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Crayfish: the messiest party of the year

Lifestyle: 19 Aug 11
Gobbling crayfish is a 500 year old tradition in Sweden but the annual August crayfish parties can be a minefield for a first-timer. Contributor Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius advises on how to slurp like a native. READ »

Learning Swedish the easy way

Lifestyle: 16 Aug 11
If you thought that Swedes' excellent English excused you from learning Swedish, think again. But learning Swedish needn't be daunting, with courses offering total immersion by staying in the teacher's home. READ »

The Lowdown: Christmas in Sweden

Lifestyle: 23 Dec 10
Jellied pigs’ feet, Donald Duck and a goat-riding gnome may not be your typical global Christmas symbols, but for Swedes they’re all part of the fun, writes Jennifer Heape. READ »

Century-old steamers inspire awe and nostalgia

Travel: 30 Jul 10
AFP's Francois Campredon savours a bygone era on vintage Stockholm steamer S/S Storskär, which is over 100 years old, as it cruises through the archipelago and the Baltic Sea for an annual summer steamship parade. READ »

How to survive the Christmas buffet without looking like an idiot

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Dec 09
Does the herring lead us into Jansson's temptation or is it the other way around? Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius has the lowdown on how to prevent your office julbord from ending in yuletide tears. READ »

What's on in Sweden: June 19 - 25

Lifestyle: 18 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Morrissey & Midsummer fun in Stockholm; AC/DC & Euro 2009 U-21 football in Gothenburg; Yasmina Reza's ART in Malmö. READ »

Walking in nature is unnatural

Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 09
While pondering the remembrance of things past, Jeanne Rudbeck decides she'd much rather sip a latte in the city than flee Stockholm for Nature with the rest of the population. READ »

Swedish Easter snaps lovers crave company of Mede or Nyqvist

Society: 8 Apr 09
Actor Mikael Nyqvist and comedian Petra Mede are the number one Easter drinking partners of choice, according to a survey polling 1,000 men and women about the Swedish celebrity with whom they would most like to sip snaps. READ »

Swede named in White House chef speculation

Society: 26 Nov 08
Swedish chef Marcus Samuelsson, founder of New York’s acclaimed Aquavit restaurant, is among those being tipped as possible candidates to prepare meals for Barack Obama at the White House. READ »

Fermented herring - a smelly Swedish speciality

Lifestyle: 23 Aug 08
Every year on the third Thursday in August, Swedes gather with friends and family to celebrate the start of the season for fermented Baltic herring, or surströmming as it is called in Swedish. AFP's Pauline Conradsson was there to share in the fun. READ »

Bold new hotel offers rooftop pool and design delights

Lifestyle: 5 Feb 08
Charlotte West has had a snoop around the new Clarion Hotel Sign, which opens its doors to the public this week. READ »

Olde Sweden on a plate

Travel: 29 Jun 07
Jeanne Rudbeck goes in search of an endangered Swedish species: the classic smörgåsbord. She finds it being well cared for by another great Swedish institution. READ »

Singing ambassadors rock Stockholm's diplomatic scene

Lifestyle: 24 Jun 07
Move over ABBA, Stockholm's best-kept musical secret and local hit is the diplomatic corps, a group of emissaries from around the globe who meet regularly to sing Swedish folk songs. READ »

The refined art of fermented fish

Lifestyle: 22 Sep 06
It's one of the hardest Swedish culinary traditions for foreigners – and many Swedes – to understand: the annual fest of surströmming. READ »

Swedish beer: things can only get better

Lifestyle: 25 Aug 06
There is more to Swedish beer than mass-produced lager. Eddie de Oliveira reports that a new wave of microbreweries are in danger of giving Swedish beer a good name. READ »

Skansen?s hill is alive with the sound of music

Lifestyle: 4 Jul 06
There is nothing more quintessentially Swedish than the nation's love of singing, and nothing symbolizes this love more perfectly than Allsång på Skansen, the summer song fest that has run since 1935. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius explains. READ »

Road officials warn of Midsummer madness

National: 23 Jun 06
It could be a crazy weekend on Sweden's roads. Last year, 11 people died in car accidents during the Midsummer holiday, and there were 32 crashes in the Stockholm area alone. READ »

Midsummer: Sweden's real national day

Lifestyle: 21 Jun 06
Forget June 6th – Sweden's real national day is Midsummer's Eve, and you'd be hard pressed to find a Swede not dreaming of a red cottage, a lake (and a mildly suggestive Maypole). READ »

The joys of Jul

Lifestyle: 21 Dec 05
Don't miss The Local's Tricky Christmas Quiz!
Swedes know how to make the most out of Christmas – not least by stretching it to the middle of January. Today, Jul is a jolly mix of pagan and Christian traditions combined with a good dose of commercialism. READ »

Herring shortage spells problems for potent Swedish dish

National: 13 May 05
One of the strangest Swedish delicacies could be a lot harder to find this year. “Rotten herring”, or surströmming, could be affected by a catastrophic decline in catches. READ »


Highlights from Follow Sweden

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »


Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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'Drunkorexia' on the rise in Sweden: report
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Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind
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Star Wars in Swedish causes fan outrage
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The Swedish language needs a new pronoun free of preconceived notions about gender, a Swedish linguist and representatives from a publishing house argue
Madonna set for July 4th concert in Sweden
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Madonna set for July 4th concert in Sweden
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An inside look at 'The Office' in Swedish
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Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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A duvet cover designed to look like cardboard boxes, on sale at a luxury department store in Stockholm, has some arguing that the city's homeless are being exploited for profit.
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Five Swedish songs that never made Eurovision
Q&A with Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley
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Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley explains how ‘three bespectacled English guys’ plan to make Swedes laugh
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Move over Bugs – a Swedish bunny is rapidly becoming the most popular rabbit in the world!
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How Millennium films tap deep into Swedish angst
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Braving the cold: Ten reasons to spend winter in Sweden
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A truly international education at the heart of Berlin
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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