Swedish Ways: Valborgsmässoafton
On the final day of April, Swedes take to lighting big bonfires and sing to celebrate the coming of spring and to …
Swedish Ways: Långfredagen
Because I’ve been really busy with work recently, and because today is a Bank Holiday, I’m actually going to take a little …
Swedish Ways: Våffeldagen (with recipe!)
It’s that time again! Today, we put the clocks forward one hour – in fact, by the time we’ve woken up today, …
Swedish Ways: Fettisdagen
Shrove Tuesday, you say? Fat Tuesday (fettisdagen) we say! Instead of pancakes, we eat something called a semla. The semla is a …
Swedish Ways: Tjugondedag Knut
Admittedly, I could have gone for the obvious one – Friday the 13th – but seeing as how there’s about three of …
Swedish Ways: Trettonhelgen
This is only about a week overdue as the day in question was last Thursday! Trettondagsafton and Trettondagen (last Friday), indeed all …
Låt den rätte komma in – Let the Right One In (2008)
Film review: Låt den rätte komma in [Let the Right One In] (2008), directed by Tomas Alfredson, written by John Ajvide Lindqvist …
Swedish Ways: Nyårsdagen
How a Swede spent last night sort of dictates how Nyårsdagen (New Year’s Day) is spent. If you were full up on …
Swedish Ways: Nyårsafton
This is the first post of this year’s theme, which is oh so imaginatively called: Swedish Ways. This is a theme focusing …