Being asked to take a cabin holiday in the Swedish wilderness in order to judge how it affects your mood has to rank up there with ‘being paid to eat cake’ in terms of things we’d very much like but doubt would ever happen.

However some lucky folk are doing just that (the cabin thing, not the cake thing) thanks to Sweden’s tourist board, which is undertaking a study to “investigate the health effects of life within Swedish nature” and to explore the benefits of switching off from modern life.

The cabins, located on Henriksholm Island, are made almost entirely of glass (presumably there are no neighbours in the middle of nowhere) so that stressed-out participants can wind down as close to nature as possible.

The minibreak will last 72 hours so the cabin residents can “take pleasure in common Swedish outdoor, off-the-grid activities, such as swimming, fishing and cooking.”

Sweden is offering stressed people beautiful cabins in the wilderness