Creatures in the swedish forests (part 2)
Here comes the other part about the Swedish Wildlife, enjoy:P .
The Wolf
The wolf lives in packs and in each pack consists mostly of ten to sixteen wolfs.They are predators and often hunts in pairs but it can hunt alone as well, this occurs mostly in the summer when the more easier animals comes to life from the winter sleep. During the winter the wolfs hunts in packs, in a bigger group than during the summer to kill bigger animals like an elk.
If you're in the swedish countryside near a forest you maybe is lucky to hear the wolfs howling in the middle of the night. It's an really uniqe sound and gives a feeling of being close to the nature and something in a spiritual way, that was the rumors say :P .
The wolf is also a kind of protected animal in Sweden because of such a low amount of them. And usually the wolf only is hunted by humans when the wolfs are hunting down farm animals like sheeps. Or when wolfs are threatening humans generaly or becomes a problem.
The Wolf
The wolf lives in packs and in each pack consists mostly of ten to sixteen wolfs.They are predators and often hunts in pairs but it can hunt alone as well, this occurs mostly in the summer when the more easier animals comes to life from the winter sleep. During the winter the wolfs hunts in packs, in a bigger group than during the summer to kill bigger animals like an elk.
If you're in the swedish countryside near a forest you maybe is lucky to hear the wolfs howling in the middle of the night. It's an really uniqe sound and gives a feeling of being close to the nature and something in a spiritual way, that was the rumors say :P .
The wolf is also a kind of protected animal in Sweden because of such a low amount of them. And usually the wolf only is hunted by humans when the wolfs are hunting down farm animals like sheeps. Or when wolfs are threatening humans generaly or becomes a problem.
Maffia in Sweden ? Or ? :S
As the headline says I thought I can tell you just a bit about the swedish-undeworld or maffia if you could call it that, not that sure if you compare to the Yauza and Triads you have in Japan but I can contribute with some text-rows about the criminality and it's influence in the swedish society.
Okay, the criminalty in sweden is overal pretty low or somethng in the middle, it's not extremely high anyway. But the criminal gangs in Sweden are in fact mc-clubs or at least the biggest ones; Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws and the Brotherhood Wolfpack. Theese mentioned gangs are the biggest ones in Sweden and if you hear of swedish crime-gangs you probaly hear about one or more from the mentioned above.
Hells Angels, HA
Hells Angels is the biggest and oldest MC-gang and has the highest amount of active criminal gangmembers.
The mc-gang is or "was" back in the 70s a crimesyndicate with incomings from prodtituion, narcotic drug dealing, blackmailing and financial crime.
The gang today is very organized, the gang has thier own rankingsystem and it runs very descrete and has incomes from legal business as well, as tattoo-shops (theese are among the best in Sweden) and recently it was reveald that Hells Angels club-members had been running a rehab centre for youths and thereby got an steady income, legaly.
The illegal business that this gang is surviving on is still crimes like blackmailing, robberies and similar crimes, but the risk of get caught has increased alot because of harder supervision by the police and other factors.
Other illegal business this gang are doing is that they "controll" clubs/places (nightclubs and pubs for example).
This is basicly blackmailing, the gang takes a fee from the club, restaurant or other places and they protect them against other gangs and from vandalising or other unpleasant things that could happpen to the place if they don't pays them.
This kind of business has it's stronghold in the bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg and it doesn't affect the civialans that are going the the club or the place, as long as the club-owner is friend with Hells Angels so the gang doesn't blows up the place with civilians or abuses people outside the club to make a statement to the owner to start pay them.
The Other gangs
The other criminal gangs of Sweden has thier incomes from crimes and activities similar to Hells Angels, I just brought up hells angels as an example.
You should know that the last activity mentioned, blackmailing club members are only the largest gangs who can run operations like that because it takes years of reputation and power.
And it's not in that way that every club in stockholm pays smoe criminal gang, it exists but it's not a very big society issue.
Gangs and Society
Theese criminal gangs isn't really a problem for the ordinary sweds or the civilans as long as you don't owes them money or abusing a club member or something else to fuck up the club. The problem beginns when the gangs are in war with eatch other and then a couple of people are dying in shootings because of the rivality between the gangs.
It also becomes a problem when the gang or club jumps unprovoked on a civilains and blackmails them, but it's not common anymore because of harder supervision from the swedish police. So as long as you'r enot causing or has anything to do with thoose mc-clubs you're are garanteed to 99% that you can live a life away from ciminality like this.
Okay, the criminalty in sweden is overal pretty low or somethng in the middle, it's not extremely high anyway. But the criminal gangs in Sweden are in fact mc-clubs or at least the biggest ones; Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws and the Brotherhood Wolfpack. Theese mentioned gangs are the biggest ones in Sweden and if you hear of swedish crime-gangs you probaly hear about one or more from the mentioned above.
Hells Angels, HA
Hells Angels is the biggest and oldest MC-gang and has the highest amount of active criminal gangmembers.
The mc-gang is or "was" back in the 70s a crimesyndicate with incomings from prodtituion, narcotic drug dealing, blackmailing and financial crime.
The gang today is very organized, the gang has thier own rankingsystem and it runs very descrete and has incomes from legal business as well, as tattoo-shops (theese are among the best in Sweden) and recently it was reveald that Hells Angels club-members had been running a rehab centre for youths and thereby got an steady income, legaly.
The illegal business that this gang is surviving on is still crimes like blackmailing, robberies and similar crimes, but the risk of get caught has increased alot because of harder supervision by the police and other factors.
Other illegal business this gang are doing is that they "controll" clubs/places (nightclubs and pubs for example).
This is basicly blackmailing, the gang takes a fee from the club, restaurant or other places and they protect them against other gangs and from vandalising or other unpleasant things that could happpen to the place if they don't pays them.
This kind of business has it's stronghold in the bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg and it doesn't affect the civialans that are going the the club or the place, as long as the club-owner is friend with Hells Angels so the gang doesn't blows up the place with civilians or abuses people outside the club to make a statement to the owner to start pay them.
The Other gangs
The other criminal gangs of Sweden has thier incomes from crimes and activities similar to Hells Angels, I just brought up hells angels as an example.
You should know that the last activity mentioned, blackmailing club members are only the largest gangs who can run operations like that because it takes years of reputation and power.
And it's not in that way that every club in stockholm pays smoe criminal gang, it exists but it's not a very big society issue.
Gangs and Society
Theese criminal gangs isn't really a problem for the ordinary sweds or the civilans as long as you don't owes them money or abusing a club member or something else to fuck up the club. The problem beginns when the gangs are in war with eatch other and then a couple of people are dying in shootings because of the rivality between the gangs.
