AFK Retreats

05/12/2019

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14/09/2019

Guess what's back?

Putting the feelers out for a last minute trip to Swedish Lapland this year from the 26th December to 1st January. We're collaborating with the legendary Ayaz Ali this time with AFK Retreats. He'll be delivering photography workshops and helping us co-host the tour. As it's last minute, spaces are limited to just 8 people. So please nudge us if you'd like to go. And soon! Flights are filling up for Christmas and getting expensive 😛

Also - check out the funky new website! >

https://www.afk.rest/norsjo-2019

01/04/2019

Join us on a 9 day tour of the Isle of Dragonstone later this year. You'll get to explore the old Targaryen stronghold with the aid of a licenced tour guide. Meet the endangered species of dragons found on the island and find out about how the locals are working hard in trying to preserve the wildlife.

visit www.afk.rest/dragonstone

02/03/2019

Highlights from our recent trip to Swedish Lapland in December 2018. We took a small group of visitors and explored the regions near Norsjö. We travelled on horseback in Svansele, visited deer in Jörn and went husky sledding in Lycksele.

We'd like to thank our friends over at Wild Lapland and Horses of Taiga

Interested in joining us for the next one?
Visit www.afk.rest/norsjo-2019 to register your interest!

Filmed entirely with the new DJI Osmo Pocket. All the aerial shots are done with a DJI Mavic Air.

Filmed by Robi Chowdhury (www.robichowdhury.com)

18/02/2019

For a bit of escape on Monday morning, check out our film with highlights from our recent trip to Swedish Lapland. Sorry in advance for the FOMO.

(Thank you to our friends at Wild Lapland, Horses of Taiga and of course Turab and his family, for letting us use his beautiful house for the trip)

To register your interest for our next one, please visit www.afk.rest/norsjo-2019

Highlights from our recent trip to Swedish Lapland in December 2018. We took a small group of visitors and explored the regions near Norsjö. We travelled on ...

06/02/2019

Wild Lapland.

An aerial view of Lycksele in Swedish Lapland from our recent group trip in December for -

(Thank you to our friends at Wild Lapland for allowing us to take some snaps from above. You can see their offices and the husky pens at the bottom of the photograph)

DJI

25/01/2019

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03/01/2019

Giveaway time! We're giving away this amazing creative field guide and journal by The Mindfulness Project (we're absolutely in love with it and thought you would be too)

To win, answer the following question below as a comment. Most creative one wins!

If you were invisible for 12 hours, what would you do?

31/12/2018

We went horseriding with Icelandic horses today on Day 4 of our trip. The snowfall had begun again (which made it feel like we were in a giant snow globe)

30/12/2018

Day 3 and we're in Lycksele meeting huskies and sledding with them for a few hours courtesy of our friends over at Wild Lapland - the temperature has climbed down to -15 degrees tonight! We'll be staying up to look for auroras (wrapped up first though obviously) @ Lycksele

29/12/2018

Day 2 on our trip and we went to Jörn to see a herd of reindeer (and feed them!). We also got the opportunity to enjoy an amazing meal at Källan Hotell Spa Konferens too @ Jörn

29/12/2018

We've finally arrived at Bjurträsk and spent the first day orientating around the local area. We also had a night hike between Bjurträsk and Norsjö to try and find the auroras.

05/12/2018

'Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.'

Jamie Lyn Beatty

📸 Bernice Tong

29/11/2018

29/11/2018

27/11/2018

With exactly a month to go, start figuring out excuses and packing your bags.

We've still got some spaces left on our trip to Swedish Lapland (follow the link in our bio)

26/11/2018

Stay curious. Do something new today.

📸 Julien Muzzard

24/11/2018

AFK Norsjo 2018 update and Q&A

23/11/2018

A few tips on how to boost your creativity

Get creative. Post to Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1kXGdIf Like BuzzFeedVideo on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1ilcE7k Post to Twitter: http://bit.ly/1kQ14mB Music:...

22/11/2018

Travel Photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich touches on a few hard truths about travel and photography of people! Always a great reminder. We had the amazing Suzanne Porter with us in Marrakech last year who mirrored a lot of what Mitchell mentions here > http://ow.ly/LsLg30mI4GI

This video was an important one for me to make. It’s rare that someone publicly talks about the less positive side of travel and photography of people. When ...

20/11/2018

Depth, light, shadows and stories.

📸 Ken Huang 🌎 Taipei City, Taiwan

20/11/2018

Reach the edge of your comfort zone and keep walking.

18/11/2018

Anguria.

📸 Cristina Gottardi 🌎 Florence, Italy

18/11/2018

"It was quiet. Very quiet. No neighbours, no cars on the street, no noise. Just me, my love and her passion for drawing…"

📸 Roman Kraft 🌎 Berlin, Germany

17/11/2018

Mexico’s island archipelago Revillagigedo — Off the coast of Baja California is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was declared a marine reserve and national park in 2017.

It's rare to find a school of sharks so close one to another and also close to the beautiful reef. The picture was taken 4 months before Mexico’s government finally declared it a marine reserve — in part thanks to Mexico’s President’s admiration of Leonardo Di Caprio and the actor’s work in wildlife conservation, despite years of work by many others too.

📸 Francisco Jesús Navarro Hernández
🌎 Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico

17/11/2018

Pause. Reflect. Refine - The creed of a creative

📸 Alexander Popov 🌎 Moscow, Russia

16/11/2018

If tomorrow was today, where would you go?

📸 Luke Richardson 🌎 Canada

04/11/2018

Hey all :) Just letting you all know that we're running a flash sale for our Swedish Lapland trip that's ending later today at 11pm.

Right now, for just £1500, we're covering 6 nights stay, flights, transfers, food, activities (horse riding, husky sledding, guided hikes, visiting reindeer & more) as well as a host of painting activities, film screenings and creative workshops within the house.

Offer ends at 11pm GMT tonight - Find out more by visiting the link below and let us know if you have any questions.

Join us on a journey through snow-filled forests, over frozen lakes and to open skies with thousands of stars and if we’re lucky, dancing auroras too!

04/09/2018

We're offering a couples discount for our Norsjo trip in December! Find out more on our swanky landing page >

After our successful trip last year, we’re headed back to Swedish Lapland for a winter wonderland retreat for what promises to be the journey of a lifetime. We will take you on a journey through snow-filled forests, over frozen lakes and to open skies with thousands of stars and if we’re lucky, ...

04/04/2018

Whether you're Van Gogh or a stick-figure sketcher, a new Drexel University study found that making art can significantly reduce stress-related hormones in ...