Metrunner Christmas Virtual Orienteering Double Week with Sweden and Thailand! Stay at home, stay safe and healthy, play orienteering, and explore the world virtually! NEW! Extended to 10 January 2021 Metrunner has updated its game and tour interface! The contest is now extended to 10 January 2021 for you to experience the new interface with […]
Uppsala is the 4th largest city in Sweden, and carries special prestige: it’s the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, primate of the Church of Sweden (i.e. the Swedish counterpart of England’s Archbishop of Canterbury); the location of one of the two most prestigious universities in the country (the other being Lund); the religious and […]
On the 10th day we come to Norrköping on the east coast of Sweden. Read more about our earlier article featuring the city as our O-Tour of the Day, or the Swedenmarker article about the city. Enjoy Norrköping!
Visby is the largest town on Gotland, and is a medieval Hanseatic trading city. Gotland is to the east of mainland Sweden, and was ruled by the pirate Victual Brothers, Teutonic Knights and Denmark before passing into Swedish rule in 1645. Gotland is a popular holiday destination for Swedes, and Visby is since 1995 a […]
Another Swedish city for the weekend—we come to Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden. Compared to Stockholm, Gothenburg is much newer—it is not a medieval city. Its current site was founded in the 17th century by King Gustavus Adolphus, i.e. the king who led Sweden into the Thirty Years War. The greatest threat to […]
Helsingborg, part of Scania in southern Sweden, is on the east coast of the Sound (Öresund), and the nearest point of Sweden to Denmark, being only 4 km across the sea from Elsinore (Helsingør). Indeed, helsing (compare with the modern Swedish word hals) means “neck”, a feature shared by places like Hälsingland (Swedish province located […]
We’re continuing our featured virtual tours from Sweden as part of our Sweden virtual orienteering competition in August! The port city of the Öresund Malmö has a long history of being a major port city on the Sound (Öresund), a shipping lane of regional importance and the major entrance into the Baltic Sea. A major […]
As part of our Sweden virtual orienteering competition, we’re featuring virtual tours from Sweden for the rest of August! Sweden’s Manchester Norrköping is known for its industrialised landscape, with factories and mills edging the river. For this, Norrköping is often called “Sweden’s Manchester”. Explore Norrköping with Metrunner now, which features the “orienteering map of the […]
To celebrate the sunny Swedish summer, we’re launching a new virtual orienteering competition! Explore Sweden with Metrunner’s many virtual o-tours and win a compass by Str8! The rules are very simple The competition starts from now until 31 August 2020 (23:59:59 Swedish time). You participate simply by playing as many virtual o-tours as possible and […]
Tourism is suffering. Jobs and livelihoods are lost. Companies are dying like flies. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, we’re now used to the concept of Working From Home (WFH), where we connect with our colleagues and finish our work from our homes. But life is not just working—travel is a great part of life for […]
