“Sometimes they even drop into the hotel here,” says the waiter in the restaurant. Storlien cuts a dash in Swedish media as the preferred Easter getaway for the Swedish royal family. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. A room with a view of empty railway tracks, the patter of rain on a tin roof, a log fire burning in the bar that is large enough to accommodate the entire population of Storlien.
It seems uncompromisingly forlorn, but the hotel on the station platform, Le Ski Lodge & Steak House, is welcoming. Alighting in the drizzle, I wonder if I have made a serious mistake. Mörsil is a regular stopping-off point on St Olav’s Way so I pause for two hours and explore this small community in the hills which, with the coming of the railway in 1882, developed into a health resort.Īfter a sweet diversion at Sundings, I am back on the train heading for an overnight stop at Storlien. “You’ll find the best cakes in Sweden at Sundings konditori,” she says. I am uncertain whether to break my journey, but the helpful train manager suggests that Mörsil might be a good option. Storlien cuts a dash in Swedish media as the preferred Easter getaway for the Swedish royal family We glide west through ever more forbidding landscapes, making tracks for the border with Norway. As on the previous day, the train is very modern, showcasing Norrtåg’s striking blue and yellow branding, with a smart bistro area for self-service snacks and drinks. The next day I am back at Östersund station for the train up to Storlien. The MS Thomée moored on the waterfront at Östersund. Work started on the great cathedral that today is both a shrine to Olav and an icon of Norwegian national identity.
The king’s body was interred in Trondheim and he was promptly acclaimed as a martyr and a saint. The story goes that his expeditionary force was waylaid, and Olav was fatally injured by the blow of an axe in the Battle of Stiklestad. King Olav (AKA Olav Haraldsson) set out from Sweden’s east coast for Trondheim in early summer 1030, but sadly never made it. I take the waters at the holy well, then repair to the nearby microbrewery to sample Mystic Pilgrim The route extends from the Swedish shore of the Gulf of Bothnia to Norway’s Trondheim Fjord, where St Olav’s Way ends at Trondheim’s Nidaros Cathedral.
Whether by train or on foot, this is a gorgeous transect through a deeply rural region. The railway from Sundsvall to Trondheim casts a 287 miles (463km) thread across central Scandinavia, for long stretches paralleling the pilgrim trail known as St Olavsleden (St Olav’s Way).
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