It also becomes a problem when the gang or club jumps unprovoked on a civilains and blackmails them, but it's not common anymore because of harder supervision from the swedish police. So as long as you'r enot causing or has anything to do with thoose mc-clubs you're are garanteed to 99% that you can live a life away from ciminality like this.
Öland, caravan holiday - soo Swedish :P
I just had a brainstorm when I sat and wondered what I should blog about next that are typical swedish and what can't be more swedish than a Caravan holiday on Öland, the popular and according to me the best swedish vacation Island :P .
Packing a caravan full of stuff and going to a camping and live in the caravan and just enjoying what the summer has to offer, the sun, swimming in the ocean you got the point :P, is something that's very common in Sweden and it's not unusual to spot several full campings along the road if you is driving around in sweden.
Caravan-vacation it's like an old swedish tradition or just typical swedish I guess.
But it's not all swedish people that are spending thier vacation this way, my family for an example, I don't know why we're not vacationing that way but i think that none of us in the family are enjoying staying in a caravan during our vacation and living on a camping, we think it's tacky or more like gypsie-style I believe, it's hard to explain but that's the best comparement I can think of right now.
Anyway what I was going to tell you about is that Öland, the island that is located just below the swedish middle or something like it.
It's a very popular vacation destination for all swedish people, it's people who comes to the souther Sweden from Stockholm or above to spend thier vacation on Öland.
And why Öland of all the places? Öland is something else than the ordinary sweden, it has it has it's own Touch in a different way and it's a little bit extraodinary than the swedish mainland :P and with the perfect weather a summer there could be like a vacation outside Sweden.
The nature on Öland consists of flat-land and much bushes and grass, not that much deep forests that otherwise is common in Sweden.
Because of Ölands popularity it's a lot of things going on during the summer-time and the Island is flowing of parties, teenagares and other activities that could be fun to do :P, and yes alcohol is very common during the vacation-time and actually alot of teenagers are arrasted for being drunk and sadly several traffic accidents takes it's place on this vacation-Island too. Even disasters like murder that occured last midsummer on öland when a couple of drunk teenagers were drunk and lost the controll on a camping last year, I remeber it that well because I was working on a camping about one kilometer from the camping where that teen was murdered.
Alot of campings exists on Öland due to it's increased popularity.
And the camping that stands out most from the others is the five star camping Böda Sand and maybe the most famous one I guess as well and it's located obn the northest tip of Öland. The thing that the camping is most famous for is the not-so-common extrafine white sand that is there and the camping is very nice overall so it's a place I really recommen to visit if you have the time.
Finally some pictures of this popular summer Island :P
Spendning the vacation in a caravan on a camping is very swedish and common for many sweds :P
Here you got Böda Sand the camping I was talking about :P
What can I say? It's Öland :)
Nice or What?
Okay enjoy this picture and hopefully you got something out if this post:P Cya:P
Packing a caravan full of stuff and going to a camping and live in the caravan and just enjoying what the summer has to offer, the sun, swimming in the ocean you got the point :P, is something that's very common in Sweden and it's not unusual to spot several full campings along the road if you is driving around in sweden.
Caravan-vacation it's like an old swedish tradition or just typical swedish I guess.
But it's not all swedish people that are spending thier vacation this way, my family for an example, I don't know why we're not vacationing that way but i think that none of us in the family are enjoying staying in a caravan during our vacation and living on a camping, we think it's tacky or more like gypsie-style I believe, it's hard to explain but that's the best comparement I can think of right now.
Anyway what I was going to tell you about is that Öland, the island that is located just below the swedish middle or something like it.
It's a very popular vacation destination for all swedish people, it's people who comes to the souther Sweden from Stockholm or above to spend thier vacation on Öland.
And why Öland of all the places? Öland is something else than the ordinary sweden, it has it has it's own Touch in a different way and it's a little bit extraodinary than the swedish mainland :P and with the perfect weather a summer there could be like a vacation outside Sweden.
The nature on Öland consists of flat-land and much bushes and grass, not that much deep forests that otherwise is common in Sweden.
Because of Ölands popularity it's a lot of things going on during the summer-time and the Island is flowing of parties, teenagares and other activities that could be fun to do :P, and yes alcohol is very common during the vacation-time and actually alot of teenagers are arrasted for being drunk and sadly several traffic accidents takes it's place on this vacation-Island too. Even disasters like murder that occured last midsummer on öland when a couple of drunk teenagers were drunk and lost the controll on a camping last year, I remeber it that well because I was working on a camping about one kilometer from the camping where that teen was murdered.
Alot of campings exists on Öland due to it's increased popularity.
And the camping that stands out most from the others is the five star camping Böda Sand and maybe the most famous one I guess as well and it's located obn the northest tip of Öland. The thing that the camping is most famous for is the not-so-common extrafine white sand that is there and the camping is very nice overall so it's a place I really recommen to visit if you have the time.
Finally some pictures of this popular summer Island :P
Spendning the vacation in a caravan on a camping is very swedish and common for many sweds :P
Here you got Böda Sand the camping I was talking about :P
What can I say? It's Öland :)
Nice or What?
Okay enjoy this picture and hopefully you got something out if this post:P Cya:P
Especially swedish
When I was talking about the swedish nature and wildlife I think I forgot to mention something, a little detail that could be fun to know and it's a little difference from other countries as well and it's that,
in Sweden we have something we call right of public access or in swedish "allemansrätt".
It's a kind of law, I'm not sure it's written down in the swedish law books but it's anyway an applicable law in Sweden. This "law" or rule means that you can walk through forests and land without asking the owner for permission but you're only able to walk around, take a strawl in the forest and not disturb the owner or someone else in the area and neither destory or damage the forest or land in any way.
The law does not include camping either, to do that you have to ask for permission.
This little law or exception doesn't allow you enter someone's jardin either :P But you're allowed to take a tour in a forest without any permission from the owner, just be careful :P .
in Sweden we have something we call right of public access or in swedish "allemansrätt".
It's a kind of law, I'm not sure it's written down in the swedish law books but it's anyway an applicable law in Sweden. This "law" or rule means that you can walk through forests and land without asking the owner for permission but you're only able to walk around, take a strawl in the forest and not disturb the owner or someone else in the area and neither destory or damage the forest or land in any way.
The law does not include camping either, to do that you have to ask for permission.
This little law or exception doesn't allow you enter someone's jardin either :P But you're allowed to take a tour in a forest without any permission from the owner, just be careful :P .
The nature of Sweden
In Sweden the nature varies alot depending on where you are.
In the northtest parts the deep coniferious forests are dominating and the snowy mountains becomes more common and the snow lasts long and the climate is rough and the winter chiller lasts longer.
