Valentine’s Day is approaching, and you might be planning to do something special together with your spouse. Or maybe you’re single but planning to ask a certain interesting person out? In either case, this year you could try something different from the traditional “dinner and movie” date. In this blog post, we’ve collected a few different date ideas from Sweden, Germany, Spain and England. Feel free to try these at home! Not romantically involved at the moment or have nobody…
These days, Christmas is celebrated in some form almost everywhere, but every country has its own ways of putting its unique flavour to it. We have collected a few examples of Christmas celebrations around the world. Maybe you’ll be inspired to try some of these traditions at home! Light in darkness – Sweden Saint Lucia’s Day has been celebrated on December 13 for over 400 years, and Swedes excel at it. The most important part of the celebration is a…
Magic, fire and open-air dancing: Midsummer celebrations in Finland, Sweden and Spain
June 20, 2017We Finns believe that Midsummer is the second best party of the year (Christmas is the best). Midsummer in the north is all about sauna, barbecue, bonfires, dancing and magic (one of the most popular rituals is to run around the dewy fields naked). In addition to the abovementioned activities, Swedes also like to erect maypoles and dance around them. In both countries, people head out of the cities to their summer cottages already on Thursday or Friday morning to decorate…