Swedish Climate Archives

Stockholm ICEBAR: ‘The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway’

Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Tourist Attraction ice bar, stockholm, sweden

What is Stockholm’s ICEBAR like? Well, as you'd expect, it’s like walking into a giant freezer. A freezer with a bar, that is. A freezer full of animals elaborately carved into huge blocks of glistening

Five Reasons Why Stockholm is Best Experienced on Foot

Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling stockholm, sweden, tourism, transport, walking

As a participant of TBEX Stockholm I was very kindly given a 72-hour transport pass that works on trains, buses, and some boats across the city. This was perfect for enabling quick transport to the conference,

Aurora Borealis: 7 Things To Know Before You Go

Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Nature, Photography, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling arctic, arctic circle, aurora, aurora borealis, iceland, lapland, northern lights, northern lights apartments, porjus, sweden

Experiencing the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is on many people’s bucket list and, when seen, they offer a tantalising display of nature at her most beautiful. But, seeking the notoriously elusive aurora can be a

Why You Should Visit Stockholm in Winter

Advice, Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling city break, five reasons to visit stockholm in winter, stockholm, stockholm city break, stockholm tourism, sweden, visit stockholm in winter, winter, winter break, winter tourism

Visiting Stockholm between October and May is a thought that sends shivers down the spines of many, but in my opinion it is the nicest time to visit. Although the city comes alive in the

So Long, Sweden! I’m Going To Miss You.

Europe, Featured, History, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism, Travelling, Working Overseas expat, nature, snow, stockholm, sunset, sweden, travel, water

Four years ago I moved to Sweden; a country often associated with long, cold, snowy winters. But, little did I know that after the harsh winter Swedes are rewarded with beautiful summers where the sun

7 Great Ways To Spend Summer in Stockholm

Europe, Featured, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish History, Swedish Tourism best things to do in stockholm, europe, festival, fika, food, gröna lund, midsommar, rooftop, seven things to do in stockholm, skansen, spend summer in stockholm, stockholm, stockholm archipelago, stockholm tourist attractions, sweden, sweden national day, taste of stockholm, upplev mer, vaxholm, what to do in stockholm

Stockholm is a summer city; its leafy parks, rocky beaches, and swathes of Baltic water that swirl around the city’s 14 islands all seem to have been designed for long summer days where the sky

Stockholm Winter Blues. Or, What Happens When the Snow Doesn’t Come.

Europe, Life in Sweden, Nature, Swedish Climate, Travelling cold, miserable, stockholm, sweden, weather, winter

Stockholm is a truly stunning city; that much has been established by pretty much any traveller to set foot on the cobbled stones of the Old Town. In the short summer months, boats chug across sparkling

The Highs and Lows of Searching for the Northern Lights

Europe, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling arctic circle, aurora, aurora borealis, iceland, lapland, northern lights, northern lights apartments, porjus, sweden, swedish lapland

"An obsession consumed me, and the more I saw, the more I wanted"Relentless blasts of icy wind grasped at the exposed skin of my cheeks, the only flesh not covered in layers of wool and

Dogsledding in Lapland with Arctic Husky Adventures

Europe, Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Nature, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling adventure, arctic, arctic circle, dogsledding, husky, jokkmokk, lapland, sweden

A memorable journey is often more about the people you meet than the things you see, and when I went dogsledding with Arctic Husky Adventures in Jokkmokk, Swedish Lapland, last week I met quite possibly

What a Year! 2011 in Pictures

Life in Sweden, Nature, South America, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling aurora borealis, ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki, helsinki, machu picchu, northern lights, photo essay, photography, porjus, russia, south america, st.petersburg, sweden

It's the end of another year and with New Year's Eve just around the corner it's the time to reflect on the year that has gone before. 2011 was a good year. Living in Sweden

Valborg – Sweden Welcomes the Spring

Europe, Life in Sweden, Partying, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling bonfire, bonfire night, europe, fireworks, partying, spring, st walpurgia, sweden, valborg, valborgsmässoafton, walpurgis night

In Britain, Bonfire Night conjures up childhood memories of sheltering from the driving November rain, eating jacket potatoes while effigies, or 'guys', burn on a huge bonfire. Overhead, fireworks crackle with the acrid smell of

Spring Fever

Europe, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Travelling europe, spring, sweden, swedish weather

It has been a long and cold winter in Sweden. After a very short Autumn, it started snowing in October and powdered snow lay on the ground until March. The temperature remained below zero for

The Arctic Journals #3 Cross-Country Skiing

Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling cross-country skiing, lapland, porjus, skiing, sweden, swedish countryside, swedish lapland

There are two things that I have always disliked: sport and being cold. For this reason I have never understood why people want to go skiing. Skiing holidays baffle me, why would anybody pay a

The Arctic Journals #2 Northern Lights Apartments

Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism, Travelling lapland, northern lights apartments, porjus, sweden, swedish lapland

We were met on the road by Patricia Cowern, owner of the Northern Lights Apartments and Arctic-Color gallery in Porjus, who greeted us warmly and led the way to our cabin. The complex comprises of

Snow Days

Childhood Memories, Life in Sweden, School, Swedish Climate, Teaching europe, school, snow, snow day, sweden, teaching

Anybody who has attended or worked in a school in the UK will know how exciting it is when the winter brings the first snow, not so much because we love snow but because of

Snow Joke

Childhood Memories, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate europe, snow, sweden, swedish climate, weather

I apologise that so many of my posts are weather related at the moment and hope that you'll excuse me as a) I'm British so talking about the weather is what we do and b)

Visiting Friends

Friends and Family, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Swedish Tourism skansen, snow, sweden, swedish winter

This weekend Rhoda—my very good friend from college—came to visit me in Sweden. It is always great to see a familiar face from home when you are living in a foreign country; over the 4

Hazy Shade of Winter

Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate snow, snow in sweden, sweden, swedish winter, winter clothing

But look around, leaves are brown And the sky is a hazy shade of winter Apologies for my second seasonal post following so quickly after Autumn Daze but little did I know last week when I

Autumn Daze

Japan, Life in Sweden, Swedish Climate, Travelling asia, autumn, autumn days, autumn in japan, autumn in sweden, japan, sweden, vietnam

As I walked home from school the other day, the trees shedding their leaves like confetti around me, I looked down to see something that I haven't seen for over three years. Lying at my