I knew that Sweden was going to be expensive. Sweden taxes luxury items like alcohol, cosmetics, Ferraris, and eating out, heavily. To make matters worse the Swedish currency, called the kronor, is not the Euro, despite Sweden being in the EU since 1994. The kronor is not very big, but there are a lot of […]
I had heard many good things about Saltoluokta Fjällstation, a Swedish mountain lodge, located just outside of the Laponia World Heritage Site near the border with Norway. Not only is the scenery beautiful, but the 100 year old lodge is charming and isolated and they cook some of the best food around. In December I […]
When Amanda received a grant to do anthropological research in Northern Sweden I began mentally preparing for a long and very dark winter. Our first stop in Sweden was Stockholm, which is considered southern Sweden but is about as far north as Anchorage Alaska. When I would tell people that I would be living in […]