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A Sweet Holiday Cottage on the Baltic Sea

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On the archipelago of islands dotted throughout the Baltic Sea are many little holiday chalets.

This is because average people in Sweden and Finland have vacation time that we Americans can only dream of.

They use it to spend that abundant stretch of time to live the good life economically, in little holiday houses.

This sweet house in the Swedish archipelago is typical of that fresh and forthright egalitarian style.

The Swedish sense of style, understated as it is, informs these kinds of houses.

These are not houses for the rich to slum in to get away from their slick city townhouses.

They are simply houses for average people to take a holiday break and enjoy nature.

So rooms for sleeping are not hugely well organised.

The kids might bunk up together in rudimentary small bedrooms.

But the typical Scandinavian bathroom is well set up to keep squeaky clean.

Many of these holiday houses are not huge.

But for a getaway in Scandinavia – to enjoy those long summer evenings in the land of the midnight sun – that is enough.