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Is this the friendliest country in Europe?

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Sweden is bound to welcome you with open arms

By Jonathan Thompson 27 MAY 2016 • 8:00AM

“Hej!” chirrups the voice at the other end of the line. “You will soon be connected to a random Swede.” A click, a pause and then there he is - our very own unpremeditated local. In this case it’s ‘Lars’, primed to answer any question we might have on his homeland. Sweden is the first country in the world to introduce its own phone number - a not-forprofit initiative which began last month and is already reporting upwards of 5,000 callers a day. “We’ve had calls from 185 different countries already,” says Lars. “There are only 11 nations who haven’t called Sweden for a chat.” Unlike Syria, Guatemala, Kazakhstan and the other global party poopers, I’m a fully paid-up Swedophile today, following a reinvigorating night spent at an eco-hotel near Malmö. Angavellen - a working farm with 26 guest cottages - was a greedy gulp of fresh air after four days on the road from Britain, with an organic restaurant justifiably lauded as “a living Utopia” by Gourmet magazine. But I’m not ringing Sweden to boast about last night’s dinner. I’m calling because I need directions to a party in Stockholm tonight. Thanks to yet another ridiculously cordial initiative - a ‘Slice of Swedish Hospitality’ - tourists can now be “adopted” by a local host, who will feed and entertain them for the evening. I’ve signed up, and duly been assigned to a buoyant bear of a man named Björn Arvidsson.

“We haven’t been at war for 200 years; Sweden is proud of being everybody’s friend” Björn Arvidsson The kind of character who could ﬂog ﬁsh to the sea, Björn is well known in Stockholm’s hilly Vasastan neighbourhood for his daily backyard barbecues. And tonight I’ve been invited to join him, his wife Annie and assorted friends for their evening ritual.

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“Typical summer food would be something like senapsill - herring in a mustard sauce,” says Lars, the voice of Sweden, down the phone. “To be honest I hate that though, so maybe just take along some sausages and beer?” Honesty and geniality? It’s extremely hard not to like Sweden. (So what’s your problem Guatemala?)

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Warm and gregarious Björn CREDIT: OLI HILLYER-RILEY

Björn - who turns out to be a warm and gregarious host - is predictably proud of his country’s endemic benevolence. “Of course we’re friendly,” he laughs, expertly marshalling the flotilla of meat currently sizzling on his grill. “We haven’t been at war for 200 years; Sweden is proud of being everybody’s friend.” It’s another hearty meal to fuel our epic European road trip - a mini Grand Tour of every EU country in one calendar month. Our first week has seen us cross seven nations in our faithful MINI Clubman: the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and now Sweden. Europe mini adventure the flash pack

The Belgian leg in particular was a real treat, driving down the winding country roads of rural Wallonia - the French speaking southern half of Belgium - before spending the night in Durbuy, the smallest (and quite possibly the prettiest) city in the world. Perhaps deterred by the all-too familiar ﬂatlands of Flanders, nobody seems to talk about how truly lovely Wallonia is, framed by the verdant hills and abundant forests of the Ardennes and right on Britain’s doorstep. Quaint Durbuy - where we spent the ﬁrst evening of our 30 nights on the road - looks and feels as though it belongs in an illustrated fairy tale as much as a European road atlas.

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A photo posted by Jonathan Thompson (@jt_travels) on May 20, 2016 at 12:39pm PDT

Across the border in the Netherlands, the town of ’s-Hertogenbosch is having its own moment in the sun, thanks to the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, its most famous son. Here (after a stop in Luxembourg to check out the Mudam Museum) we took a fascinating “Heaven and Hell” boat tour through its cobweb of rivers and canals, featuring large-scale projections of the artist’s fantastical work onto its subterranean tunnels. Universally nicknamed Den Bosch, the city has a particularly vibrant social scene (particularly around bustling Korte Putstraat - a thin street of wallto-wall restaurants) and, like Durbuy, is criminally overlooked by most Brits. Just a 15minute train ride from Eindhoven airport, this is city break gold. From Den Bosch we pushed north to Hamburg for lunch at the city’s quirky riverside steampunk beach bar Strand Pauli, before reaching the next of our major stops Aarhus.

