Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder. It's Tuesday the 3rd of June.

That means it's Travel Desk Tuesday. I'm delighted to be joined by my excellent colleague on the

independent travel desk, Natalie Wilson. Natalie, you are just back from...

Sweden. Tell us what happened. So I was lucky enough to go on a trip with Intrepid Travel and see, I think an awful lot of

Sweden for six days, started in Gothenburg, then spent a couple of days on, and I'm going

to butcher the pronunciation. I think it's Wronga Island, which is the southernmost in

Gothenburg, the island. And then a long coach

to the lakes, which was beautiful, and then finished off in Stockholm. So I would say I've seen a lot of

Sweden. Talk me through it, because you did actually mention to me earlier that getting into

Sweden, part of the European Union, of course, which we chose to leave, was a little bit tricky.

It was. It was definitely, so we landed in Gothenburg, and it was one of the most intense

border controls I've had for a very long time, especially in Europe. They wanted to see

a return ticket. They wanted to know how long I was there for, where I was staying, who was travelling with,

it was a lot of questions. And the same flying home, I flew home from

Stockholm, having the different stamps in my passport through them. There was a lot of frowning.

Yeah, different experience to usual.

Because you had the temerity to fly into one Swedish city and fly out from another one?

I did, yes.

Well, just for information, anybody, if you fly, you could fly into, let me think of the northernmost place I can,

Rovarnia, in Finland, and fly out of Tenerife.

And as long as you stay within the Schengen area, it would not matter tuppence that you'd gone in and out of different airports.

Please nobody worry about that.

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