A funny thing is that in the summer the sun never goes down in the northests parts and it's basically light the whole night.
Picture of Lappland in the norther parts.
In the southen parts of Sweden the land becomes more flat and opened.
In Skåne, the southest area of Sweden, the landscapes are wide open and mostly covered with fields and completely flat, thier are no mountains or hills at all. The climate is mostly pretty mild and the snow often goes away as quick it falls down :) Okay, that was a bit exaggeriated but I just wanted to make a point that usually it doesn't comes that much snow and the climate is milder than in the norths. The forests here are mostly decidioius forests and as I said before, the woods becomes more rare the souther you gets :P
the southest parts of Sweden (skåne)
In Swedens middle-parts the climate and nature is a real mix of the southest and the northest climate and nature.
The nature varies in changing from flat to hilly and the forests are a mix of decidious and coniferious forests.
The wheather variers as well, some years it comes real amount of snow and some years it's like nothing and plus-degrees in december, so it variers alot.
I can report from the litte lower than the middle area of sweden because I live there (approximately) and the last two years the snow has come in huge amounts and it feels like we are living in Lappland or anywhere else in the northest areas of Sweden. And the climate has been anything than mild :P so this year-snow has not begun to melt until for one and one-half month ago :P
In the northtest parts the deep coniferious forests are dominating and the snowy mountains becomes more common and the snow lasts long and the climate is rough and the winter chiller lasts longer.
A funny thing is that in the summer the sun never goes down in the northests parts and it's basically light the whole night.
Picture of Lappland in the norther parts.
In the southen parts of Sweden the land becomes more flat and opened.
In Skåne, the southest area of Sweden, the landscapes are wide open and mostly covered with fields and completely flat, thier are no mountains or hills at all. The climate is mostly pretty mild and the snow often goes away as quick it falls down :) Okay, that was a bit exaggeriated but I just wanted to make a point that usually it doesn't comes that much snow and the climate is milder than in the norths. The forests here are mostly decidioius forests and as I said before, the woods becomes more rare the souther you gets :P
the southest parts of Sweden (skåne)
In Swedens middle-parts the climate and nature is a real mix of the southest and the northest climate and nature.
The nature varies in changing from flat to hilly and the forests are a mix of decidious and coniferious forests.
The wheather variers as well, some years it comes real amount of snow and some years it's like nothing and plus-degrees in december, so it variers alot.
I can report from the litte lower than the middle area of sweden because I live there (approximately) and the last two years the snow has come in huge amounts and it feels like we are living in Lappland or anywhere else in the northest areas of Sweden. And the climate has been anything than mild :P so this year-snow has not begun to melt until for one and one-half month ago :P
Creatures in the swedish forests (part 1)
I have listed a couple of animals (with description) that are very attractive to tourists who are visiting sweden every year in hope of seeing theese animals.
The Brown Bear
The brown bear is most common in the nortest parts of sweden and during the winter it hiberates in a den, made of moss and twigs or something similar to that. This bear can weigh up to 350 kilos! that's a lot of bear.
And it also get's it's cubs during the winter.
Before the freezing-cold winter is comming to sweden the bear gains a lot of weigh and bodyfat, by eating different kind of berries and some other stuff it can find in the swedish forrests :P .
The bear is not hunted in Sweden until it becomes a threat to civilian people or damaging farm-animals like sheeps or whatever you can think of. But it hasn't always been like this, the bear hunting was more common back in the old swedish days but now it's a protected animal to preserve it and not eradicate it.
A very important thing to know it's that the bear can attack and even kill a human if it feels threatened by the man.
The wolverine
The wolverine is rare in Sweden and therefore it's also a protected animal and I even think this animal is one of the most threathened animals in Sweden.
It's a predator and is eating birds or mammals in the summer and during the winter it also can eat reindeers that are killed by itself or after another animal has killed.
It's a really shy animal so it's hard to get a good look at it.
The wolverine is not that big, it can weigh up to 30 Kilos.
The Elk (Moose)
The elk is higly connected to Sweden for tourists and it's alot of people every year who travels to Sweden and goes on Elk-safari, just to see this creatures :P Especially germans are really liking theese animals, don't ask me why I guess they think they're pretty awsome because there is no elks in Germany ? Back to the topic, The elk lives mainly in the whole country, maybe they are more rare in the most southern parts of sweden but in the nature around my hometown Kalmar the elks are really common and are causing hundreds of traffic-accidents every year as well (just so you know) .
The elks are pretty big and can weigh up to 700 kilos so think bigger than a big horse or something like it :P Despite it's size it's an shy animal and they don't attack people, normaly, it has happened sometime I think but it's not often you hear about something like that.
If you ever will drive a car in sweden on highways and simple roads and spots a sign like this one above you may pay an extra attention on the road because this sign means that the risk for that an elk is running across the road is bigger than normal, so heads up :P
A little funny thing about theese signs is that the Germans used to take them down from the roads and take them home. But that was back in the days and I would be very surprised if I saw someone do that :P
Anyway that was al from me no at this moment :P
Cya :P
The Brown Bear
The brown bear is most common in the nortest parts of sweden and during the winter it hiberates in a den, made of moss and twigs or something similar to that. This bear can weigh up to 350 kilos! that's a lot of bear.
And it also get's it's cubs during the winter.
Before the freezing-cold winter is comming to sweden the bear gains a lot of weigh and bodyfat, by eating different kind of berries and some other stuff it can find in the swedish forrests :P .
The bear is not hunted in Sweden until it becomes a threat to civilian people or damaging farm-animals like sheeps or whatever you can think of. But it hasn't always been like this, the bear hunting was more common back in the old swedish days but now it's a protected animal to preserve it and not eradicate it.
A very important thing to know it's that the bear can attack and even kill a human if it feels threatened by the man.
The wolverine
The wolverine is rare in Sweden and therefore it's also a protected animal and I even think this animal is one of the most threathened animals in Sweden.
It's a predator and is eating birds or mammals in the summer and during the winter it also can eat reindeers that are killed by itself or after another animal has killed.
It's a really shy animal so it's hard to get a good look at it.
The wolverine is not that big, it can weigh up to 30 Kilos.
The Elk (Moose)
The elk is higly connected to Sweden for tourists and it's alot of people every year who travels to Sweden and goes on Elk-safari, just to see this creatures :P Especially germans are really liking theese animals, don't ask me why I guess they think they're pretty awsome because there is no elks in Germany ? Back to the topic, The elk lives mainly in the whole country, maybe they are more rare in the most southern parts of sweden but in the nature around my hometown Kalmar the elks are really common and are causing hundreds of traffic-accidents every year as well (just so you know) .
