Northern exposure: a trip to Sweden's Gothenburg Archipelago

"We whiled away our time hiking, birding, Eurovision binging, board game playing, and dipping in and out of the sea and sauna."

Sunrise from the deck of Tom's Swedish escape

We Irish may love to migrate south, but there’s something about those sparse, gilded sky, northern climes that always gets my wanderlust fluttering. 

So when I was recently planning a spring Nordic getaway and my friends in Copenhagen were considering an Easter break, we decided to join road-trip forces and head north on an escape from the Danish capital. And so after feeding the Airbnb filter with our various wish-list criteria, a dream island off the Swedish coast became our unexpected common denominator and we found ourselves road-tripping to the stunning — if unexpected setting — of the Gothenburg Archipelago.