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Steve Vickers

Steve Vickers

British journalist Steve Vickers has researched and written more than 15 guidebooks across Europe and Asia. He’s written about Scandinavia for Rough Guides, The Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and many more, and has spent the past 12 years exploring Scandinavia in search of the perfect cinnamon bun. He’s married to a Swede (an actual Swedish person, not a root vegetable) and he speaks Swedish with an English accent.

Capsule hotel in Stockholm
Hotels, Hotels in Stockholm, Stockholm

A sneak peek at Stockholm’s first capsule hotel

For a small country in northern Europe, Sweden has some pretty unusual places to stay. There’s the Icehotel, of course,…

A guide to Swedish fashion
Shopping

A guide to Swedish fashion

Step off the plane in Sweden and it’ll hit you like a sack of potatoes: Swedes have style. Fashion is…

The Broccoli Tree in Sweden
Blog

The Swedish tree that grew big online

If there’s one thing Sweden has a lot of, it’s trees. There are 87 billion of the things dotted across…

Swedish fast food
Eating and drinking, Things to do in Sweden

Getting to grips with Swedish fast food

Drive through Sweden and you’ll see there’s no shortage of fast food restaurants. You won’t find all of the big…

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The airplane hostel in Stockholm
Places to stay in Sweden, Things to do in Sweden

The best hostels in Stockholm

There’s no getting around it: Stockholm is an expensive city. But there are plenty of cheap-ish places to stay. Book…

Second-hand Stockholm
Shopping, Stockholm

Second-hand Stockholm: where to go shopping

Stockholm isn’t all about grand department stores and pricey designer boutiques. There’s a thriving market for second-hand stuff…

Nybrogatan 38 does cheap breakfasts in Stockholm, Sweden
Eating and drinking, Stockholm

Where to eat breakfast in Stockholm

Stockholm’s cosy cafés do a roaring trade before lunch, luring in bleary-eyed customers with steaming-hot coffee and sugar-topped cinnamon buns….

Swedish fika is getting its own documentary
Blog, Eating and drinking

Swedish fika is getting its own documentary

A few years back, Swiss photographer Fabian Schmid fell in love with Sweden. Since then he’s road-tripped through the country…

Backpacking in Sweden
Outdoors, Things to do in Sweden

Backpacking in Sweden

Want to see Sweden on a teeny-tiny budget? Then bundle your clothes into a backpack and prepare for a big adventure….

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    • Denmark
      • Copenhagen
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      • Aarhus
      • Odense
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      • Helsinki
      • Porvoo
      • Turku
    • Greenland
    • Iceland
      • Reykjavík
    • Sweden
      • Stockholm
      • Gothenburg
      • Malmö
      • Lund
      • Swedish Lapland
      • Central Sweden
    • Norway
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      • Bergen
      • Northern Norway
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      • Trondheim
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