The church at Vika — Sometimes, a single experience can make the entire trip worthwhile all by itself. It happened to me just a few days ago in the small village of Vika outside Falun, whose 14th-century church I was told had some magnificent wall paintings that I wanted to photograph. 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.