Photos clockwise from top: Early morning nestled in a fiord. // Modern longship on the Norwegian coast. // The bare poles of a modern katta. //Granite island campsite on Lake Viken, Sweden.


To reach our island escape, we’d driven across southern


Adding to the glory is Sweden’s allemansrätten,


literally translated to mean, “all man’s right.”


50 SUMMER/FALL 2013


England, caught the Dover ferry to Dunkerque, and glimpsed France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark before finally crossing Öresund Bridge to Sweden. After pushing our canoe-crested, red van hard through a European tour, we were tired, but nothing could remove the grins from our faces. Our cheery anticipation was well founded. With a gorgeous


coastline, 100,000 lakes and scores of beautiful rivers set within that vast amount of wilderness, we were in paddlers’ paradise. Adding to the glory is Sweden’s allemansrätten, literally translated to mean, “all man’s right.” This glorious institution, effectively a constitutionally


protected right to roam, is enshrined within the very identity of Scandinavian countries, and offers some of the most mature attitudes to access found anywhere in the world. As long as


Right to Roam


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