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 :)
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