Lost in Stockholm » midsummer http://lostinstockholm.com Musings about Life in Socialist Sweden - Oh Yea, It's Awesome Mon, 21 May 2012 09:31:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to pick-up a drunk Swedish boy on Midsommar in 3 steps http://lostinstockholm.com/2009/06/27/how-to-pick-up-a-drunk-swedish-boy-on-midsommar-in-3-steps/ http://lostinstockholm.com/2009/06/27/how-to-pick-up-a-drunk-swedish-boy-on-midsommar-in-3-steps/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:31:15 +0000 Sapphire http://lostinstockholm.com/?p=382 Okay we’re teasing the Swedes here but my French friend and I just couldn’t help but tease the strangest holiday of the year. In case you didn’t know, Midsummer occurs on Summer solstice, the longest day of the year as well as the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere.

Midsommarafton, celebrated the day before the holiday itself (just like Julafton instead of Juldagen) consists of: drinking, eating, drinking, singing about small frogs, drinking schnapps, dancing around a pole, eating, drinking öl, and wearing flower wreaths. Swedes take their summer seriously and no one’s going to burst their first day of the summer party.

Midsummer is THE holiday for celebrating the light and the sunshine and the summer and the strawberries.

Forget the food and the aquavit, here’s how to flirt with a silly drunk Swedish Boy on Midsommarafton (midsummer day) in Sweden:
1. Say hello
2. Ask for his name
3. Ask for a french kiss

After getting that kiss, well it’s up to you to what happens next. But in an extreme situation, you can refer to the German IKEA television commercial of Swedish midsummer parties.


Germany’s IKEA TV ad that was banned.

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