Christmas cartoon
- Category: traditions
15:00 the 24th of december is holy in sweden. In Sweden Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve, with friends, family, a special holiday smorgasbord and heaps of gifts and sweets, not very different from how Christmas is celebrated in other cultures, Swedes have a very odd and peculiar tradition. At 15:00, or 3 pm, on […]
Read MoreThe Guitar Guy
- Category: mentality, music, traditions
Another strong Swedish tradition is the summer campfire musician aka the Guitar Guy. If you are having a barbeque, picnic or other outdoors get together chances are that the Guitar Guy is going to be there waiting with his guitar for the sun to set. Then he will take out his guitar and start strumming […]
Read MoreAllemansrätt
- Category: mentality, traditions, words
Allemansrätten, The Right of Public Access, is a unique and quite unusual right that everyone in Sweden, resident or tourist, can enjoy. It provides the possibility for everyone to enjoy and explore the Swedish nature freely. It allows you to visit somebody else’s land, to take a bath in or travel by boat on somebody […]
Read MoreThe old meets the new
- Category: music, traditions
Folk music has had a big influence on other genres in Swedish music culture and is often incorporated even in modern pieces, and the harmonies are often used again and again in everything from singer/songwriter pieces to house and jazz. The tradition lives on even in younger generations as we can see in the video […]
Read MoreFika
- Category: food, mentality, traditions, words
Fika is something that is very popular in Sweden and most of the swedes love it, you can say that it is a social tradition here. Fika means that you taking a break to drink good coffee or other drinks with friends, family or acquaintances at a cafe, in school, at the workplace or at […]
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