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Stockholm’s famous Thai Boat
About one minute’s walk from our apartment lies Stockholm’s famous‘Thai Boat’, a boat/deck/beach restaurant that also has two speed boats and a Tuk Tuk, plus chefs flown in from Thailand. It is so...
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Celebrating universal suffrage in Sweden in 2021
The Swedish Parliament, the Riksdag, is celebrating 100 years of universal suffrage. In 1919, Sweden removed the requirement that voters had to be men, and in 1921 the first woman – Kerstin Hesselgren...
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Swedish candy
I was asked a few days ago if I could do a post on Swedish candy (or as we say in British English, sweets) It is my very great pleasure! I have always had a sweet tooth. All my life I have wanted...
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Floating car
In Sweden there is a car company – Go More – where you can lease or rent a car. You can even rent out your own car to others. Go More have a ‘Share or Sink’ campaign in the summer where you can take...
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Some photographs from our ride on Thursday
Ascension Thursday is a public holiday in Sweden and the weather was glorious so we went for a day-long ride. It was the first really nice day this spring – sun, no wind and 22°C. Let’s hope there are...
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Disgusting foods
Surströmming (fermented Baltic Sea herring) has become famous on social media over recent years as Sweden’s famously disgusting food. Every country is supposed to have a disgusting or strange food –...
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Pfizer second dose done and dusted
Yesterday I had my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. In Sweden, those who received their first vaccination before June 1 are called within six weeks for their second dose. If you received your first...
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What a few weeks it’s been
Usually my workload drops after the Swedish Riksdag closes for summer recess. My students and I were looking forward to being able to do things we had neglected during the hectic spring. The Parliament...
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Strange Wikipedia fact about Sweden
Sveavägen, Stockholm There are more restored 1950s American cars in Sweden than in the entire United States. Although only two 1958 Cadillac convertibles were sold in Sweden, there are now 200 of them...
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Mälaren runt
On Saturday we went on our annual motorbike rally around Lake Mälaren in the Stockholm area. 2019 was the last ‘normal’ rally. Meaning that about 20 000 people took part, there was an official group...
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Sweden’s housing market
One thing that is really strange for newcomers to Sweden is the housing market. Stockholm’s queue for rent-controlled housing is so long it’s being considered for the Guinness Book of World Records....
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What is a flat white?
I grew up drinking instant coffee. Well, not pure coffee, but a mix of coffee and chicory. Chicory was used in many countries as a coffee substitute during WWII, but in present-day South Africa the...
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About leaving your homeland
The sculpture above is by Frances Bruno Catalano, and symbolizes the hole created by leaving your country, your people, your life, everything you know. No matter the reason. Nothing has encapsulated...
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It pays to have manners
I saw this sign outside a local coffee shop. Translated from Swedish it says: Manners ‘a coffee’ 48kr ‘a coffee please’ 37kr ‘good morning! A coffee please’ 27kr Swedish as a language is much...
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Spring is coming!
This last weekend we went out on our first ride of the season. It was sunny and (relatively) warm at 12°C. Fine bike weather if you bundle up a little. Normally we start riding at end of April or the...
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Engagement and wedding ring customs from around the world
I have made some edits to this post and am reposting. When I got engaged about four years ago, I posted photographs of our plain gold bands on social media, and almost everyone who was not Swedish...
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