Vik

If this all sounds a bit low-octane for you, well, they don’t call this the Slow Coast for nothing!

Just seven kilometers north of Simrishamn—you can get here in under an hour by bike, and that’s not even pushing it!—Vik is what a Brit might call a picture-postcard fishing village. According to one of the Rough Planet team, “if you don’t fall instantly in love with Vik on a warm summer’s day, then you are dead inside and I don’t know how to help you”. (The Vik tourism föräning has, to date, declined to use this glowing endorsement on their own publicity materials.)

Wander the little back-alleys, sit and stare at the little harbour in hope of seeing young seals at play, or wander along the shore to take a dip in the stone formation known as the Priest’s Bathtub… if this all sounds a bit low-octane for you, well, they don’t call this the Slow Coast for nothing!

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