Swedes get pumped about the Spring. You can’t blame them – Sweden is cold and a bit dreary for most of the winter. Come spring, people need to blow off a little winter depression with a fresh helping of booze. Lots and lots of booze. The Valborgsmassoafton festival takes place every 30th of April. [...]
Northern Swedes and Americans celebrate Easter in very different ways. They celebrate for an entire week. We generally gather on Sunday. They dress as witches. We dress (unfortunate) men as rabbits. They decorate eggs, then eat them. We decorate eggs, hide them then set children loose to find them. Either way you look at [...]
Palates are refined in youth. If you grew up eating or drinking something, chances are you’ll tie it to your childhood and not see it for what it really is. I’ll use the Swedish Easter drink, Paskmust, as an example. I find it repulsive. It smells like alcohol but it’s a children’s drink. It contains [...]
Easter is the time of year when witches mount brooms to fly to Blåkulla: an offshore island where they cavort with the Devil for the better part of a week. To make things worse, the witches have a spell that makes them look like they‘re still at home. All this is according to ancient Swedish [...]
You know the saying, “to fly by the seat of your pants?” Well, that's been our philosophy for most of our adult lives – before and after meeting, falling in love and marrying. We're now taking that idea on an extended round-the-world trip. Follow us as we share the good, the bad and the downright nasty of life on the road.
