Welcome to my blog that for the time being will be written in English, due to my boyfriend’s visit here in the land of my ancestors. Sweden.

We have now spent exactly 3 weeks here in the little country of "lagom". 

(Which basically means: not too much and not too little. The perfect amount!)

Historically it's a word that goes all the way back to the time of the Vikings!

Let’s take it from the beginning:

So we arrived on Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden on June 20th. Thank God all the stops on the way went well for both me and Daniel. Around 11 pm my family came to pick us up and we drove to our summer house in Lerviken, Darlarna.

The day after, despite the jet leg, we celebrated the Swedish tradition midsummer!

First of all we went to a place called "Vikmans hyttan" where we did the traditional dance around the midsummer pole "midsommar stången", had a "fika" (which is a traditional Swedish snack with coffee or tea you may eat at any time of the day), and listened to a band play traditional Swedish summer tunes.

After that we went home and had dinner.

Fish is traditionally on the menu

... which made me so proud of Daniel who doesn't really like fish and who still chewed down a whole big piece of salmon cooked in the oven!

We also drank "nubbe" (a really strong liquor) and sang nubbe-songs.

Over all a very nice way to be greeted home.