Today, Norway celebrate their release from the union with Sweden. They celebrate it passionately, so happy are they to be rid of us. Ahh well.
The first of May, första maj, is a red letter day in Sweden. Emphasis on red. You could stay at home nursing a hangover from
On the final day of April, Swedes take to lighting big bonfires and sing to celebrate the coming of spring and to be free of
Glad påsk! In Britain, Easter seems to only mean two bank holidays, chocolate eggs and Biblical adaptations on telly. In Sweden, aside from the extra
Because I’ve been really busy with work recently, and because today is a Bank Holiday, I’m actually going to take a little break, and not
It’s that time again! Today, we put the clocks forward one hour – in fact, by the time we’ve woken up today, it will have
Shrove Tuesday, you say? Fat Tuesday (fettisdagen) we say! Instead of pancakes, we eat something called a semla. The semla is a cardamom spiced bun
Admittedly, I could have gone for the obvious one – Friday the 13th – but seeing as how there’s about three of them this year,
This is only about a week overdue as the day in question was last Thursday! Trettondagsafton and Trettondagen (last Friday), indeed all of Trettonhelgen (Thursday