Built on fourteen islands, Stockholm has been hailed as Venice of the North. Like Venice, it boasts magnificent buildings and reverberates with the echoes of centuries past. But there the comparison ends. Stockholm is unique, not only because of its architecture but also because of its foresight. All Scandinavian capitals offer a Green Map, many of the hotels are green, the cities invite to walking but it's to be understood there are also ample bike roads everywhere and biking is safe. Most eco-villages are located outside major urban areas, similar to Baskemölla along the southeastern coast of Sweden. Hammarby Sjöstad is the exception. Located in Stockholm city, planned in the 1990s and ultimately home to 35,000 residents, this is where urban utopia meets reality, ten minutes from the ...
Pontus Hultén, one of the world's most brilliant museum personalities, has decided to donate his private collection to Stockholm's Moderna Museet. Any contemporary art museum in the world would have been delighted to receive the donation, which includes approximately 700 works by Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Sam Francis, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Kasimir Malevitj, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol and others.
... those events carry in Copenhagen or Stockholm, but we can and will serve our own mix of experien...
Although O-Ringen isn't a world championship per se, it's been won by many elite orienteers - typically someone with a last name that sounds Swedish, Finnish or Norwegian. But some new countries have recently made it into the sport's top echelon. The best male orienteer in the world today is a Frenchman named Thierry Gueorgiou. The best female is Simone N'iggli-Luder of Switzerland. To reach that level, they've trained in Finland and Sweden, respectively. There's a lot to take in at O-Ringen, but the main attraction is, of course, the orienteering itself. As a first-timer, I was nervous on Day 1. Swedish terrain is very different from Texas terrain. It's much more detailed - full of complex rock formations and marshy depressions, areas of "bare" rock covered with moss. It's perfectly de...
... of Mjölby, about 3 hours southwest of Stockholm. My husband, Tom, and I traveled from Dallas to be...
...The young family moved to Stockholm. Sweden - a natural move for a man who often visit...
You've been to Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki. Maybe you took a cruise in the Baltic or a tour up the Norwegian fjord coaslline... but you're not quite ready for Greenland or Iceland. Consider then Sweden's and Finland's north - the Lapland region, which offers some staggering experiences with a day or two in the countries' capitals. Just in case you're not picking up your new car during a Jukkasjärvi-Kebnekajse adventure or happen to be related to a reindeer herder, here's an experience off the beaten track, in Finland. On my first night I'm in a glass igloo, which is unique to Kakslauttanen. Jussi realized guests in the ice igloos were torn between staying (relatively) warm inside and watching for the Northern Lights outside. His high-tech solution was to construct igloos of heate...
Meet Håkan Swahn, founder and majority owner of famed New York restaurant Aquavit. Swahn was relaxed and happy when we meet at his New York home in February this year. The flagship of his growing empire, Aquavit, has a solid place among America's three-star restaurants. And its management company, Townhouse Restaurant Group, recently opened Riingo, with the kitchen manned by former Aquavit-trainee Johan Svensson. My father was originally from Husqvarna, near Jönköping in Småland, and in the 1930s he worked moving furniture," Swahn related. "Sweden at the time had experienced an outbreak of tuberculosis. As the patients died, since their furniture could not be resold or stored, it had to be burned. One particular man had such nice furniture, my father and a colleague simply couldn't bur...
...It wasn't until attending the Stockholm School of Economics that Swahn began to both try n...
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