The elks are pretty big and can weigh up to 700 kilos so think bigger than a big horse or something like it :P Despite it's size it's an shy animal and they don't attack people, normaly, it has happened sometime I think but it's not often you hear about something like that.
If you ever will drive a car in sweden on highways and simple roads and spots a sign like this one above you may pay an extra attention on the road because this sign means that the risk for that an elk is running across the road is bigger than normal, so heads up :P
A little funny thing about theese signs is that the Germans used to take them down from the roads and take them home. But that was back in the days and I would be very surprised if I saw someone do that :P
Anyway that was al from me no at this moment :P
Cya :P
more swedish music :P
Hi again I believe I forgott to tell you about one of my favourite swedish rock/punk band, Backyard Babies. :P
A video of backyard babies :P A Really good band, By the way, I don't think theese boys is so well-known, famous maybe around Europe but not world-wide.
Backyard Babies - People like, people like us
A video of backyard babies :P A Really good band, By the way, I don't think theese boys is so well-known, famous maybe around Europe but not world-wide.
Backyard Babies - People like, people like us
More about swedish "drugs"
Just remebered how I forgot to tell you about pure swedish "drugs" or tobacco products actually and it's quite unic for Sweden and I don't think it's legal in so many other countries either. Of course I'm talkikng about Snus, swedish Snus is a tobacco product like cigarettes but it's like hard "mud" that you molds to a tiny box or dice or something like that :P and you put it under your lip and have it there for a while :P And like cigarettes snus contains nicote and therefore you can be addicted to it. So it's nothing I recommend you guys trying if you're visiting sweden, I brought it up just for it's swedish :) But if you're already addicted to cigarrettes you can try it because when you're used to the nicotine you're body respons less harmful, I think :P
I don't really know why it's not legal in other countries because it's not more dangerous than cigarrettes, in that case I really think Snus is better if you have to have nicotine, because you're only damaging yourself and don't blow out dangerous smoke to other none nicotine-addicted persons. But that's my opinion.
Last but not least a picture of pure swedish snus.
I don't really know why it's not legal in other countries because it's not more dangerous than cigarrettes, in that case I really think Snus is better if you have to have nicotine, because you're only damaging yourself and don't blow out dangerous smoke to other none nicotine-addicted persons. But that's my opinion.
Last but not least a picture of pure swedish snus.
the swedish truth
Hi There :P In this post I've thought to smash all of you're preconceivied picture of sweden, maybe not "smash" but I'll at least give it a try to explain what's true and what's wrong about Sweden :P So you can get a correct picture of sweden to your project :P
All swedes are blond?
This is a true myth and it's really not true :P The haircolors in sweden varies and we have brunettes and black hairy people in sweden, it's a real mixture :) .
All swedes are wealthy
I don't know why everyone is believing that but it's not correct. Sweden is a reasonable economy and quite small amount of poor people if you look at the big picture, but that doesn't mean that everybody in sweden is rich. It's not that unusual that in some school class it's kids with old and inherited clothes from thier older siblings because thier parents can't make enough money. Then the povery and unemployment is biggest in the immigrant areas and theese areas also has more criminality as well. Examples for such an are is Rosengård, in Malmö and Rinkeby, Stockholm and in theese areas most of the people hasn't it too luxury at home or a good economy.
This is a video from the are Rosengård in Malmö and it's a huge immigrant area in sweden.
All swedes are goodlooking
I have to really concentrate me to not laugh about this, I mean this is so not true and I don't know how anyone can think that everyone in a country of nine million people (okay it's not that much but anyway) are beatiful, wake up people, it's not like that ;)
More about Sweden and immigrants
A thing that you could notice if you watched the video above, is that it's growing muslim or other religion influence in Sweden and these days it has become sort of a problem here and the immigrantion is a hot topic right know.
It's swedes that are rasists and new-nazists that want immigrants out of sweden to preserve sweden swedish and it's people in sweden that are friendly to immigrants and just want immigrants who are causes damage to the society, like criminal actions (and like the video), riot and violence. So it's people of both sides and the question what to do to prevent that areas like Rosengård not turns liket he one in the video is still unanswered.
The last year when it was selection (time for swedes to vote for which party who's going to rule sweden) to which party is going to "rule" sweden it was a party named Sverigedemokraterna and they had only one thing they wanted to contribute with, they wanted to stop the immigration and more or less get rid of other immigrants from sweden. But they didn't won but they got one mandate in the parlimentary and it takes alot of votes from the swedish people to get that, but today they don't rule anything or makes decisions about sweden because they always get voted down by the bigger parties and they don't support thiers suggestions, luckily that. But you can uderstand that the immigration is a very hot and sensetive question that always nowdays leads to lively debattes in sweden and a big society issue.
That was all I had to say in this post cya:P
All swedes are blond?
This is a true myth and it's really not true :P The haircolors in sweden varies and we have brunettes and black hairy people in sweden, it's a real mixture :) .
All swedes are wealthy
I don't know why everyone is believing that but it's not correct. Sweden is a reasonable economy and quite small amount of poor people if you look at the big picture, but that doesn't mean that everybody in sweden is rich. It's not that unusual that in some school class it's kids with old and inherited clothes from thier older siblings because thier parents can't make enough money. Then the povery and unemployment is biggest in the immigrant areas and theese areas also has more criminality as well. Examples for such an are is Rosengård, in Malmö and Rinkeby, Stockholm and in theese areas most of the people hasn't it too luxury at home or a good economy.
This is a video from the are Rosengård in Malmö and it's a huge immigrant area in sweden.
All swedes are goodlooking
I have to really concentrate me to not laugh about this, I mean this is so not true and I don't know how anyone can think that everyone in a country of nine million people (okay it's not that much but anyway) are beatiful, wake up people, it's not like that ;)
More about Sweden and immigrants
A thing that you could notice if you watched the video above, is that it's growing muslim or other religion influence in Sweden and these days it has become sort of a problem here and the immigrantion is a hot topic right know.
It's swedes that are rasists and new-nazists that want immigrants out of sweden to preserve sweden swedish and it's people in sweden that are friendly to immigrants and just want immigrants who are causes damage to the society, like criminal actions (and like the video), riot and violence. So it's people of both sides and the question what to do to prevent that areas like Rosengård not turns liket he one in the video is still unanswered.
The last year when it was selection (time for swedes to vote for which party who's going to rule sweden) to which party is going to "rule" sweden it was a party named Sverigedemokraterna and they had only one thing they wanted to contribute with, they wanted to stop the immigration and more or less get rid of other immigrants from sweden. But they didn't won but they got one mandate in the parlimentary and it takes alot of votes from the swedish people to get that, but today they don't rule anything or makes decisions about sweden because they always get voted down by the bigger parties and they don't support thiers suggestions, luckily that. But you can uderstand that the immigration is a very hot and sensetive question that always nowdays leads to lively debattes in sweden and a big society issue.
