Ancient myth and lore tells us of several fantastic and wondrous cities, which are for the most part lost or hidden to regular mortals. The great lost city of Atlantis, long ago sunk beneath the ocean waves. Bonny Brigadoon, only appearing in the misty Scottish highlands once every hundred years. And Chako Paul City in Sweden, full of Nordic lesbains.

No, not really, if such a perfect thing were to exist it would signal Ragnarok. The legend of the sapphic city states that it was founded in 1820 by a man-hating widow, who encouraged all like-minded young nordic lasses to come and live in the city for some healthy outdoor calisthenics and lots of salads.

The city is purported to today contain 25 000 residents, all of them Scandinavian lesbains. The lure of such a city is such that when reports surfaced in Chinese media, literally million of calls flooded into Sweden’s various tourist agencies asking how one goes about organising a Con Tiki Tour to Chako Paul.

Now of course this city is merely a myth, a product of someone’s fertile imagination. Claes Bertilson from the local tourism agency says as much in response to media inquiries about the legendary town-

“At 25,000 residents, the town would be one of the largest in northern Sweden, and I find it hard to believe that you could keep something like that a secret for more than 150 years”

Of course, if I lived next to a city of tens of thousands of beautiful lesbians, I’d probably want to keep it to myself as well, so take him with a grain of salt.