This week we added a new collection of Scandinavian inspired products to our store. The term Scandinavia always includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are usually not seen as a part of Scandinavia, nor is Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark.

We were not always mountaineers. When we left London for a family travel adventure in the summer of 2015, we were city people. None of our kids had camping and my experience on this field was a distant memory--my tent had been collecting dust in my sister’s garage since 2003.

However, the Faroe Islands, also a Danish overseas territory, are sometimes included, as sometimes are Iceland, Finland, and the Finnish autonomous region of the Åland Islands, because of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian peoples and languages.