I am a big fan of swimming, it is by far my favourite form of exercise. I would swim every day if I could afford to or had my own facilities. Sadly this is not the case, however, during January Medley are offering free one week membership to use their facilities – all you need to do [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Sport category.
Free Hockey
Ice Hockey is one of Sweden’s largest and most followed sports. Umeå does have a team, Björklöven (The birch leaves) unfortunately they are not very good and have recently been relegated to the back of beyond leagues. Still, they are fighting for promotion and today is your chance to go see them and support them [...]
Snow Fun!
Last Friday if you were in the Umeå area you will have noticed a reasonable snow fall – I say reasonable as I have been living here for two years now and while the 4 or 5 inches of snow that we got would have been HUGE amounts in the UK, here it is barely worthy of [...]
Mini Golf
Crazy golf, mini golf, bangolf – whatever you choose to call it the premise is always the same – hit your ball through the obstacle course in as few hits as possible! What with autumn on the way but the sun still shining you might be stuck for a few ways to enjoy the sunshine [...]
Beach Volleyball Tour
It is Umeå’s turn to be host to the Sweden Beach Volleyball tour. That means that right in the centre of town you will find full sized beach volleyball court complete with real sand, stands and loud music! There is a whole program of events which can be found on the website here including Beach [...]