That was all I had to say in this post cya:P
some Swedish Rock ;)
Hi, here comes some music that I really like and first of all I'm into rock so you will hear and read about swedish rock in this post.
Let's getting started with a really popular band and their from sweden of course :) no fence but theese guys has been playing for a long time and their are famous around Europe to so thier just not popular in Sweden and the band is In Flames and thier music is more metal than only rock and according to me because they has thier own special sound and a specied nish or style to all the songs they make, no song is similar to another band and that's why I like them I guess and the songs are really amazing btw ;P I can post thier most popular songs :P
Antother swedish rockband I strongly recommend you all is Bullet for my Valentine they are quite famous in the rest of Europe and even the USA and Austrailia. This band plays mostly metal but they also has some really good calm-down tracks too so I'll post them and the band has it's own style, but they don't really have thier own rock-sound (like in flames has), I think thier sounds is a bit similar to swedish rock generally but I started to listen to them when I was ten years old or something, so that's why I'm listenting to them and sometimes the has good and meaningful lyrics, but this is not in all songs unfortunately.
Here are some songs from Bullet for my valentine
This is a song has become one of my favorites and I really like it because it's starts with a low tempo and then accelerates into real rock somewhere in the middle :P
Dead by April is a relatively new band from Gothenburg and had it's real breakthrough in 2009 and it wasn't until then they released thier first album, but it became a huge success and in a few months everybody knew who they were. The reason why they had such a breakthrough is becauase thier song named Losing You was an intro to a popular tv-show in sweden and therefore became swedish celebreties in such short time :P But this band is only famous in sweden and not the rest of the world so just swedish rock :P .
Thier breakthrough-song a must hear!
That was the most of it I believe but I can finish everything with telling you that Rock is not the most popular music in sweden anymore it's more R'NB and Pop from the USA or some other pop-soul-music that the most swedish people are listenening to but to me all these pop songs from USA sounds the same, okay Rihanna and lady gaga is a few standing out and gives some extra but the rest sounds the same to me and the lyrics don't say much more than shala-tralla-pling-plong it's only a clatshi tune, naja.
This is Swedens contribution to the annual Euro Vision Song Contest - It's a big contest there mostly every european country has it's own contribution competing against each other.
Peronaly I think this is a ridiculous song and it's just not good enough :P
Ohhh a almost forgot :P I only have to give you a last recommendation about rock, but this isn't a swedish band it's a finnish band called HIM but they are know over europe, USA and in many other countries it's an old Rockband and thier music is really special, the call thier musicstyle Love Metal and it's a very unique style of music and thier lyrics is reallty good but deep and meaningful too :P So recommending it :P
and just one more :P
Let's getting started with a really popular band and their from sweden of course :) no fence but theese guys has been playing for a long time and their are famous around Europe to so thier just not popular in Sweden and the band is In Flames and thier music is more metal than only rock and according to me because they has thier own special sound and a specied nish or style to all the songs they make, no song is similar to another band and that's why I like them I guess and the songs are really amazing btw ;P I can post thier most popular songs :P
Antother swedish rockband I strongly recommend you all is Bullet for my Valentine they are quite famous in the rest of Europe and even the USA and Austrailia. This band plays mostly metal but they also has some really good calm-down tracks too so I'll post them and the band has it's own style, but they don't really have thier own rock-sound (like in flames has), I think thier sounds is a bit similar to swedish rock generally but I started to listen to them when I was ten years old or something, so that's why I'm listenting to them and sometimes the has good and meaningful lyrics, but this is not in all songs unfortunately.
Here are some songs from Bullet for my valentine
This is a song has become one of my favorites and I really like it because it's starts with a low tempo and then accelerates into real rock somewhere in the middle :P
Dead by April is a relatively new band from Gothenburg and had it's real breakthrough in 2009 and it wasn't until then they released thier first album, but it became a huge success and in a few months everybody knew who they were. The reason why they had such a breakthrough is becauase thier song named Losing You was an intro to a popular tv-show in sweden and therefore became swedish celebreties in such short time :P But this band is only famous in sweden and not the rest of the world so just swedish rock :P .
Thier breakthrough-song a must hear!
That was the most of it I believe but I can finish everything with telling you that Rock is not the most popular music in sweden anymore it's more R'NB and Pop from the USA or some other pop-soul-music that the most swedish people are listenening to but to me all these pop songs from USA sounds the same, okay Rihanna and lady gaga is a few standing out and gives some extra but the rest sounds the same to me and the lyrics don't say much more than shala-tralla-pling-plong it's only a clatshi tune, naja.
This is Swedens contribution to the annual Euro Vision Song Contest - It's a big contest there mostly every european country has it's own contribution competing against each other.
Peronaly I think this is a ridiculous song and it's just not good enough :P
Ohhh a almost forgot :P I only have to give you a last recommendation about rock, but this isn't a swedish band it's a finnish band called HIM but they are know over europe, USA and in many other countries it's an old Rockband and thier music is really special, the call thier musicstyle Love Metal and it's a very unique style of music and thier lyrics is reallty good but deep and meaningful too :P So recommending it :P
and just one more :P
sports among swedes
Heey :p Just want to tell you about the most popular sports in sweden and maybee I can write about some other sports you can try out here too.
Okay starts with the most popular sport then :P. It's football, Soccer whatever you call it and it's no doubt there. It's the biggest and most popular of all sports in Sweden, mostly every cities, villages and smaller towns has a footballfield and a footballclub so it's can be played everywere in sweden, otherwise it feels like that at least :). Other popular sports over here is Ice-hockey, basket-ball, floorball, skiing and handball, these sports are the second most popular and I should say that it's the ball games that is dominating in Sweden, it really is. But we have some Asian influence (can I call it that :) ?) it has become increasingly common whith combat sports like, karate, ju-jitsu, Taekwondo, Kick-boxing and MMA, I don't know if the last one if from Asia anyway the post continues :P.
I rather doing combatsports and not a really big fan of football, but I've played it for a couple of years in my earlier years but lost the interest in Socker so I tried Ju-jitsu instead and found that really intresting and since then I have tried a few more, Kickboxing and MMA, more specifically :P
A really popular activity for swedes doing on their spare-time and christmas holidays is skiing :P. I goes snowboarding myself mostly every year to Austria with my one-year older cousins and it's really nice and fun to just go snowboarding the whole day in thoose high mountains and in the night go to a club and just have fun all night, it's really enjoying :P .
