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The honesty and security you find in Sweden Posted by on Dec 19, 2011

One of the things I am very proud of when it comes to Sweden is the honesty of people. If you loose your wallet or forget your phone people run after you to hand it back, they also hand in the wallet to the police station with all the money and cards still remaining…

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An all time favorite conversation starter :) Posted by on Dec 11, 2011

Generally speaking, a good conversation starter is the weather. And so  it can be good to have some good phrases up you sleeve. “Visst är det fint väder idag?” Isn’t it nice weather today? “Fint” is the adjective, but can be substituted for a number of other words as well, depending on what you want…

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Lussekatter, Lussebullar and Lusselängd Posted by on Dec 5, 2011

What would the thirteenth of December be without Lussekatter,Lussebullar ( practically the same thing) or a gorgeous lusselängd? For all of you who want to try making the Swedish Lussekatter this year, here is another recipe for you. It isn’t difficult at all, and very delicious. Lusselängd Makes about: 30 buns or two längder Ingredients…

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Pepparkaksbak Posted by on Nov 23, 2011

To get you all in a lovely spirit of Christmas I’m going to share a recipe for Swedish Pepparkakor. It is relatively easy to make so you should all have a go 🙂 Time needed: Has to cool over night in fridge Makes about: 125 cookies Ingredients: 2,5 dl (1 cup) brown sugar 0,8 dl…

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Christmas in preparation Posted by on Nov 22, 2011

Christmas means different things to different people, I’m sure that that is a commonly agreed on fact by now. For a lot of people christmas has no longer anything to do with the birth of Jesus, it can be summed up with presents, Santa, snow and holidays. In Sweden food and family are huge contributing…

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Monopoly, but just not the board game! Posted by on Nov 15, 2011

As many, if not all of you know, Sweden has a strict monopoly on its alcohol sales. It is only “Systembolaget”, the name of the organization, that is allowed to sell alcohol over 3,5% in all of Sweden.   There are a total of 416 stores and 508 agents who are allowed to sell alcohol…

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Halloween in Sweden Posted by on Nov 8, 2011

This past week there has been big confusion over what day Halloween actually should be celebrated on. So a lot of people just started celebrating on the 30th and continued to just about the day before yesterday i.e. 6th of November. The reason for this most likely being the Swedish holiday “Alla helgons dag” which…

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