Sweden 2021 part VIII - Norrbotten and Västerbotten Districts

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July 16th 2021

Published: December 11th 2021

Sweden's largest rapid, Sweden's largest ghost town, the world's highest wooden house and the world's largest cheese slicer Something we learnt this summer while travelling in northern Sweden is that although there are plenty of rivers in this country there are not many waterfalls. Instead there are plenty of rapids, and they can be pretty spectacular too. We will start this blog entry by writ... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Boliden gold mine

Boliden gold mine is the only gold mine in Sweden

Metal preschool

This preschool in Boliden is named Metal preschool. It has nothing to do with load rock'n'roll and all to do with there being a gold mine in town

20 stories high wooden building

One of the highest wooden buildings in the world is under construction in Skellefteå

The largest cheese slicer in the world

In the village Ånäset they have a sculpture of the largest cheese slicer in the world.

Robertsfors Ironworks

Robertsfors Ironworks was once the largest ironworks in Västerbotten District and the major employer in the town Robertsfors.

Robertsfors Ironworks

The ironworks was closed down in late 19th century and today the buildings are preserved for their historical value.

Bridge in Robertsfors

Nice reflections in the water

Myggvalla - Mosquito Field

We have saved something a bit funny for last. We found a local sports ground named Myggvalla, which translates to Mosquito Field. Wonder if they have an insect problem there...

12th December 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

I love ghost towns. There many here in my province because of abandoned rail lines.

12th December 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

On ghost towns
We also like ghost towns. We have visited several interesting ones over the years. Pripyat in Ukraine (Chernobyl) we visited in 2009. In North Cyprus (2006) I saw Varosha. Even though I could not enter, it was still spectacular. /Ake

27th December 2021

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Cheese slicers and more
I love seeing quirky things like the largest cheese slicer. The rapids are beautiful and we enjoyed hearing about the ghost town. What a lovely trip. Thanks for sharing.

23rd January 2022

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Cheese Slicers and Tall Wooden Buildings
Wow, you have certainly uncovered some unknown places and travel information in Northern Sweden! Lots of fun places and interesting stories here - I particularly love the five villages named after a Swedish nursery rhyme! ?

23rd January 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Five villages
I wish we had had someone with local knowledge with us that day because we both got lost and we are sure that there were more left of those villages than we actually found. But on our own without proper guidance we came to point where it just wasn't worth keep looking. /Ake

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