00:00Tourists are bucking the traditional summer norms, with this year's hottest trend instead
00:05being holidaying in cooler countries.
00:09More and more tourists from Central and Southern Europe, where summer temperatures can reach
00:13as high as 40 degrees, are heading to Sweden.
00:17We are several times in France and Spain, and it is very hot today.
00:25This time we have said we go to the north.
00:30With its 17 degree July weather, peaceful and quiet atmosphere and absence of traffic
00:35jams, the Swedish city of Umeå is proving to be a very popular tourist destination.
00:43We bought a vacation home here and then we decided to sell our big house in Germany and
00:50move here.
00:52Germany is very crowded and the climate change, it gets warmer and warmer in Germany.
01:00We have over 40 degrees in the summer and here it's a little bit colder and it's nicer
01:08in the summer.
01:12More and more people from abroad are coming to visit the area for a variety of reasons.
01:19Sweden has also noticed an increase in foreign buyers of homes throughout the nation.
01:24Climate change is another significant reason for this.
01:28Real estate agents say the two reasons the number of foreign buyers has increased significantly
01:33is the weak Swedish krona and that customers are seeking homes to have for the future when
01:39Europe gets warmer.
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