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    Read Text B and answer Question 3 on the question paper.

    Text B: A night among the trees

    The writer of this review has just returned from a visit to the Treehotel, in northern Sweden.

    Recently, I watched a documentary film called ‘The Tree Lover’ – all about the link between trees and
    people. In the film, director Jonas Augustsén says: ‘Imagine relaxing here on summer evenings ...’. He’s
    sitting in a treehouse he’s spent months building, looking out over a wide forest lit by the setting sun.

    And guess what? It turns out you don’t have to just imagine it. Since the Treehotel in northern Sweden
    opened last month, you too can live out your childhood dream and holiday in a treehouse, surveying the
    landscape. I simply had to try it out!

    The well-hidden Treehotel is the creation of guesthouse owners, Britta and Kent Lindvall, who were inspired
    by Augustsén’s film to create this back-to-nature retreat where guests can switch off and breathe more
    deeply.

    An area of forest behind their guesthouse had been sold for logging. Instead of waiting for the inevitable to
    happen in a country where forestry is such an important industry, they persuaded the forest’s new owner to
    sell it to them. With help from various architect friends, they planned the innovative designs of the Treehotel,
    determined to demonstrate that the natural forest environment had value beyond supplying timber.

    On arrival, I was greeted by Britta, who explained, ‘Guests usually leave their luggage here and just take a
    small overnight bag to the treehouses. We want them to get the feeling that they’re leaving one world behind
    and entering another.’

    Britta led me along a narrow path through a glade of birch trees, explaining as we walked why the couple
    want to share their passion for this beautiful forest environment with guests. We arrived at the Mirrorcube.
    The most striking of the treehouses, it’s a glass box perched high in the forest. Like an architectural magic
    trick, it almost disappears into the foliage, so sharply are the surrounding trees reflected in it.

    Inside, the Mirrorcube, like the hotel’s other treehouses, facilities are fairly basic, not stretching much
    beyond an environmentally-friendly toilet – meals and showers are taken at the guesthouse, over 10
    minutes’ walk away. Still, underfloor heating will keep it cosy through winter. Reflective cladding means no
    one can see in but you can see out – you have an almost 360-degree view of the surrounding trees. There’s
    even a window in the ceiling to look up into the sky.

    When I woke the next morning, it was a shock to find a bird seeming to be peering back at me through the
    glass. It was tempting to spend the day in my own little nest but I wanted to explore. I went to take a peek at
    the Cabin, a sleek, organically-shaped space pod touched down in the treetops about 50 metres from the
    Mirrorcube. Also sleeping two, this one has a huge viewing platform – in summer you can actually sleep out
    under the open sky (safe from mosquitoes as they don’t fly 10 metres up in the air). Just behind it is the four-
    person Bird’s Nest, and the Blue Cone, scheduled for completion next month. A fifth and final treehouse in
    the collection, the UFO, opens at the end of October.
    Later, over breakfast, Kent talked enthusiastically about village walking tours where guests can stop for
    coffee, cake and conversation with a local family. Unsurprisingly, given their deeply rooted commitment to
    the forest, the Lindvalls built the Treehotel sustainably – the Mirrorcube is even fitted with an infrared film,
    visible to birds only, that stops them flying into it – and activities such as noisy snowmobile safaris are
    definitely out! So, will I be visiting again? Absolutely.

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