Swedish Midsummer today!!

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Today is one of the most important days in Sweden - Midsummer!

Everybody gathers around the Midsummer pole and dance...
And eat, and drink!
The schnapps we take with the food is called a nubbe!
And then we drink some more!

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Glad midsommar!

I lived in Sweden for a couple of years and met my first partner there. Spent many a happy weekend jigging round the sting singing about frogs and rockets

I assume that’s you on the left?
 
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Glad midsommar!

I lived in Sweden for a couple of years and met my first partner there. Spent many a happy weekend jigging round the sting singing about frogs and rockets

I assume that’s you on the left?
So you know how things end up the evening…?
😉

And I wish I hade kit for Midsummer!
 
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Today is one of the most important days in Sweden - Midsummer!

Everybody gathers around the Midsummer pole and dance...
And eat, and drink!
The schnapps we take with the food is called a nubbe!
And then we drink some more!

SKÅL Forum Friends!

Which one of these is you Hans?
 
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Special events needs special Speedys!
Wippin out the 66HF!

Radar silence for some time now!
Nubbetime!!
Have a lovely Friday OF!


 
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Sweet. Enjoy the nubbe.
This movie came out not long after I was in the army for a while. I can't speak for the US, but a scenario like this is so unrealistic I can't imagine this sort of behaviour is real, unless it's the most undisciplined military I could imagine...

It was a good movie though.
 
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Midsummer? Isn't that the thing with running around naked??
 
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”Kippis” from Finland where Midsommer (juhannus) is also a big thing - with juhannussauna of course!
 
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”Kippis” from Finland where Midsommer (juhannus) is also a big thing - with juhannussauna of course!
My wife is Finnish and currently visiting her family. ( We live in Azerbijan) She was travelling from her sisters to her parents on the train. It was practically empty
She thinks most people are too hungover to go anywhere today 😁
 
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Hope you had a nice celebration Hans!! For all the rest of us in northern hemisphere I can’t believe that from tomorrow the days will be getting shorter!
 
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Hope you had a nice celebration Hans!! For all the rest of us in northern hemisphere I can’t believe that from tomorrow the days will be getting shorter!
We had a lovey celebration, and the weather was perfect!
I even managed to party until the sun rose the next day…..🙄

For those who do not know how 90% of the Swedes celebrate Midsummer:

Friends and family gather around noon-isch to eat herring with potatoes, bread and cheese, maybe some pie and other small stuff.
And we have to sing a lot of stupid songs, and every song ends with a nubbe!
After that, we have to dance around the midsummer pole.....😀

Then there is some time for R & R before we light up the grill!
And for those who have serious hosts, there is nattamat in the late hours (after midnight)!
Nattamat is often hotdogs, maybe some nice cheese and crackers or other finger food!
And the most stupid of us continues to down the nubbes…

Luckily we only do this once a year!