Archive for the ‘Fairs’ Category

Typical Swedish: Midsummer Strawberries

June 18th, 2012 at 7:37 pm » Comments (0)

Captured today in Stockholm with my iPhone 4S: A Swedish flag and strawberries. There isn’t anything more typical Swedish than that. Many Swedes has as an old tradition to buy strawberries for Midsummer Eve (which is on Friday). Even we. Here the strawberries has a price of 2 boxes for 50 SEK, that’s approximately $7.10 [...]

Julita Manor Swedish Museum of Agriculture

March 8th, 2012 at 4:56 pm » Comments (1)

A travel guide for an interesting Swedish Manor: Julita Gård, a large open air museum owned by the Nordiska Museet Foundation since 1944, at the shores of lake Öljaren in Sweden. We went there recently and found it well worth exploring. Julita existed already in the Viking era and was an medieval monastery that later [...]

Have a Happy Cuddly Day – Funfair Toys

November 4th, 2011 at 9:00 pm » Comments (2)

Have a happy day everyone – and happy weekend too. This was cuddly toys to win at the funfair Gröna Lund in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Have I told you before that Mr Lifecruiser is the very best at winning those kind of funfair toys for me? He always win something. I have to [...]