5 Ways To Celebrate Midsummer Similar A Swede

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Midsummer is arguably the virtually celebrated solar daytime inwards the Swedish calendar - as well as my all fourth dimension favourite! As amongst all Swedish festivities, the Swedes assemble the solar daytime earlier on Midsommarafton (Midsummer Eve) for a beautifully rustic affair involving wild flowers, in-seasonal goodies as well as dancing roughly a maypole - no affair the weather! Even if you're non inwards residing inwards this Nordic land, why non channel the Swedes - vesture flowers inwards your hair, eat, potable as well as hold out merry this weekend?! Here's my direct to v Midsummer musts!

1. Create a midsommarkrans - a crown made from wild flowers (or cheat a picayune as well as alternative upwards some beautiful fresh blooms from your local florist!). There's a handy pace yesteryear pace direct inwards my Lagom book as well as online here!   

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2. Dine alfresco - no affair the weather condition (in fact, midsummer weather condition inwards Sweden is known for beingness rainy as well as blowing a gale - but that never stops the revellry!).

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3. Tuck into sill o potatis - pickled herring as well as novel potatoes are a midsummer staple - but you lot could larn wild as well as create an entire Swedish smågårsbord. Extra points if you lot downward your fork in ane lawsuit inwards a spell as well as sing a ditty en masse!

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4. Eat the largest, juiciest strawberries you lot tin find -  alone, amongst fresh cream,  inwards a pie or fifty-fifty dipped inwards chocolate. As long every minute they're ruby-red as well as dotty, you're totally on point!

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5. Drink something on the rigid side - preferably homemade Akvavit (schnapps). My father-in-law makes a hateful Akvavit, but I withal similar mine tempered downward a picayune amongst wild elderflower syrup (that'll hold out the Brit at the tabular array then...!).

An as well as hence the eve is yours to sing, trip the low-cal fantastic as well as chat nether the midnight sun!

Oh as well as I don't suppose you lot convey a Maypole handy? If you lot do, it's customary to hop circular it similar a frog. Yep. Refer to betoken publish 5.

And finally, Swedish tradition dictates that if a unmarried adult woman gathers vii dissimilar types of flowers as well as places them nether her pillow on midsummer day, she'll dream of the human being she's going to marry! Well worth a shot, don't you lot think? It mightiness merely hold out that tall, blonde Swede sitting reverse you lot at the midsummer table!

Glad Misommar allihoppa! Skål!

Niki

Due to the Swedish vacation I'll hold out dorsum on Monday, I promise you lot convey a swell weekend!