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A guide to reindeer stew and floating saunas in Oslo

December 22, 202489 Views

Oslo has been my adopted home for 20 years. I am from Paris originally and have been working at Reuters for 15 years, where I’ve covered news ranging from the Norwegian oil and gas industry to its $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund to the annual awarding of the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian capital, which historically played second fiddle to its bigger, more glamorous cousins Copenhagen and Stockholm, now has excellent restaurants and world-class museums, such as a recently opened one dedicated to Edvard Munch and the National Museum, which has moved to a new, larger home. Still, nature is never far. Here are few insider tips: Getting around: Oslo is a compact city, so I walk or cycle everywhere. If I need to go a little further afield, I will jump on a tram, bus...

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Sweden survey reveals craziest travel mishaps

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 13, 202490 Views

8% admit ending up in the wrong destination Much like the iconic mix-ups in the beloved Christmas film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, where characters hilariously find themselves in the wrong places, some travellers have shared their own tales of finding themselves unintentionally at the wrong destination. As we approach the holiday season, these anecdotes serve as both cautionary and comical reminders to double-check those travel details! According to a recent YouGov survey conducted by Visit Sweden, 8% of the respondents admitted to ending up in the wrong destination while travelling. Out of 80 million travellers identified as dreaming of visiting Sweden, nearly 8 million might accidentally find themselves in a different Sweden—not the original one. Oops! He...

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Sweden becomes first country in the world to apply for Trademark

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

November 12, 2024174 Views

The application comes as Visit Sweden looks to prevent travel mix-ups among tourists Sweden is making a bold (and slightly cheeky) move to trademark its name, putting an end to travel mix-ups. The home of cinnamon rolls and fika has applied to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to protect its name from international duplicates that might confuse unsuspecting travellers who want to experience the original Sweden and is calling on people around the world to support its application via an online petition. The trademark application addresses a common problem travellers face with name-alike locations – with eight places around the world called "Sweden", multiple Germanys, dozens of Americas, and 34 Londons globally, it's not hard to see why a little brand clarity...

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Champagne galore! Shipwreck gives Polish divers something to celebrate

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

July 29, 2024203 Views

Polish divers have found a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden laden with bottles of champagne, a "very exclusive" cargo they say may have been destined for the tsar of Russia before the vessel sank. Objects found in a 19th-century shipwreck filled with bottles of champagne and mineral water that was discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea by a team of Polish divers, are pictured approximately 20 nautical miles off the island of Oland, Sweden, July 12, 2024. Marek Cacaj/Handout via REUTERS They discovered the wreck, which also contains porcelain and bottles of mineral water, around 60 metres (66 yards) below the surface of the Baltic Sea, but say they would need permission from Swedish authorities to bring the cargo to shore. "This ship is almost whole there, it is ...

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“We are Sweden, not Switzerland”, tourist board wants to end confusion

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

October 25, 2023458 Views

People still get Sweden and Switzerland mixed up. Every year, 120,000 people google the question: "Are Sweden and Switzerland the same?". Even the most informed and powerful people on earth can't always tell the two countries apart; A world leader, the New York Stock Exchange, and a famous popstar have all experienced this. Determined to end the confusion once and for all, Sweden is now proposing actions. Night is falling over Saltouluokta Montain Station, Norrbottens län. Photo: Jonatan Stålhös/Image Bank Sweden A recent study commissioned by Visit Sweden uncovered that 50% of US respondents are not confident in their ability to decipher differences in Swedish and Swiss cultures. The confusion sometimes has greater implications: one in ten American respondents has admitted to booki...

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Sea level rise now menaces even a Viking bastion of uplifted land

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

October 17, 2022921 Views

About 1,000 years ago, a Viking woman named Ingrid built a wharf to load ships at a bay on the Swedish coast and commemorated the site with a looping runic inscription on a grey boulder. Today Ingrid’s harbour, surrounded by birch and pine trees, is high and dry, on land 5 metres (16 feet) above sea level and 20 kms (12 miles) inland from coastal Stockholm, on the Baltic Sea. Land across much of the Nordic region has been rebounding since the end of the Ice Age about 12,000 years ago, as a heavy smothering of ice up to 3 km (1.9 miles) thick melted away. That rise should make the region an unlikely candidate to suffer problems from a global rise in ocean levels as seas warm and glaciers melt - a threat for low-lying nations and coastal cities around the world, from Shanghai to Mi...

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Giant Swedish Yule goat torched again after 5-year respite

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 18, 2021716 Views

A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle was set ablaze on Friday for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals illegally attempting to torch it and authorities scrambling to stop them. Police said they had arrested a man in his 40s who witnesses said had been acting suspiciously before the blaze in the early hours of Friday. A view of the frame of a giant straw Yule goat after it was set ablaze, rekindling a cat-and-mouse tradition between locals trying to burn it down and authorities trying to stop it, in Gavle, Sweden, December 17, 2021. Pernilla Wahlman/TT News Agency/via REUTERS The Gavle Yule goat, a 42-foot (12.8 metre) high statue made of wood and straw erected every year before Christmas, has become famous nationwide since one ...

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कड़क सर्दी में रहें आइस होटल में

UPENDRA SWAMI

February 7, 20211987 Views

यह केवल होटल नहीं है बल्कि अपने आप में एक कलाकृति है। यहां बर्फ के एक से बढ़कर एक अनूठे शिल्प गढ़े जाते हैं। ऐसे शिल्प, जिनके साथ आप रहते हैं, रात गुजारते हैं। पहले यह अनूठा होटल केवल सर्दी के मौसम में ही खुलता था। लेकिन अब आप पूरे साल यहां टिक सकते हैं तापमान शून्य से कई डिग्री नीचे हो और मैं आपको कहूं कि आज की रात जरा ऐसे होटल में बिताई जाए जिसमें सब तरफ बर्फ की दीवारें हों, और सोने के लिए बिस्तर भी बर्फ की सिल्लियों का बना हो तो आप या तो मुझे पागल मानेंगे या फिर आप समझेंगे कि मैं आपको पागल बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा हूं। लेकिन, नहीं जनाब। इन दोनों में से कोई बात नहीं। मैं हकीकत बयान कर रहा हूं, एक ऐसे होटल की जो पूरी तरह बर्फ का बना है। वहां हर तरफ सिर्फ बर्फ है। और यह पागलपन नहीं क्योंकि वहां लोग आते हैं और ठहरते हैं, पूरे लुत्फ के साथ। हाल यह है कि इस होटल में टिकने के लिए काफी पहले से...