As I pitched my tent among the toothpick-shaped trees, I thought about the words of my hiking guide. “Nature belongs to everyone in Sweden. We have a right to access and a duty to be guardians to our natural world,” he said.
It’s easy to envy that attitude, known in Swedish as “allemansrätten”. Living in England, a country where half of the landmass is owned by less than one per cent of the population, the freedom to pitch anywhere is refreshing.
