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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

October 21st - Can Sweden enhance your mind and body in winter?

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Travel desk Tuesday – and my colleague, senior travel writer Natalie Wilson, has been writing about a Visit Sweden initiative that seeks to promote physical and mental well-being for the traveller to Scandinavia (as well as boosting the fortunes of the local travel industry). Travel anywhere, in my experience, is always a restorative.


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0:00.0

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0:02.3

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0:05.7

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0:08.5

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0:10.1

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0:12.9

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0:18.5

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0:22.3

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0:27.7

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0:40.9

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0:45.0

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0:49.2

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1:02.3

Hello and welcome today's independent travel podcast with me, sign of the call place.

1:07.6

Tuesday in 21st of October travel desk Tuesday and I'm delighted to welcome back senior

1:14.8

travel writer Natalie Wilson from the Independence Travel Desk. My goodness the nights are drawing in

1:23.0

if you happen to be in the far north, maybe somewhere like Sweden, then you're getting relatively

1:29.2

little daylight. Everything's quite glum and expensive in my estimation. But there is a campaign

1:37.1

by Visit Sweden that claims in your excellent article, Natalie, to show how holiday makers can benefit from the country's

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