With only about 3000-4000 inhabitants, the town of Vilhelmina is not a major tourist destination. It was named after Queen Frederica Dorothea Wilhelmina of Sweden but despite the honour it only has a Coop and an ICA supermarket. On our way to the Arctic Circle from Stockholm, we stopped to fill up the car and buy a sandwich since we got hungry.
Since it is a very small town, it is a good place to stop and observe local life in near-arctic Swedish communities. We headed down to to lake, which was frozen over, and observed locals drilling holes for ice fishing. We haven’t been able to see anyone who actually caught any fish so I suppose the Swedes are a patient people.
