The luxury mansion the place Sven-Goran Eriksson spent the ultimate years of his life is up on the market for what is being described as a ‘bargain’ value. Björkefors Manor, on the banks of Lake Fryken, is about in a sprawling and secluded property full with beautifully-saved gardens, woodland and a personal seashore. Svenn ‘left his private mark on each the interior and exterior’ of the seven-bedroom property, in keeping with agent Sotheby’s. The 13-room house covers 835 square metres and has a excessive-end kitchen, multiple reception rooms for entertaining, a library and six bathrooms. He purchased it early in the early days of his profession as England manager in 2002 for 5.8million Swedish Krona (£420,000) and carried out a full renovation on the late 19th century property. Outdoors is a 250 square metre poolhouse which is complete with a saltwater pool, a spa, sauna, jacuzzi, relaxation space and gym. The property can be full with a tennis court docket, waterside gazebos, a jetty, a motorized floating platform and a lagoon-formed sandy cove.

Pointing ahead, he said: ‘The mountain, beneath that mountain is where my father grew up.

Björkefors Manor was owned by Sven-Geran Eriksson for 22 years. A detached villa was constructed in the grounds in 2005, whereas a standalone guesthouse is also positioned close to the waterfront. In the course of the summer time months, Eriksson is claimed to have had two part-time employees residing in the grounds who helped him run the expansive property. Sotheby’s broker Henrik Flinta advised local media that a Swedish national residing in Switzerland had shown interest within the property earlier than Christmas. There are various international consumers who have started taking a look at Sweden. When it gets too hot in some components of the world like Spain, they arrive right here,’ he stated. Despite being on the marketplace for greater than five months and being listed at a decrease price than it previously fetched, Sven’s beloved dwelling remains to be in search of a buyer. The lakeside dwelling has a jetty and motorized floating platform. In a video shared by Amazon Prime Video Sport just days earlier than his dying, he was filmed sitting beside his ‘calming’ Swedish lake house where he stated he wished for his ashes to be scattered. Speaking of Lake Fryken in a documentary released shortly earlier than his loss of life final 12 months, the soccer boss said that the realm felt ‘like residence’. Sitting by Lake Fryken, he says within the documentary: ‘Beautiful place. Pointing ahead, he said: ‘The mountain, beneath that mountain is where my father grew up. And if you look straight on, that’s Torsby, the place I grew up, and Sunne the place I used to be born. It makes you calm. He led the proficient squad to quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, and on the 2004 European Championships. He also managed Swedish, Portuguese and Italian clubs, winning main trophies in the 1980s and nineties before taking on the England job.

The former Three Lions supervisor lived out his days in the opulent house together with his partner Yaniseth Alcides, and stated shortly before his loss of life that he would like his ashes spread by the lake which he considered to be his ‘house’. His beloved dwelling of 22 years, the old farmhouse was put up for sale shortly after his dying. A lot of the worldwide soccer supervisor’s family nonetheless dwell within the town, together with his 95-yr-outdated father, and his funeral was held there final yr. The property doubtless captured Sven’s heart for its charm but in addition the truth that it is situated between between Sunne, the city the place Eriksson was born, and Torsby, the place he grew up. The home is positioned in a distant area overlooking a mountain around four hours’ drive west of Stockholm. He determined to buy the waterside mansion throughout a celebration on a ship out on the lake it overlooks, in line with Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet.

Shocking footage has emerged of the moment a speedboat carrying British vacationers in Thailand ran aground and smashed violently into trees, prompting screams from these on board. Footage exhibits the panicked holidaymakers clinging onto their seats and cowering as they braced for impact. The vessel leapt from the water and skidded across land, slicing through branches and leaves in a mangrove forest. Ellie Georgia stated: ‘Our speedboat crashed at excessive speed onto land whereas travelling from Koh Lipe to Koh Lanta. The driver misplaced management and smashed into the trees. It was the scariest factor that happened to me on the journey. When the speedboat halted, the vacationers have been heard asking one another if they had sustained any accidents. Whereas the island-hoppers appeared traumatised, no one was seriously harm. The incident transpired the identical week that a trio of young British girls had been amongst 11 wounded in Thailand when a whole trunk of a wormwood tree slammed onto the roof of a bus in Kanchanaburi.

The windshield was shattered. The injured people had been dashed to the native Synphaet Hospital for therapy. Initial inspection discovered a minimum of 30 overseas passengers. A lot of the passengers suffered minor accidents and have already been discharged. A Canadian vacationer, Jaime Michelle Mitchell, 45, was taken to the ICU with a neck splint. Land transport official Thawatchai Wiriyajit mentioned will shoulder the patients’ hospital bills. Unqualified boat operators usually take risks – venturing into choppy seas solely for their vessels to capsize – and lots of the public transport autos are extremely old. The worst accident in recent times was in November 2018 when a ferry sank in rough seas off the coast of Phuket killing dozens of Chinese language tourists. Thailand’s largely unregulated ‘Wild West’ tourism business has turn out to be infamous for its lack of health and security. In August 2020, a ferry sank off the coast of Koh Samui leaving no less than three lifeless. And simply final month, a South Korean holidaymaker died when a boat capsized near the island of Koh Phangan in Surat Thani province.

A 19-12 months-previous, from London, another 19-year-outdated, from Welwyn Backyard Metropolis, and an 18-yr-outdated, from Oxford, were onboard the 54-yr-outdated vehicle when the tree fell. Nail-biting footage captured by a automotive travelling behind the bus exhibits the tree slowly collapsing on to the roof of the bus. It had been hacked down by an unlawful logger utilizing a chainsaw, in accordance with native reports. The driver of the blue bus skidded the car across the highway because the holidaymakers on board screamed in terror, coming inside just a few feet of plunging down a hillside. When police arrived on the scene, they found 36 passengers inside, adding that 11, including the British women, have been rushed to hospital for therapy. Police Lieutenant Colonel Maneephat Pengklet, investigator at the Lat Ya Police Station, club adaman beach hotel in phuket (phuket.thaibounty.com) mentioned cops have been notified of the accident at 10am on Friday. He said: ‘On the scene on Highway No. 3199, a blue Benz passenger bus was discovered. It was headed to the Erawan Waterfall and a wormwood tree on the facet of the street had fallen on it.