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New Images From Our Friends in Sweden

September 9, 2010 Blog

Our partners in Sweden at Bjorknasgarden Hotel have just sent us over this great gallery of images, taken around the hotel over the last few months. We’ll be introducing some of the people who help us make Ice Driver a success every year, but we thought we’d start not with a person, but a place. [...]

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Views from the Northern Boys

August 17, 2010 Testimonials

We just realised that this lovely email from one of our previous guests didn’t get copied across into our new website design last winter, so here’s the full, unedited opinion of what they thought of their trip to Ice Driver in Sweden. “What a fantastic weekend we had with the Ice Driver crew! My mate [...]

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Ice Driving on Father’s Day? Almost..

June 8, 2010 Blog

We’re the first to admit that Ice Driver isn’t cheap. It’s not meant to be. There are many many offers available in the UK that cater for the casual driving enthusiast on a budget, so why come to Sweden in mid-winter? Ice Driver guests are not your average casual car enthusiast….. But if you’re looking [...]

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Why We’re So Bad At Winter Driving II

January 14, 2010 Blog
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Earlier, we commented about how in Sweden, life goes on in winter and the Swedes wondered why we’re so bad at managing in the snow. Well on the UK’s ITV Tonight programme, there’s a whole half hour devoted to why, but sadly, they miss the point. It’s not about councils, gritters and closing businesses and [...]

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Why We Chose Our Location in Sweden. And How..

January 14, 2010 Blog
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This has to be the most often asked question, “Why did you choose your location in Sweden and how did you find your driving lake?”It’s a bit of a long story, but briefly, it took hard work, some mistakes along the way and lots of leg work. When we started Ice Driver 5 years ago, [...]

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Ice Driver on The Paul O’Grady Show

January 13, 2010 Gallery
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Last winter, we had a TV crew from The Paul O’Grady daytime TV show with us to make a short TV piece. The idea was that they have a series of unsuspecting members of the public that they send to do challenges and this lady was picked to drive our Porsche 911 on our frozen [...]

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Coming to Ice Driver? Bring a Camera!

January 8, 2010 Gallery
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If you’re coming to Ice Driver this year, bring a camera. Or better still, bring a photographer! One of the groups that came to drive with us last season had a professional photographer in their midst. Portrait and wedding photographer Gary McKenna was kind enough to allow us to use these pictures he shot in [...]

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Why Are We Brits So Bad at Winter Driving?

December 17, 2009 Blog
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Last winter at Ice Driver, we took a lot of stick from the locals in Sweden. They watched on TV with much hilarity as the UK ground to a halt under just a few centimetres of snow, while they continued their daily lives, snow piled high in the streets, -25c temparatures not uncommon and a [...]

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What does an Ice Driver Tyre Look Like?

December 17, 2009 Blog
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If you’re used to driving on ice with normal tyres, you’re probably wondering how we achieve the high speeds that you see in the Ice Driver video. Well, it’s all in the tyres. Tyre choice is vital for ice driving and while many winter driving experience organisations use a simple winter tyre, we prefer to [...]

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The Ice Is Here!

November 9, 2009 Blog
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Great news from the guys on the ground near Ostersund, our driving lake froze for the winter at the weekend and now has enough ice to support a person on a small quad bike or similar. Now that it’s frozen for the winter, the ice will start to build and will eventually reach a thickness [...]

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