HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND DESTINATIONS REVIEWED AT THE SPEED OF TRAVEL
Posted in Europe, Hotel, Sweden, Swedish countryside on Mar 5th, 2011
Q: What is it? A: The first five-star hotel in Sweden that perches on a mountain top. What the 1,420 meter high Are Mountain, (by Swedes referred to as Åreskutan), looks like from room #502 at the Copperhill Mountain Lodge, reasonably early in the morning. Nice! A well equipped room if you happen to like [...]
Posted in Europe, Restaurant, Sweden, Swedish countryside, Top rated restaurants on Sep 28th, 2009
Finally, a place where you can get fantastic food in the Stockholm archipelago! I sat at the the long table, (second chair from the camera), and just enjoyed myself. The time was 6:34 in the morning. Any words necessary? Hardly. This is what it looks like from the seaside. The red building is the Fejans [...]
Posted in Europe, Hotel, Sweden, Swedish countryside on Aug 23rd, 2009
Room #106 is one of the larger rooms in the Sigtuna Stadshotell. It’s actually a corner room, one of those you’ll get if you are willing to pay for a seaview. Left: The ”Lamino” chair. Designed by Yngve Ekström for Swedese in 1956, voted Swedish furniture piece of the century in 1999. In #106 it [...]
Posted in Europe, Restaurant, Sweden, Swedish countryside, Top rated restaurants on Apr 10th, 2009
I believe that this table has the potential to attract a lot of German guests. How exotic! To eat under a moose’s head. Thankfully enough this restaurant has other qualities… Translation of feel-good message: ”In a home where love is given, happiness will live and all will enjoy”. It rhymes in Swedish. The interior is [...]
Posted in Europe, Sweden, Swedish countryside on Nov 8th, 2008
The Grythyttan Inn, in the northwest of Bergslagen, Sweden. Gosh! Soon it has been around for 369 years! The Västra Bergvägen of Grythyttan. The entrance to the inn itself is just around the corner to the left. It’s amazing what an old inn can do. The story in short: In 1640 the county govenor by [...]