New year, new island? An isle – or ten – that you previously hadn’t visited or even conceived of visiting is a certainty on Sweden’s latest multi-day trek. But this one focuses not on the endless forests and mountains of the north – but on the archipelago just off the coast of Stockholm: the Stockholm Archipelago. This group of 30,000-odd islands forms one of the world’s largest archipelagos: and now it is connected, tip to tail, Arnholma to Oja, by a 270km-long hiking trail. It’s a sustainable, car-free, dedicated low-impact route too. The Stockholm Archipelago Trail (SAT) opened last October, but no one really started walking it then, as the bad weather was coming in for winter. This spring, once the snow has melted, is the time to take on this island-to-island hike, with boats to catch in-between isles. And last autumn, the region’s ‘magic season’, I hiked over a third of the trail across different sections to scout out the very best bits…
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