Umeå is a university town, with two universities and over 39,000 students, balanced on the Ume River.

It was also, in 2014, elected the European Capital of Culture, and houses the Norrland Opera as well as being the centre of television in northern Sweden.

This was the final day of our tour.

It was very, very cold.

Andrew Berridge, viola player for Scottish Ensemble, took photos as the group travelled around Sweden on the Dancenet Sweden tour of Goldberg Variations - ternary patterns for insomnia (27 Jan - 6 Feb 2016). This was the second time that the performance had come to Sweden; it premiered in Stockholm on 17 September 2015.