Rånäs castle is an elegant hotel, restaurant, spa, as well as a venue for weddings and conferences. It once belonged to the Reuterskiöld family, who were fascinated by culture and travel. And you can see the family's passion reflected in the Italian-inspired 19th century manor house . In each article of the Staycation series, we explore different locations in Sweden where you can travel to, for a holiday style getaway without leaving the country. In this edition we took to Rånäs castle for a romantic weekend experience and this is our report.

Actor Payman Maadi visited Stockholm last month, during The 30th Stockholm Film Festival to pick up the Stockholm Achievement Award and we took the opportunity to sit down with him to talk about his love for film, his career as director, writer and actor and his more personal likes and dislikes. He also talked about the making of Just 6.5, a film that has broken all the box office records in the history of film in Iran, which premiere here at the International Stockholm Film Festival with huge acceptance by the Swedish public and he gave us a scope of his upcoming films. Watch our interview and get to know the man behind award winning films and awe-inspiring stories.

In this episode of our video series Living the City, we present to you Stockholm’s Top Cocktails 2019. Three different cocktail experts prepare for us the cocktails that Stockholmers love the most. Our cocktail experts are: Jorge Enrique Quintana and Love Wesström preparing a Barranco Bowl at Videgård Milan Markus preparing a Neon City at Tak Anon preparing a Marimota at Eatery Social

Cats - internet darlings and controllers of some of us happy cat-owners' lives, have now a place for cat-worship, socialising and adoption here in Stockholm at Surbrunnsgatan 48, we're talking about Java Whiskers Cat Café which opened its doors in February 16, 2019 and has since then worked as cat influencing and bridge between cat lovers and cats in Stockholm.

Trekillar is a music trio, who are bringing the colourful sounds of the traditional Mexican music to Sweden in their very unique way. The band is formed by Rene on the violin, Niklas on the guitarrón and Alejandro on the viruela. Although it hasn't been so easy for a band like them, playing such a particular musical style, to establish themselves in a country like Sweden, they have already managed to collect a line of ardent followers. That's why we've chosen them as Role Models to be featured and talked about. They guys are full-time musicians and besides Trekillar they have their own parallel music projects. Rene has a longtime solo career singing and composing under the name of Ranarex. His music reflects very well the modern Mexican music scene. Whilst Niklas has a more experimental project called Formatet, where he puts together rock influences, electronic sounds and dark lyrics that bring to mind bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Unkle. Meanwhile Alejandro is also a music teacher and has been approached by big brands like a well-known fast food giant to feature in their adverts. Just another example of how pronounced the influence of Mexican music and culture is in Sweden.

Bring Your Own Container is an initiative driven by Zero Waste Stockholm. The principle is basically to bring your own containers from home to the restaurant and/or bulk shops to purchase your take-away food or bulk groceries. By following this initiative you reduce considerably the amount of waste produced from the single-use packaging used to transport these goods. Much of such packaging such the black plastic containers are not even recyclable and that’s the most commonly used one. Nowadays we tend to consume take-away food more than before and in average about 173 kg of packaging waste is generated per inhabitant in the EU every year. That’s a lot of waste that we can definitely and easily reduce, as you can see in our video above!