Category: Random Trips

THE ISLAND

August 12, 2013 | Europe, Random Trips, Sweden

I declared my fondness of Sweden in a recent post (THE RETURN). I know I'm preaching to the choir but I don't care, here's another post on the ...

Erik

Erik, founder of THE ESCAPE, finds excitement on two wheels in remote backcountry.

THE ISLAND

August 12, 2013 | Europe, Random Trips, Sweden

I declared my fondness of Sweden in a recent post (THE RETURN). I know I'm preaching to the choir but I don't care, here's another post on the magnificent Kingdom of Sweden. I'd like to share a few sentences about the longest day of the year and an island that holds a very special spot in my heart. As a bicycle-nomad I appreciate contrast and change but there is one certain tradition I like to hold on to; midsummer. In the archipelago outside Stockholm there are 35.000 islands and islets, on one of them I usually spend midsummer ...

Erik

Erik, founder of THE ESCAPE, finds excitement on two wheels in remote backcountry.

THE RETURN

August 10, 2013 | Europe, Random Trips, Sweden

Summer in Sweden is something unique, during three or four months per year an otherwise cold and sometimes introvert nation explodes to life. In mid-June I returned from Asia ...

Erik

Erik, founder of THE ESCAPE, finds excitement on two wheels in remote backcountry.

THE RETURN

August 10, 2013 | Europe, Random Trips, Sweden

Summer in Sweden is something unique, during three or four months per year an otherwise cold and sometimes introvert nation explodes to life. In mid-June I returned from Asia to my home country in northern Europe. I’ve traveled a fair bit on six out of seven continents on our planet. My love for Sweden keeps growing with every new country and area I visit. Let me give you a glimpse of a summer I will never forget. STHLM Stockholm is my hometown. It’s also the city I left on a fully loaded bicycle in the early months of 2012. I both ...

Erik

Erik, founder of THE ESCAPE, finds excitement on two wheels in remote backcountry.

A CLASSIC LONDON WEEKEND

February 8, 2012 | England, Europe, Random Trips, Stockholm - Singapore

Uppdateringarna från resor under hösten fortsätter. I slutet av oktober besökte jag min gode vän Anton i London. Det hade hunnit bli grått och kyligt i Stockholm men en ...