So some finishing words to this Post, Best regards to all of you and byee for now :P
Okay starts with the most popular sport then :P. It's football, Soccer whatever you call it and it's no doubt there. It's the biggest and most popular of all sports in Sweden, mostly every cities, villages and smaller towns has a footballfield and a footballclub so it's can be played everywere in sweden, otherwise it feels like that at least :). Other popular sports over here is Ice-hockey, basket-ball, floorball, skiing and handball, these sports are the second most popular and I should say that it's the ball games that is dominating in Sweden, it really is. But we have some Asian influence (can I call it that :) ?) it has become increasingly common whith combat sports like, karate, ju-jitsu, Taekwondo, Kick-boxing and MMA, I don't know if the last one if from Asia anyway the post continues :P.
I rather doing combatsports and not a really big fan of football, but I've played it for a couple of years in my earlier years but lost the interest in Socker so I tried Ju-jitsu instead and found that really intresting and since then I have tried a few more, Kickboxing and MMA, more specifically :P
A really popular activity for swedes doing on their spare-time and christmas holidays is skiing :P. I goes snowboarding myself mostly every year to Austria with my one-year older cousins and it's really nice and fun to just go snowboarding the whole day in thoose high mountains and in the night go to a club and just have fun all night, it's really enjoying :P .
So some finishing words to this Post, Best regards to all of you and byee for now :P
youths and druugs
Hello again :P I've heard you guys wanted to know some more about how common drugs and alcohol is in the swedish society nowdays and what kind of rules and laws we have against it.
I must say that alcohol is the biggest and most used intoxicant by youths theese days and I don't really don't know why, it's easier to get alcohol than drugs but drugs is not that hard to get, maybe it's the price is too high?The youths these days has the knowledge of which harm the drugs does to you? I'm not sure but I think also that drugs is relative new to sweden is not a part of the culture like in mexico or somewhere else where the drugs are popular and that can contribute with it's low level of usage. Here in sweden the traditional intoxicant is alcohol and I maybe mostly of the swedes are satisfied with that? I can't really find a better way or another way to explain why there arn't so much swedes out there doing drugs.
Sure it's maybe someone in every school calss that has tried some light drug like hash or Marijana or something else similar to that no surprise about that but I don't think that it's so many youths that gets stuck in an addiction because of these light drugs.
And the penalty for using or holding Maja and hash can be a couple of months in prison, that depends of course how much drugs you have and so on. If you're under fiftheen (fiftheen is the required age for being prosecuted in the trail) and get arrested for possesing drugs they send you to juvenile or if you just tested a small amount one time it could end up in several meetings with the social services and you're parents has to take part too. This is to make sure this don't happens again.
If you get caught by the police with alcohol and/or completely wasted they will ake you're alcohol and pour it out just like that. If you're under fiftheen you will be taken to the hospital or directly home(it depends on your condition) and then warn your parents and the police could also report it to the social services and in that case you have to go with your parents to regularly meetings with the social services. If the case is that you're above fiftheen you can be sent to the police station (this is normaly if your behaviour is bad and agressive) and reported to the police for agressivnes and drunkenness in public or something like that I believe. Otherwise if you're only to wasted to stand up you gets to spend the night in a detox cell.
The age of buying alcohol in liqour stores is twenty years old, but you're allowed to drink at bars, clubs when you're eighteen years old.
The swedish police.
I must say that alcohol is the biggest and most used intoxicant by youths theese days and I don't really don't know why, it's easier to get alcohol than drugs but drugs is not that hard to get, maybe it's the price is too high?The youths these days has the knowledge of which harm the drugs does to you? I'm not sure but I think also that drugs is relative new to sweden is not a part of the culture like in mexico or somewhere else where the drugs are popular and that can contribute with it's low level of usage. Here in sweden the traditional intoxicant is alcohol and I maybe mostly of the swedes are satisfied with that? I can't really find a better way or another way to explain why there arn't so much swedes out there doing drugs.
Sure it's maybe someone in every school calss that has tried some light drug like hash or Marijana or something else similar to that no surprise about that but I don't think that it's so many youths that gets stuck in an addiction because of these light drugs.
And the penalty for using or holding Maja and hash can be a couple of months in prison, that depends of course how much drugs you have and so on. If you're under fiftheen (fiftheen is the required age for being prosecuted in the trail) and get arrested for possesing drugs they send you to juvenile or if you just tested a small amount one time it could end up in several meetings with the social services and you're parents has to take part too. This is to make sure this don't happens again.
If you get caught by the police with alcohol and/or completely wasted they will ake you're alcohol and pour it out just like that. If you're under fiftheen you will be taken to the hospital or directly home(it depends on your condition) and then warn your parents and the police could also report it to the social services and in that case you have to go with your parents to regularly meetings with the social services. If the case is that you're above fiftheen you can be sent to the police station (this is normaly if your behaviour is bad and agressive) and reported to the police for agressivnes and drunkenness in public or something like that I believe. Otherwise if you're only to wasted to stand up you gets to spend the night in a detox cell.
The age of buying alcohol in liqour stores is twenty years old, but you're allowed to drink at bars, clubs when you're eighteen years old.
The swedish police.
Swedish Traditions and feasts (Part 2)
Hi, I'm back again and posting the rest of our Swedish traditions and feasts :P Enjoy reading.
Christmas
December is the month of the christmans :P It's the month when christmas decorations adorn and light up the streets, shopwindows and malls.
Here we have our christmas eve in the twentyfourth of december.
Christmas is celebrated and it has become a tradition in Sweden because of the christanity, celebrating that Jesus is born. So the church has a bit more activities these days, but as I wrote before, there's not so many people in sweden that are true and believing christs anymore.
The Cristamas Eve
A swedish christmas eve is the time for handing out presents that been under the christmas tree (yes swedes has a decorated tree inside the house :) ) during the night to our family members (christmas here is celebrated with our family and close relatives) and kids believes that the santa claus who came through the chimney has dropped of presents, it's a classical tale that every parent tells thier kids.
Mostly all swedes are watching Donald Duck, the special christmas eve-programe on the tv, this is strongly a tradition.
We are eating a bit extraordinary during the cristmas eve, we have something that is called "Julbord" , christmas smorgordsbord, believe it's really swedish, it's an very old swedish tradition anyway :P and on this christmas smorgosbord it's plenty of dishes and different type of food, it's basically a real mix, we have meatballs, swedish dumplings, potato gratin and a special christmas ham served with mustard :P .
Christmas Tree The Swedish Julbord :P Stockhols harbour at night during christmas :P
Okay now we are leaving christmas and I thouht I could mention how we Swedes are celebrating The New Year and the New Years Eve :P
New Years Eve!
