Thousands of holidaymakers and commuters were caught up in travel chaos as a fire in Stockholm sparked train delays just a day before one of Sweden's biggest holidays.
Having a tough time getting your head around Sweden? Fortunately it's now possible to get to know the Nordic nation through emojis – or 'Swemojis', to be specific. Sarah Falck from online language portal bab.la has picked out five that will give you a great all-round grasp of Swedish culture and its mysterious ways.
Karin Fürst, who will be 90 in August, always bakes this delicious cake for Midsummer! And no wonder: it is such a treat, so why change a winning formula!
Sweden’s Midsummer celebrations involve many wonderful traditions. Making a floral crown, dancing around the maypole, and the all-important singing about small frogs. Then there's the drinking.
Everyone in Sweden wants to be outside and possibly even singing the frog song on Midsummer Eve. But the forecast this year looks even more unpredictable than usual.
Midsummer can be a wonderful holiday, but what if the traditional celebrations are starting to grow old, or you happen to be away from Sweden during the festivities? Fear not: The Local promises to inspire with our pick of five alternative ways to celebrate Swedish Midsummer.
The Swedish summer has been a changeable one so far, with the month of June alone seeing temperatures on the west coast soaring and snow falling in the north within a two week period.
A Swedish synchronized swimming team have performed their world champion routine while drunk – to highlight the dangers of drinking and diving during the summer months.
Swedish farmers have warned of a strawberry shortage at next week's Midsummer celebrations, describing it as a “disaster” for both Swedish people and for strawberry growers.
Swedes sure know how to celebrate in unusual ways and Midsummer is no exception. From upside-down phallic worshipping to dancing like miniature amphibians, we gathered our favourite ten parts of Midsummer, and filmed Swedes explaining it all.
Wreaths, tipple tunes, phallic worship... French exchange student Elodie Pradet has survived her first Swedish Midsummer, and wonders how she will ever explain it to her friends back home without making them think Swedes are crazy.
Midsummer Eve is the most dangerous day to be out on the roads in Sweden, with 60 traffic accidents last year. To make sure everyone reaches the maypole in one piece, the Transport Administration has issued traffic advice.
Despite the long, cold winter, strawberry growers in Sweden have announced that this year's harvest has survived and will be ready to be gobbled down in line with Swede's dessert-table traditions at Midsummer.
Despite two deaths on Swedish roads over the long weekend, this year’s Midsummer holiday resulted in fewer fatal accidents than usual, with the bad weather a possible explanation for the quieter roads.
