Norrbotten

• A House in the Trees Is a House for Me

Who stays at the Treehotel? [Kent] says guests come from all over the world: China, New Zealand, England. A family from Spain will celebrate New Year's Eve in the Treehotel, far from the hullabaloo of noisemakers and fireworks. What will greet them instead is silence and darkness. A night for two at the Mirrorcube will cost you SEK 4200 ($633), and at the Bird's Nest sek 3800 ($573), which includes a breakfast buffet at [Britta Lindvall]'s Guesthouse (where you check in). The rooms have coffee- and teamakers, like most hotel rooms. And more rooms are in the plans. The idea for the hotel, which opened last summer, came to Kent and Britta Lindvall, the owners of Britta's Guesthouse, four years ago, after director Jonas Selberg Augustsen and his film crew shot the film The Tree Lover in Ha...

... there's Harads, a locality situated in Norrbotten County, with some 600 inhabitants. Brittas Pension...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 23 Num. 33, Septembre 2010

• California Girls

Madeleine FaIk started at the Ballet Academy of Gothenburg, and thanks to a grant from Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, pursued a career in dancing and acting, eventually ending up in Los Angeles. There she met the love of her life, Louis Garcia, "the world's best trick jump-roper". The pair has since traveled the world as "The Rebel Ropers", performing for Nike in Singapore, on the Today show, at several hotels in Las Vegas, and locally at the House of Blues. Always with a smile, the charming Swede flies through the air - spinning the rope or juggling clubs at the speed of light - while balancing on giant balls, negotiating hoops of fire, at times on stilts. An original member of "Girls on Stilts", she also works with the variety troupe "The Mums". Dancing also led to an impressive c...

... law studies in Los Angeles, the Kalix, Norrbotten native was offered a job in the entertainment busi...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 20 Num. 21, Juin 2007
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