You know you're in Sweden if...
- 1. You are willing to wait in a cue 50 people long just to enter the System Bologet (Swedish alcohol monopoly) leading up to a holiday where they could be closed for three days straight. It's a love/ hate relationship.
2. You celebrate Midsummer Eve (June 18th) by participating in potato sack hopping, singing Swedish songs while circling a maypole, and toasting to the summer solstice. You also eat steak and potatoes (believe it, it was my only option).
3. You receive a traditional Swedish massage from a Swedish woman at the Grand Hotel. The hotel's new spa, Raison d’Etre, was first class all the way.
The Nordic-inspired Raison d’Etre Spa celebrates the history and landscape of the Swedish archipelagos and expertly blends Swedish materials, design traditions and natural resources with a contemporary design. Stunning features include waterfalls and the use of slate in the swimming pool to create the sense of Swedish waters, heated lime stone floors and ash-clad walls (ash was the World Tree in Nordic Mythology) and beautiful mosaic walls with pictures of the Swedish archipelago, one which forms a backdrop to the cold water plunge pool.
4. You appreciate prepsters, polos, and pastels... Who doesn't? Swedes embrace the "warm" summer months by dressing in vibrant colors, seersucker, and pastels. Colored converses and leggings are also in style (Emily... you are in luck). I am told that people here dress in black during the winter (as if the weather doesn't make it dark enough already?).
5. You listen to ABBA, read the Steig Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tatoo books, and appreciate the adventures of Sweden's own Pippi Longstocking.
K Fitz
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