Listening to the World - Åland

I'll start by noting that as I understand it, an "A" with a circle over it is different from a normal "A" and comes at the end of the alphabet. But I don't alphabetize things in Wikipedia, so off we go.

Åland is a group of islands between Sweden and Finland. It seems to be one of those territories that has been bounced back and forth as nations conquer each other and now finds itself in a strange semi-autonomous limbo. Currently it is an independent protectorate of Finland even though the inhabitants, as far as I can tell, tend to self-identify as Swedish.

Anyway, most of their radio fare seems to be Swedish, which makes sense, as they are reasonably close to Stockholm. I'll get to Sweden eventually.

The one radio station that I could find with a web feed is this one. It seems to be mostly talk. The day that I spent listening I got an opportunity to listen to an interview with Torsten Sommarström (unless he was the interviewer). The person being interviewed seemed to be an older gent, and he was talking about San Francisco. The discussion was interspersed with the occasional polka, so that was sort of nice.

Åland, meanwhile, looks like an excessively cool place. I come to realize that I am a sucker for groups of islands that I've never heard of before.