‘You live in your own bubble’: Swedish city takes on loneliness with a simple hi | Sweden

On the snowy shore of the northern Swedish city of Luleå, where, despite it being -10C, bathers are lowering themselves into a rectangular hole in the frozen seawater. The sun is already disappearing, and it is barely 2pm. Soon, in a month’s time, there will be just three hours of daylight every day.