This feast can be discribed were short - Party! This night, the 31 of december (the last day of december) mostly everone is partying and it's common that families invites friends to eat a good dinner/supper and then drink some champagne (or other alcohol) and fire off fireworks, firecrackers :P at midnight.
To young people New years eve are connected with party and alcohol, this is not unusual to se drunken fiftheen years old people out in parks or streets drunk, so the swedish police often has alot to do to arrest all these underage-drunken people. According to the swedish law it's only legal to consume alcohol if you're eighteen and above, but family members and local dealers buys from the liquid store and sells it to teenagers on the street, that's a growing problem in sweden.
The Cinnamon Bun's (Kanelbulle) Day:P
I think the cinnamon bun is typical swedish and here in sweden is has it's own day :P It's not realy a feast but it's marked out in our calendar so i post it because of that :P. This day is not realy celebrated, swedes maybe eats a cinnamon bun more this day than usual it's not more than that :P The cinnamon bun, is a wheat bun filled with some sort of thinn cinnamon-filling and topped with granulated sugar, Mums :P It's very usual here in sweden and you can have it in any cafe so just try it out :P
So I think that was the most of our feasts and our typical swedish traditions :P
Cyaa Later Byee :)
Christmas
December is the month of the christmans :P It's the month when christmas decorations adorn and light up the streets, shopwindows and malls.
Here we have our christmas eve in the twentyfourth of december.
Christmas is celebrated and it has become a tradition in Sweden because of the christanity, celebrating that Jesus is born. So the church has a bit more activities these days, but as I wrote before, there's not so many people in sweden that are true and believing christs anymore.
The Cristamas Eve
A swedish christmas eve is the time for handing out presents that been under the christmas tree (yes swedes has a decorated tree inside the house :) ) during the night to our family members (christmas here is celebrated with our family and close relatives) and kids believes that the santa claus who came through the chimney has dropped of presents, it's a classical tale that every parent tells thier kids.
Mostly all swedes are watching Donald Duck, the special christmas eve-programe on the tv, this is strongly a tradition.
We are eating a bit extraordinary during the cristmas eve, we have something that is called "Julbord" , christmas smorgordsbord, believe it's really swedish, it's an very old swedish tradition anyway :P and on this christmas smorgosbord it's plenty of dishes and different type of food, it's basically a real mix, we have meatballs, swedish dumplings, potato gratin and a special christmas ham served with mustard :P .
Christmas Tree The Swedish Julbord :P Stockhols harbour at night during christmas :P
Okay now we are leaving christmas and I thouht I could mention how we Swedes are celebrating The New Year and the New Years Eve :P
New Years Eve!
This feast can be discribed were short - Party! This night, the 31 of december (the last day of december) mostly everone is partying and it's common that families invites friends to eat a good dinner/supper and then drink some champagne (or other alcohol) and fire off fireworks, firecrackers :P at midnight.
To young people New years eve are connected with party and alcohol, this is not unusual to se drunken fiftheen years old people out in parks or streets drunk, so the swedish police often has alot to do to arrest all these underage-drunken people. According to the swedish law it's only legal to consume alcohol if you're eighteen and above, but family members and local dealers buys from the liquid store and sells it to teenagers on the street, that's a growing problem in sweden.
The Cinnamon Bun's (Kanelbulle) Day:P
I think the cinnamon bun is typical swedish and here in sweden is has it's own day :P It's not realy a feast but it's marked out in our calendar so i post it because of that :P. This day is not realy celebrated, swedes maybe eats a cinnamon bun more this day than usual it's not more than that :P The cinnamon bun, is a wheat bun filled with some sort of thinn cinnamon-filling and topped with granulated sugar, Mums :P It's very usual here in sweden and you can have it in any cafe so just try it out :P
So I think that was the most of our feasts and our typical swedish traditions :P
Cyaa Later Byee :)
Delicious Sweden ;)
Hi again ;) I thought you guys want to know something about the swedish food-culture, which small goods that are so much swedish it can be ? :P I've listed some goodies that are traditional swedish dishes and drinks and these are still popular nowdays, so if you're planning to visit Sweden and want to try some swedish potluck you can check out this list first :P .
1. Mashed potatoes with meatballs - Sweden are famous for it's meatballs and it's simply meat or minced meat rolled into balls, mashed potatoes are what it sounds like ;P This tastes really good with lingon-berry jam.
2. Lingon-Berry-Jam - Wow, It almost can't be more swedish now huh :P But Lingon is very famous in other countries and it's very much of it here in the swedish forests and it tastes good but something you only eat with something else, you don't eat it as it is :P
3. Swedish Crackers (crispbread) - A thinn and hard sandwich :P Think hard bread as a cracker made of ryo or wheat. Then some butter and ham or turkey on it that is a really good sandwich :P.
4. Dumplings - It's called "kroppkakor" in Sweden and it's a funny story beacuse it's not normaly eaten in the north or southest parts of Sweden, just the area between the southest and the middle parts of Sweden. I'm from Småland (a area in Sweden in the height of Öland) myself and it's located there and I've eaten dumplings and it's very common in småland actually :P. Now to what it really is, it's a ball made of raw grated potatoedough and inside of it it's spiced pork meat. You also have to have Lingonberry-jam and unwhipped cream to this dish :p .
5. Drinking alot of Milk - Milk is a very popular drink here in Sweden, you often has it to breakfast, lunch dinner and/or supper :P it's like a main or standard drink here, it's common anyway. Milk is also a very high-consumed drink in the swedish schools :P .
Making chocolate whith milk in it as Milkchocolate is also a typcical swedish thing too I believe, Marabou is a very well-know trademark that makes really good milkchocolate here so that's strongly recommended to try :) .
6. Västerbotten-cheese - A very appreciated cheese here in sweden by tourists and other no-swedish people :)
7. Crayfish - I mentioned this in the previous blog and it's really swedish so I just have to put it here :P It's a must-taste if visiting sweden :P It's like samll little lobsters naw :)
And now some pics of all this small goods :P Mmmhmm haha :P
1. Mashed potatoes with meatballs - Sweden are famous for it's meatballs and it's simply meat or minced meat rolled into balls, mashed potatoes are what it sounds like ;P This tastes really good with lingon-berry jam.
2. Lingon-Berry-Jam - Wow, It almost can't be more swedish now huh :P But Lingon is very famous in other countries and it's very much of it here in the swedish forests and it tastes good but something you only eat with something else, you don't eat it as it is :P
3. Swedish Crackers (crispbread) - A thinn and hard sandwich :P Think hard bread as a cracker made of ryo or wheat. Then some butter and ham or turkey on it that is a really good sandwich :P.
