Fun to be at the 🇫🇷 AKTEM Breeze-Up in Maisons-Laffitte last week, and to travel on to Germany for my annual visit to 🇩🇪 Iffezheim.
Today I’m at my first 🇩🇰 Folkemødet on Bornholm.
Nice to write about Greenlandic experiences for Scan Magazine...
…and interesting to examine statistics around 🚬 smoking in Sweden for Monocle Radio (less than 5% of the population now smokes daily).
My report is available on catch up in this episode:
https://t.co/d5CeGfVmER
A while until the sales, but Scandinavia’s racing season gets started soon…
Swedish jump racing has faced a 30% cut to its prize money and my interview on that with Anders Herlin of Skandinavisk Hindersport, recorded in Malmö, formed part of yesterday’s Nick Luck Daily episode.
On @Monocle_Radio twice today.
My piece on 🇳🇴 🚘 EVs in Norway, where last year nearly 96% of new cars sold were electric, formed part of The Globalist.
And as 🇩🇰 🗳️ Denmark went to the polls, my piece on its election aired in The Monocle Daily.
Election results are arriving…
🇸🇪 I enjoyed attending the Sweden International Horse Show in Stockholm a couple of years ago, and am at the Gothenburg Horse Show this weekend. 🐴
@FEI_Global Jumping World Cup sänds nu på SVT2.
The words the world waits for…
Italian President, Sergio Mattarella declares Milano Cortina 2026 OPEN! 🔥🇮🇹
LET THE GAMES BEGIN! 🎉
#OpeningCeremony | #MilanoCortina2026
I’m looking forward to taking @RacingBreaks customers to 🇸🇪 Stockholm for a fourth time in September.
This year’s trip is exclusive to @IJF_official members.
More information below. 👇
https://t.co/HtC7dpCnIx
The ⛷️ ski slope in a capital city built partially of construction garbage…
I enjoyed my time on 🇸🇪 Hammarbybacken last year, as my Monocle article explains. 👇
https://t.co/DGlFnPEjAv
It was nice to do some sightseeing in Hong Kong, and to pop over to nearby Macau and Shenzhen, alongside attending the @HKJC_Racing IJC and HKIR.
🇭🇰 🇲🇴 🇨🇳
🇩🇪 I received a tour of Cologne’s Gestüt Röttgen in January, and it was fun to attend the Cuxhaven mudflat races further north in August. You can read my piece on the latter via the @TRCommentary website…
https://t.co/lwWd15MbOR
It was lovely to attend the 🇫🇷 Arqana Arc Sale in Paris last weekend and I’m looking forward to another trip to 🇩🇪 @BBAG_Sales next week. Before that, I’m delighted to be reporting from today’s 🇸🇪 Swedish Yearling and Horses in Training Sale…
🇸🇪 We’re delighted to be at Bro Park’s Swedish Yearling and Horses in Training Sale…
🗞️ Read the report in tomorrow’s EBN.
#scandinavianracing | @swehorseracing
It was nice to catch up with former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, founder of the @oslocenter. My interview with him is in this month’s edition of Scan Magazine.