Sweden

Becky Ohlsen visits Sweden about twice a year for work and family. Her mother grew up in Uppsala, and holiday trips to her grandmother in Stockholm are an annual tradition. Becky loves spending time in Stockholm, especially during the winter holidays, but her favourite parts of the country are out in the middle of nowhere be it around Ales Stenar in the south or lost in the bleak expanses of Jämtland up north.
Becky has written about Scandinavia for Lonely Planet since 2004. She has also covered the Pacific Northwest, and parts of midwestern USA and Great Britain. Anna Kaminski has been dreaming of Scandinavia ever since she read Norse myths and legends as an impressionable five-year-old. A fan of the extreme north (and south), she has roamed the wilds of Siberia, Norway, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego before venturing north of Stockholm.
Anna feels lucky to write about northern Sweden which has seen her barrelling clown a deserted road under the midnight sun in a landscape reminiscent of her native Russia, dodging reindeer, and sampling delights such as reindeer, cloudberries and fermented herring ! Born in Norway, K Lundgren's great-great-grandfather sailed to the US on the Wisconsin in 1888 from southern Sweden, lending a personal twist to her research.
K will always have a soft spot for the cardamom buns and copper kettles of Flikorna Lundgren on the Kulla Peninsula, as well as the area around Kalmar, and thinks that visiting a lighthouse is a must - chilly dips in the sea, birdwatching, sharing shrimp, bread and wine with complete strangers - the essence of a Swedish summer.