Sweden

Jukkasjärvi Church

The Icehotel is beautiful but as it’s rebuilt every year, it isn’t especially historic. To see something truly old, head…

There are few hotels on earth that generate as much publicity as the Icehotel. Built entirely from frozen water, it’s…

Heaven for aurora spotters

Cheap and cheerful
Our score: 8/10

British-style pub
Our score: 7/10

Arctic flavours
Our score: 7/10

The place to fika
Our score: 8/10

You don’t have to travel far from the industrial sprawl of Kiruna and its gigantic iron-ore mine to arrive in…

For a deeper understanding of Kiruna’s problems (and we mean much deeper), it’s worth joining a guided tour down into…

It’s natural that the people of Kiruna might want to let off a bit of steam now and then. After all, many will have spent their…