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David Hockney at Louisiana - contemporary art museum Copenhagen - Copenhagen for Art Lovers

Copenhagen for Art Lovers

Madeleine Morrow

What to see and where to go Copenhagen boasts a multitude of museums and galleries that will thrill art lovers ...

Bunch of wilds flowers against a red wood house in Sweden at midsummer

Discover Sweden’s Divine Dalarna

Jenny McGee

Take a train from Stockholm’s central station and within an easy two and a half hours’ journey time, you’ll arrive in Sweden’s heartland, Dalarna (The Dales). Stretching from Avesta in the south to the Norwegian border, 350 kilometres north, this beautiful region offers the opportunity to discover the essence of Sweden and the source of much of the country’s global appeal.

Two guides dressed as Vikings at the Viking farm recreation called Gunnes Gard

In search of Sweden’s Vikings.

Jenny McGee

Sweden is a big country. A land of rock, deep forests, rivers, lakes and seemingly endless coastline, and it’s from this landscape that Sweden’s Vikings emerged. Part farmer, part pirate, slave traders and warriors, they used their navigation skills and access to explore Eastern Europe’s rivers