D.H. Lawrence once wrote a story called “The Man Who Loved Islands”, in which his protagonist, a Mr. Cathcart, seeks to avoid the complexities of human interaction by moving to progressively smaller, more isolated islands. That doesn’t end too well for him, but I must confess to a similar penchant for islands – never the […]

It’s no secret I like to sweat it out. Preferably in the solitude of a wood-fired cabin by a lake surrounded by dense forest. But failing that, I get my schwitz on any way I can. One of my most memorable sauna quests took place in Malmö on the Baltic Sea coast, where on a […]