Visiting Sweden's Best Kept Secret
For centuries and up until the end of the Cold War foreigners were unwelcome in the Stockholm as Sweden worried about invasion and spying submarines.
But since the fall of the Iron Curtain, most of the cannons and the signs forbidding foreigners on the archipelago’s shores have disappeared, and more foreigners are starting to find their way out into the archipelago.
This time check webcam in Sweden, an official center for tourism and travel information, has noticed a growing number of visitors from Sweden’s neighboring countries, but also from Germany, France and Holland, its information director, Bo Soderstrom, said.
Cissi Grape of Visit Skargarden, an association for archipelago businesses, said a weak local currency, the crown, and cheap travel have boosted the interest.
“We are seeing a big jump,” she said, adding that even Britney Spears took time off to see the archipelago while on tour in Stockholm a few weeks ago…