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Falsterbo: the Swedish Riviera
By Maxine Sheppard If you’ve seen the Scandi-noir TV crime series The Bridge you’ll be familiar with the remarkable feat of engineering that links Sweden and Denmark across the Öresund strait. Like...
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Winter adventures in northern Sweden
As if the prospect of seeing the magical Northern Lights aren’t reason enough to make plans to head to northern Sweden in the winter, there are plenty of activities on offer for visitors beyond...
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10 Fabulous Photos of the Northern Lights
A magical night under the Arctic skies experiencing a multi-coloured display of the Northern Lights is high on many people’s bucket lists. For those fortunate enough to have seen them, the hype is more...
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Gotland – Sweden’s Holiday Island
The island of Gotland lies in the Baltic Sea and offers a relatively untouched island escape with plenty of natural and historic attractions. Sweden’s largest island and thought by some to be the...
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Utö – a Swedish island escape
The island of Utö is barely 50 km from the bustling centre of Stockholm, yet for those who escape to its tranquil shores, it feels as though it’s a world away. The 10 km-long narrow island has for...
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Winter Holidays in Swedish Lapland
The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, draw thousands of visitors to northern Sweden every year. Despite no guarantee of a sighting of what is without doubt one of nature’s most spectacular...
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Autumn escapes
This week may have seen the return of some brighter weather but, there is a distinctive chill in the air which tells us that autumn is on its way. As we start to pull out our jumpers and coats in the...
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Introducing the Art Suite designs for the 26th ICEHOTEL in Swedish Lapland
Every year we, at Sunvil, wait with bated breath for the ICEHOTEL to release the designs for their magical suites. The wait is now over and yet again we have been bowled over by the creativity and...
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Staying at the ICEHOTEL in Sweden
Since its humble beginnings in 1989, the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi has become one of the most unusual and iconic places in which to experience the Arctic winter. Each year it takes on a different form,...
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October’s Sunvil Supper Club: Skåne Kavring Bread (Rye Bread)
Despite the name and possibly even the bread, coming from Denmark, it has been baked in southern and western Sweden since the late Middle Ages. Kavring is baked, sold and eaten all year round. But the...
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Stockholm for free – 6 museums in the Swedish capital with no admission charge
Stockholm has long been regarded as one of Europe’s top city break destinations, thanks to its selection of top quality restaurants, its rich calendar of cultural events and its long summer nights....
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Öland – a very Swedish holiday island
It’s almost 100 miles long and in parts less than 5 miles wide. Öland has for many years been a popular holiday destination for Swedes, and its population of 25,000 swells substantially in the...
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ICEHOTEL 365 – the famous hotel becomes a year-round attraction
The ICEHOTEL will this year be celebrating its 27th edition. Just as every year since 1990, the building materials for the hotel will be harvested from the Torne river, and the hotel constructed in...
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An exciting glimpse of this year’s ICEHOTEL suites
Every year, artists from all over the world are drawn to the small Arctic village of Jukkasjärvi on the shores of the Torne River. The attraction is the magnetic pull of the ICEHOTEL, a world-famous...
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Introducing the ICEHOTEL Suites for 2017/18
Every winter when the snow has set on the ground, a new ICEHOTEL is created on the shore of the Torne river in Jukkasjärvi, Swedish Lapland using frozen ice harvested from the neighbouring waterway. It...
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