Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Anyone who has ever moved house, experienced relief on returning home after travels, or been disoriented by roadworks must feel for the residents of Kiruna, Sweden, […]
Imagine walking to work. It’s a regular workday. Rigmaroles. Distractions. Rituals. Will the report be ready on time? Is that new colleague going to say something […]
A Delta Air Lines pilot has failed a breathalyzer test in Stockholm causing a transatlantic flight to New York City to be cancelled, according to Swedish […]
Travellers often overlook Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city, because of Stockholm’s cosmopolitanism or Copenhagen’s buzz. Yet, Malmö, nestled in southern Sweden only 30 kilometres from the Danish […]
Climate change is impacting life in many ways, including some of the least expected. In Sweden, higher-than-normal temperatures have meant that traditional winter pastimes such as […]
Swedish multinational energy company Vattenfall have found a reuse for wind turbine components previously considered unrecyclable, by turning them into tiny homes. The concept was revealed […]
Preparing for a tour round Karlstad’s Brigade Museum (Brigadmuseum), marking Sweden’s journey through the Cold War, from 1945 to 1991, you’re not expecting to be confronted […]
In a move that is surprisingly off-brand for a country with an eco-activist reputation, Sweden is set to abolish its aviation tax from summer 2025. The […]
When I said I’d be spending a night in Trollhättan, a former industrial city at the drainpipe end of Vänern, Sweden’s largest lake, people just looked […]
The thermometer hitting 28 degrees in the city of Stockholm is something special. Those who are on holidays or not working relocate towards parks, beaches and […]
Have you heard about crayfish parties? Well, then it’s time for you to hear about them. Crayfish parties are an essential part of Swedish food culture, […]
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has produced its very last diesel-powered car. The vehicle, a XC90 SUV model, was made at the Torslanda factory and won’t even […]
As ski resorts around the world continue to face the effects of climate change on the beloved mountain sport and on their economies, Sweden may present […]
The Swedish tourist board has launched a “Sweden (not Switzerland)” campaign to help people tell the difference between the two countries. “Definitely different” “People all over […]