Birgitta at Vadstena — I'm not religious, but I wanted to make a pilgrimage of sorts to the remains of Bridget of Sweden (AKA St. Birgitta), the 14th century saint who started her own order and whose example, I suspect, strongly influenced Sweden's sense of self in the centuries that followed, up to the present day. Read on...

During August 2008 I spent 17 days driving around Sweden in the single-minded pursuit of one good 360-degree panorama per day, posting the results daily to the Panoramic Sweden blog.