Sweden Guide
The southeast
Öland
Linked to mainland Sweden by a six-kilometre bridge, the island of Öland is the kind of place a Swedish Famous Five would come on holiday: mysterious forests and flat, pretty meadows to cycle through, miles of mostly unspoilt beaches, wooden cottages with candy-striped canopies, windmills and ice-cream parlours. Swedes have been coming here in droves for over a century, but since becoming popular with foreign tourists, it's now visited by 55,000 people every July and August. Despite this onslaught, which clogs the road from the bridge north to the main town, Borgholm, this long, splinter-shaped island retains a likeably old-fashioned holiday atmosphere, with a labyrinth of walking trails and bicycle routes, old castles and ruins to visit, and some of the best bathing opportunities in Sweden.
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