Sweden Travel Podcast with Anton Lindqvist

society, culture, places, travel, documentary, education · EN-US

Travelling in Sweden means moving through a country of almost 100,000 lakes, from the flat or gently rolling lowlands of the south to the mountains and subarctic interior in the west and north. The show follows that contrast town by town, with attention to how the Baltic coast and the Danish Straits tie Sweden to the wider region. The programme ranges from Stockholm and Gothenburg to the Baltic island of Öland and the subarctic mining town of Kiruna. It also stops in places that reward returning: the lake landscape around Vänern, the forests of Småland, the old port of Sundsvall. Every location is chosen because it matters locally, not because it is a tourist headline. The show unfolds in ordinary time. He returns to a place in winter and again in the late spring light, so a stretch of coast or a town square accumulates memory. By the third visit, the subarctic north feels less distant and the southern lowlands more settled, and each season changes what the other left