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Swedish Culture

Shane to go to Melodifestivalen final!

March 4, 2010

I have blogged before on how much the Swedes love Eurovision. I have also blogged on Melodifestivalen. These are the heats held in various Swedish towns to find the ultimate winner that will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest.
I watched Melodifestivalen once and vowed not to watch it again. I cant say I am [...]

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Swedish Celebrities

January 25, 2010

I will try and make this a weekly feature. More Swedish Celebrities from the Fokus list of the ‘100 people who made the 00 decade.’
I take out the foreign ones and concentrate on the Swedish ones in an effort to learn more about who is who!
Ok even I know the first one for todays Swedish [...]

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Swedish Celebrities

January 14, 2010

The thing about living abroad is I could be in the queue at the supermarket next to Swedens most famous living singer/actor/painter/playwright and not know! Its kind of nice in a way.
I am reading Fokus’s ‘100 people who made the 00 decade’ and thought it would be fun to blog on the Swedes who made [...]

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Skansen on New Years Eve

January 2, 2010

OK here are the photos from the Swedish New Years celebrations.

As I blogged before I dont think I have ever worn so many clothes at one time, but standing for an hour in -10 degrees celcius looking sexy goes out of the way. Well for me anyway!

I thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Even managed to understand [...]

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Free Royal Opera

August 16, 2009

Right now the Stockholm Kulturfestival is running.
Last night we went to watch the Royal Opera – Kungliga Operan play at Gustav Adolfs Torg. It was free as part of the festival and I was really impressed by them. Fantastic musicianship. It was outdoors which always adds something to an operatic performance and luckily the weather [...]

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celebrating a bajen victory with a…

July 5, 2009

Very Swedish dish called plankstek, although apparently it originates from Hungary. Anyway it was very nice…Mums! (thats yum in Swedish!) I was celebrating the Bajen win which I have posted on on Hammarby in English

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Small frogs

June 18, 2009

Yes its that time again! The Swedes go to town over Midsummer and we get a nice day off tomorrow. Miss P has invited me out to the island of Yxlan (means axe land!) in the Archipelago. There are a few of us going, should be good. I will take my fishing gear of course.
I [...]

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One chapter finishes another begins

April 25, 2009

Its one of the hottest weekends in Sweden since I have been here and I am…packing!
Yes my time at Mariatorget is drawing to a close. I first came here in January 2008, worried as I arranged everything online and had not even seen the flat.
I moved in with a firm belief that I would only [...]

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Easter Witches

April 9, 2009

How funny! I love living in a different country with different traditions. The UK/US has Halloween where the kids dress up and knock doors for sweets or cold hard cash.
The Swedes do things differently of course. They have Easter Witches, today is the day that the witches flew off to Blåkulla, so Swedish kids get [...]

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