Right on the northern tip of Öland is one of Sweden’s is this long cobble beach that blossoms bright blue with Echium Vulgare in the summer.
Called “Neptune’s Fields” by botanist Carl Linnaeus, it is an important site for palaeontologists given the large numbers of fossils trapped inside the rocks formed during the last Ice Age.
Öland can be reached by driving 4 hours south of Stockholm to Oskarshamn and taking a boat across the Kalmar Strait.