4. Dumplings - It's called "kroppkakor" in Sweden and it's a funny story beacuse it's not normaly eaten in the north or southest parts of Sweden, just the area between the southest and the middle parts of Sweden. I'm from Småland (a area in Sweden in the height of Öland) myself and it's located there and I've eaten dumplings and it's very common in småland actually :P. Now to what it really is, it's a ball made of raw grated potatoedough and inside of it it's spiced pork meat. You also have to have Lingonberry-jam and unwhipped cream to this dish :p .
5. Drinking alot of Milk - Milk is a very popular drink here in Sweden, you often has it to breakfast, lunch dinner and/or supper :P it's like a main or standard drink here, it's common anyway. Milk is also a very high-consumed drink in the swedish schools :P .
Making chocolate whith milk in it as Milkchocolate is also a typcical swedish thing too I believe, Marabou is a very well-know trademark that makes really good milkchocolate here so that's strongly recommended to try :) .
6. Västerbotten-cheese - A very appreciated cheese here in sweden by tourists and other no-swedish people :)
7. Crayfish - I mentioned this in the previous blog and it's really swedish so I just have to put it here :P It's a must-taste if visiting sweden :P It's like samll little lobsters naw :)
And now some pics of all this small goods :P Mmmhmm haha :P
Swedish Traditions and feasts (Part 1)
Hi now I thounght it would be fun to tell you about some of the Swedish traditions and feasts that are celebrated in Sweden :P
The Easter
Easter is celebrated here in Sweden in the month of April and the reason why is that we are celebrating and remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in Sweden the Christainity is the biggest and oldest religion.
But it's not common nowadays in Sweden to be a very religous and believing Christain, it becomes more rare year after year I believe. So persons that are not very religous just celebrating this with dressing up like little witches and goes around in the neighborhood and asks for candy and gives home-made eastern-cards, this is for the little children only like when they are around five years old. Alot of candy is also eaten during the easter.
Painting and eating more eggs than usual is something that becomes common during the easter as well.
Making homemade twigs is also very popular during the eastern to have on the table and and put outside the house.
But for a person that are religous and a true Christain they goes to church more ofthen as well to listen to the preaching priest during the eastern.
Homemade Twigs(called Påskris in Sweden) and an easter bunny with painted eggs.
Walpurgis Night (Day Eve)
This feast is celebrated the 30th of April and it's a tribute to the comming spring. Swedes celebrating this with doing a huge fire, a bonfire and then watch it burn and after the fire swedes usualy goes and partying with friends, the partying is very typical and usual amon swedish teenagers and sad but true it is quite often someone is harmed during this feast night of celebrating because of consuming too much alcohol.
A lighted bonfire.
The Midsummer
The tradition of celebrating midsummer takes place in the middle of the month of June and this is guaranteed celebrated everywhere in Sweden. It's a huge feast which celebrates with dancing around the midsummer-pole (shown in the picture) and then of course with a lot of partying with friends and relatives.
Young people and teenagers are often hanging around in parks and party with friends and other people, as on Day Eve this is a feast whith strong connection to party with alcohol to young people.
A midsommer pole, coverd with flowers
and leaves and dancing people.
Crayfish Party
This is not celebrated by every Swedish person, but it's very typcical for Sweden so I listed anyhow ;P .
It's in August you goes out on the lake with the boat ful of crayfish traps and places them out during daylight to then check on them by midnight and collect the crayfishes that walked in to the traps.
Then you cook the crayfishes alive with spices and the crabfishes shifts colour to red and dies. After that you eat them and it's popular in sweden to eat the cooked crayfishes with family and friends, we call it a "Kräftskiva" and it's very nice.
But if I relate to myself this is a family tradition and I've has as long as I can remember catched crayfishes and it's enjoying ;P .
But as I wrote before, celebrating this is very individual in sweden and is not celebrated by everybody.
Coocked Crayfishes.
That was all for now :P But keep reading my blog and have heads up for the continoued part (part 2) of swedish traditions ! Best Regards ;P / Martin ;P
The Easter
Easter is celebrated here in Sweden in the month of April and the reason why is that we are celebrating and remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in Sweden the Christainity is the biggest and oldest religion.
But it's not common nowadays in Sweden to be a very religous and believing Christain, it becomes more rare year after year I believe. So persons that are not very religous just celebrating this with dressing up like little witches and goes around in the neighborhood and asks for candy and gives home-made eastern-cards, this is for the little children only like when they are around five years old. Alot of candy is also eaten during the easter.
Painting and eating more eggs than usual is something that becomes common during the easter as well.
Making homemade twigs is also very popular during the eastern to have on the table and and put outside the house.
But for a person that are religous and a true Christain they goes to church more ofthen as well to listen to the preaching priest during the eastern.
Homemade Twigs(called Påskris in Sweden) and an easter bunny with painted eggs.
Walpurgis Night (Day Eve)
This feast is celebrated the 30th of April and it's a tribute to the comming spring. Swedes celebrating this with doing a huge fire, a bonfire and then watch it burn and after the fire swedes usualy goes and partying with friends, the partying is very typical and usual amon swedish teenagers and sad but true it is quite often someone is harmed during this feast night of celebrating because of consuming too much alcohol.
A lighted bonfire.
The Midsummer
The tradition of celebrating midsummer takes place in the middle of the month of June and this is guaranteed celebrated everywhere in Sweden. It's a huge feast which celebrates with dancing around the midsummer-pole (shown in the picture) and then of course with a lot of partying with friends and relatives.
Young people and teenagers are often hanging around in parks and party with friends and other people, as on Day Eve this is a feast whith strong connection to party with alcohol to young people.
A midsommer pole, coverd with flowers
and leaves and dancing people.
Crayfish Party
This is not celebrated by every Swedish person, but it's very typcical for Sweden so I listed anyhow ;P .
It's in August you goes out on the lake with the boat ful of crayfish traps and places them out during daylight to then check on them by midnight and collect the crayfishes that walked in to the traps.
Then you cook the crayfishes alive with spices and the crabfishes shifts colour to red and dies. After that you eat them and it's popular in sweden to eat the cooked crayfishes with family and friends, we call it a "Kräftskiva" and it's very nice.
But if I relate to myself this is a family tradition and I've has as long as I can remember catched crayfishes and it's enjoying ;P .
But as I wrote before, celebrating this is very individual in sweden and is not celebrated by everybody.
Coocked Crayfishes.
That was all for now :P But keep reading my blog and have heads up for the continoued part (part 2) of swedish traditions ! Best Regards ;P / Martin ;P
