Where Sweden is your oyster
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Nicholas Roe, writing in the UK’s Times, describes the Nordic Oyster Opening Championships, being held in Grebbestad, north of Gothenburg. The event “sounds like a joke, but is, in fact, exactly the kind of festival that matters around here”.
Roe came seeking molluscs but found much more:
Outside, all was tranquil. Inside, a blonde with a mike was shouting at 200 mild, but cheery, seafood enthusiasts as 20 oystermen psyched themselves up for crustacean wars, sinking beer and cradling wicked knives. Speakers boomed the strains of Chariots of Fire. I had found the Swedish soul at play.
