The Swede’s have no shortage of Christmas traditions, and living here we have been more than happy to embrace them, and mix them in with our British ones, for a multicultural Christmas celebration. I’m going to share with you my top 15 Swedish Christmas Traditions. Sit back and enjoy, and you never know, you may want to adopt a few …
A Swedish Christmas – Learn How To Do Christmas Like a Swede
The Swede’s have no shortage of Christmas traditions, and living here we have been more than happy to embrace them, and mix them in with our British ones, for a multicultural Christmas celebration. I’m going to share with you my top 13 Swedish Christmas Traditions. Sit back and enjoy, and you never know, you may want to adopt a few …
Pepparkakor – Make A Swedish Winter Biscuit
Pepparkakor are everywhere throughout winter, at every celebration, end of swimming lessons, scouts’ Christmas party, or stockpiled in your cupboards. Usually accompanied by a very welcome mug of glögg (mulled wine), these thin festively spicy biscuits are very moorish. Try our recipe and let me know how you get on in the comments below. These lovely little innocuous Swedish biscuits have a …
A Children’s Outdoor Gift Guide – Gifts That Will Get Used
We are rapidly hurtling towards Christmas, so I have decided to put together a children’s outdoor gift guide to help give you some inspiration of great ideas for both presents under the tree, and some stocking fillers too 🙂 These are more practical gifts in this outdoor gift guide that the child (or grown up) can then use. A Children’s …
St.Lucia – Discover A Swedish Winter Tradition
On December 13th, all over Sweden, the day of St.Lucia is celebrated. There are costumes, candles, lights, buns, drinks, and singing 🙂 So who is St.Lucia? Along with the celebration of midsummer, the celebration of St.Lucia is a very popular cultural tradition here in Sweden. The idea behind this mythical character is that she has the role of bearing light …