The Best Times To Visit The Stockholm Archipelago Trail You can certainly take Rick Steves' advice and visit Sweden in the peak summer season. The archipelago is a region where Sweden's urbanites ...

His summer intern ... sharp shoulders of dark rock rising above a landscape carved by ice sheets. The latest one receded from northern Sweden some 9,000 years ago—so recently that the bedrock ...

Like the majority of Sweden's islands, Holmön is known for its rich biodiversity and varied landscape ... including in the summer regular boat trips to nearby island and nature reserve Stora ...

One European country, not too far from the UK, holds the record for the most islands anywhere on the planet. That country is Sweden, which is home to 267,570 islands - more than any other nation.

While most of these islands are uninhabited, they play a huge role in Sweden’s landscape and culture ... dramatic seasonal changes, with long summer days in the north where the sun never ...