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Sweet November and a Long December
30, Nov 2009Finally, November in Sweden is over. Well almost; squeaking in this post a few minutes shy to December. Everywhere, November gets a bad name. People really hate the month because it’s cold and dark and cold and dark. Basically darkness envelopes society and turns humans into zombies craving for light. Especially in Sweden where the [...]
- In: stockholm
The Deal with Black Friday
27, Nov 2009If Thanksgiving in America wasn’t American enough, there is Black Friday: the holiest shopping day of the year. Not to be confused with the stock crash and somber days of Black Monday, basically when the financial world came to a halt, Black Friday marks the first day of the Christmas shopping. And why black? In [...]
Today is Thanksgiving, an American holiday. While we have been learning about Swedish Christmas holidays, let’s take a step back to turkey day. As a Swede or any other national for that matter, you may be wondering what is the history of Thanksgiving. Besides being the most awesome holiday of the year, where people can [...]
Swedish Christmas Holidaying
23, Nov 2009As a non Swede, I’m not quite sure what’s the deal with all the Christian holidays in a very pagan country. I just feel it is another reason to drink, eat, and drink again. And be really crazy. So I put together a little list of all the dates you should know during the Christmas [...]
After my massive bashing on Swedish fashion, I figured I would at least credit Sweden with awesome decoration for Christmas. I mean, I’ll still be hater on fashion here. It’s definitely Christmastime in Stockholm. The lights on Hornsgatan are lit up. Ahleans has the pretty Christmas lights. And even the Pressbyrans and 7-Elevens have that [...]
Swedish Fashion Tips: Kill the 80s Look
18, Nov 2009I give up on Swedish people being fashionable or Swedish fashion being trendy; whichever comes first. Tony, one of my friends asked me about Swedish fashion and how Swedes take on the catwalk. When I moved here last year, it was a horrifying experience already. The 80s, yes the 1980s, look was back in style. [...]
From Swedish Fish to Swedish Massages
14, Nov 2009When I write for Lost in Stockholm, I have tons of ideas in my head that eventually gets vaporized by my lack of effectively putting these thoughts into sentences. Just now, I was thinking ‘well, what the hell do I write about? Do people care about my daily bits or do they want to hear [...]
- In: culture|scandinavia
Living in Sweden: English Bookstores
12, Nov 2009This is part four of the Living in Sweden series. Here are the others for you to catch up on: Find a Job in Sweden Going for a Swedish Interview Find an Apartment in Sweden English books are expensive in Sweden. There’s also a limited collection of them at most bookstores so after a while [...]
- In: Living in Sweden
Living in Sweden: Finding an Apartment
5, Nov 2009This Post is part three in the Living in Sweden series. Need to catch up? Here are the others: Find a Job in Sweden Going for a Swedish Interview Finding an apartment in Sweden sucks. Finding an apartment in Stockholm, sucks beyond recognition. Because in Sweden they have a nonsensical system where people go crazy [...]
- In: Living in Sweden
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