Travel view: Independent on Sunday, 5 June 2011
Money does grow on trees…or at least under them. The Amazon has featured a good deal in the news in recent weeks, most stories examining the value of the world’s largest rainforest if denuded as agricultural land or penetrated for oil or gas.
Independent on Sunday, 21 June 2011
Sweden is home to a fantastical hotel experiment that will wow architecture fans but not comfort seekers, says Sarah Barrell
Like many good stories, this one began around a campfire.
In 2008, travel guide Kent Lindvall hosted one of his far-flung fishing trips to a remote part of Russia’s Kamchatka region. Here he got talking to his guests, Swedish architects, about the inspirational film Tradelskaren (The Tree Lover), where three urbanites rediscover their rural roots by building a house together in the woods.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/hotels/stay-the-night-treehotel-swedish-lapland-2296336.html
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