unspoiled nature and fresh air located...
It was going to be one of those days, when the warmth of the sun is like a balsam, and where a light jacket is sufficient. We headed to the northernmost tip of Åland, and once we were taking a hike on the Troll Path trail, the finest view on the entire journey was suddenly...
There is hardly anything more Swedish than a traditional red cottage with white trim, and the beauty, for me, is in those quite rural towns or fishing villages dotting the coastline. In Stensjö, the time has stood still – the gravel road winds through a cluster of about 30 red dwelling houses, storehouses and barns...
The Baltic Sea doesn’t work its magic straightaway and, at the first glance, it may lack the glamour of other seas – there are no great mountain ranges rising above its shore, no volcanoes, and the waters are not the world’s warmest. But its beauty and temperament are subtler. Just off north of Gotland lies...
The legend says that when God was well near done with creating Scandinavia, he was left with a bit of superfluous material from the creation: a little water, earth, rifts, dales, fine-grained sand, and not least cliffs and large rocks. He threw it all into the heart of the Baltic Sea. Today, this little Danish...
For the whole generations the Baltic Sea was a world of trade, work and pleasures, hopes and tragedies, warfare and conflicts. People used to come there from the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, or by way of rivers – the Tornionjoki, Kemijoki, Neva, Daugava, Vistula or Oder. On offer, mystique waters,...
Intriguing, often quirky architecture, innovative garden and park concepts, ponds, restaurants, bars, cafés, nightclubs and services, and Turning Torso – an awe-inspiring 190-metre residential building and a magnificent display of a technological expertise. Västra Hamnen – this stylish seaside neighbourhood of Malmö is described as a City of Tomorrow. Rooftops and walls fitted with solar...
Elegant squares, fine museums and galleries, old buildings restored with a sense of style, open spaces, green parks, and activity on the streets, urban planning in a favor of cyclists and pedestrians – all it makes Copenhagen a city not to be missed. But what I really liked is its horizontal skyline, broken only by...
When the ice melted at the end of the last ice age about 11 thousand years ago, the Møns Klint (the Cliffs of Møn) emerged, with some of them rising over 100 metres vertically towards the sky. Our 175 km pilgrimage from Odense to this Denmark’s natural wonders was an actual hoop across few of...
When we hit the road in the first Episode Klara was only a year old and Laura was three. I thought about the challenge it was for them – the constant movement, early mornings, and different beds for each night. In the same time, it had been an amazing experience to observe them evolving into...