by Ian | Oct 22, 2020 | Sweden, The Dining Car
Lángos Gbg Every summer in the city of Gothenburg, a week-long festival takes place bringing together artists, musicians, culinary experts, weavers, and intellectuals for one of Scandinavia’s most popular cultural events of the year. To the dismay of the residents of...
by Ian | Nov 27, 2020 | Sweden
On the Trail of the Sqvader of Sundsvall In the 1870s, the town of Sundsvall, in Sweden’s Medelpad province, had a bit of a gossip problem. Located at the mouth of a bay that opens into the Gulf of Bothnia, in 1874 the village of Sundsvall had grown into one of the...
by Ian | Dec 21, 2020 | Sweden
The Darkest Day The train out of Umeå was over an hour late and the sun had been setting in northern Sweden well before 2 pm for many days. By the time I arrived in Luleå, though it was just the early evening, it felt like the darkest hours of nighttime and I was...
by Ian | Dec 23, 2020 | Sweden
The Musher Neo was the first to emerge from his cradle in the snow and stretch his snout toward the moon. Licking his lips, he let forth a howl to alert his pack that, though the sun would not rise above the horizon because of the solstice, the night was relenting...
