Comments on: Sweet November and a Long December

By: It’s Snowing Yet Again

It’s Snowing Yet Again — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:08:42 +0000

[...] to depressing November in Sweden where we lose nearly 6 minutes of daylight every day. Not to mention, it’s snowing again. [...]

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:54:16 +0000

@Jessica – It is bad but I think people tend to exaggerate. But surround yourself with lots of people and candles (good for you) and the winter will not be so bad.

@Lynn – Most defn! Those natural sunlamps are wonder I heard.

@Puntino – Yeah, the great part of December is that there’s Christmas, Hanukah, New Year’s and the month flies by. Even though it’s the darkest month, it’s my most favorite month!

@dark in Sweden – Ditto. Thought that there would be more lights on the Christmas trees and more streetlamp snowflake lights or snowmen. Boo.

By: dark in sweden

dark in sweden — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:46:26 +0000

Ugh!!! I hate this darkness. I expected more Christmas lights up in Stockholm because of the darkness, but guess not.

By: Puntino

Puntino — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:09:14 +0000

I follow several blogs managed by people who come from “sunny” places and all them, like you, are complaining about the long dark November. Fortunately, December is on the way which brings less hours of sun, albeit !! But in December, you know, falls Christmas time that seems to make things go faster and more “sweetly”.
In my country, Italy, November is really dismal month, indeed it starts up with a morose celebration: day of the dead…

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:13:04 +0000

Sapphire, yeah I guess so, but a SERIOUS sunlamp would be in order!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:59:39 +0000

is the swedish winter really bad? am i gonna go crazy here or do people exaggerate?

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:17:37 +0000

Andrew, stop hanging over! :P

Lynn, definitely but I guess it’s part of the adventure.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:18:57 +0000

And my partner cannot understand why someone like me, originally from Cape Town in sunny SA, is not super keen to move to Stockholm anytime soon. Come February in London I’m already depressed as hell & need a sun holiday booked! Brrrr…..

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:32:57 +0000

Why can’t Stockholm be closer to the equator… Say…. 40 degrees south closer? :)

And the kicker is, the “nice” days we had were on the weekend…. WHEN I WAS HUNG OVER AND SLEPT IN! I never win. :(