Rostock
Rostock international port was bustling and busy on a balmy late summer’s evening as we arrived on the TT Line ferry from Trelleborg. We were back in Germany having sailed […]
Rostock international port was bustling and busy on a balmy late summer’s evening as we arrived on the TT Line ferry from Trelleborg. We were back in Germany having sailed […]
Heading west through Skåne, the road around the coast was open and breezy through arable farmland. In high summer it would have been glowing with golden crops of cereal and […]
A prosperous trading port by the early Middle Ages, Ystad squats on Sweden’s south coast and retains its original fortified structure of a ringed town with three gates – Vasterport, […]
History abounds in Sweden’s southern corners. Ancient burial sites, stone monuments and Viking meeting places mingle with medieval churches, castles and manor houses in Skåne County. Glimmingehus is ‘Sweden’s best-preserved medieval […]
Every Autumn around 500 million migratory birds pass over southern Sweden. Many of them are yearlings on their first long journey south. Small and lightweight swallows and willow warblers, weighing […]
Skåne is Sweden’s southernmost region and its most attractive, boasting white sandy beaches, long acres of rolling arable farmland, mysterious dark green forests, rocky coastlines and ancient stone monuments. It […]
Karlshamn is the historical site of emigration by the Swedish to settle in the New World. Many thousands of families left for the promise of a better life in America, […]
The grand naval town of Karlskrona owes its existence to its southern-most harbour which, unusually for Sweden, does not freeze in the long winter. After losing the Swedish Navy at […]
In the Stone Age, settlers from the Swedish mainland migrated to the island of Öland across the Kalmar Strait using an ice bridge, thought to be around 9000 – 7000 […]
Sweden’s most impenetrable castle sits on its own island at the coastal fortress town of Kalmar on the east coast. Built for defending the country’s border its legendary moment is […]