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ARoS art museum CREDIT: OLI HILLYER-RILEY

Denmark’s second city, Aarhus is ﬁnally stepping out of Copenhagen’s long shadow, with a new British Airways route from London starting this month, a major Grayson Perry exhibition about to open at its outstanding art museum ARoS - and European City of Culture status in 2017. Impressively, it’s also gone from zero to three Michelin starred restaurants in the last 12 months, spearheaded by René Mammen’s much feted Substans, where we enjoyed a Nordic cookery lesson with Denmark’s latest culinary poster boy.

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René Mammen’s take on ice cream CREDIT: OLI HILLYER-RILEY

From Aarhus, it was a straight shot past Copenhagen and across epic Øresund Bridge to Malmo, to begin our 36 hour Swedish odyssey. Reflecting on the first five days of the mini Grand Tour from our cabin aboard the AF Chapman - a floating hostel at the heart of Stockholm Harbour - it seems incredible that we’ve covered so many places in such a short time already. At 5am tomorrow we need to head out for our next seamless Aferry.co.uk connection - a boat to Finland’s isolated Åland Islands. The Ultimate European Road Trip: Jonathan Thompson gets tips from Charley Boorman 01:53

All of the group agree that we’ll miss Sweden the most of the countries we’ve visited so far. But it’s comforting to know that, like any old friend, we can now simply pick up the phone for a random chat at any time. Read last week's blog, in which Jonathan Thompson gets some advice from Charley Boorman ahead of his road trip. Follow Jonathan Thompson’s mini Grand Tour of Europe at Telegraph Travel or on Twitter and Instagram: @JT_Travels The Swedish Tourism Board has set up The Swedish Number to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country becoming the ﬁrst to abolish censorship. To call Sweden Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. Article Page 8 of 13 358335846 - ANGSMI - A24529 - 1

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A photo posted by Jonathan Thompson (@jt_travels) on May 2, 2016 at 2:19am PDT

The Ultimate European Road Trip: Week One Day 1: Dover, UK - Durbuy, Belgium Miles: 249 Stay: sanglier-des-ardennes.be - a beautiful rural retreat with an outstanding restaurant, at the heart of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smallest city. Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. Article Page 9 of 13 358335846 - ANGSMI - A24529 - 1

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For more en route: belgium-tourism.be Day 2: Durbuy, Belgium - s’Hertongenbosch, Netherlands (via Luxembourg City) Miles: 446 Stay: movenpick.com/en/europe/netherlands/hertogenbosch/hotel-hertogenbosch - a comfortable four star hotel well positioned in the Netherland’s town of the moment. For more en route: visitluxembourg.com, holland.com

s’Hertongenbosch

Day 3: s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands - Aarhus, Denmark (via Hamburg) Miles: 536 Stay: comwellaarhus.dk - a beautiful new design hotel right in the city centre For more en route: visitdenmark.com Day 4: Aarhus, Denmark - Malmo Miles: 154 Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. Article Page 10 of 13 358335846 - ANGSMI - A24529 - 1

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Stay: angavallen.se - a unique eco-hotel with 26 cottages spread across its picturesque grounds, serving organic ďŹ eld-to-fork produce in its award winning restaurant. For more en route: visitsweden.com Day 5: Malmo, Sweden - Stockholm, Sweden Miles: 382 Stay: svenskaturistforeningen.se/anlaggningar/stf-stockholmaf-chapman-vandrarhembaten - a ďŹ&#x201A;oating property situated in Stockholm Harbour, said to be the most popular hostel in the world. Affordable and quirky with some of the most beautiful views of the Swedish capital. For more en route: visitstockholm.com Europe bucket list