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
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
Film review: Låt den rätte komma in [Let the Right One In] (2008), directed by Tomas Alfredson, written by John Ajvide Lindqvist Currently keeping up
How a Swede spent last night sort of dictates how Nyårsdagen (New Year’s Day) is spent. If you were full up on drink and didn’t
This is the first post of this year’s theme, which is oh so imaginatively called: Swedish Ways. This is a theme focusing on the year