Feb
08
2012
A colleague decided we needed to have “semlor” for fika today, and who was I to argue with Swedish tradition? Semlor are basically whipped-cream sandwiches made with unsweetened cardamom-spiced buns that have been spread with almond paste and sprinkled with powdered sugar. They were originally eaten on Shrove Tuesday as a last splurge before the …
Jan
27
2012
‘Old Man Winter‘ has finally decided to make an appearance in southern Sweden, in terms of temperature at least. It’s been below freezing off and on for the better part of a week now, prompting street crews to lay down pretty patterns of salt overnight on what I presume are walkways that are known to …
Jan
24
2012
While it may surprise some readers of this blog, I actually do have a real job at a large, multinational company headquartered in Sweden. Because of the aforementioned “multinational”-ness, our official corporate language is English, something for which I am truly grateful as it has allowed me to be employed as a communications professional in …
Oct
19
2011
Based on my experience of Europeans, I’d say this is pretty accurate.
May
22
2011
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing pointed me to a fantastic essay at the Sustainable Cities Collective website on the way people’s perceptions of their city changes when they experience it on a bicycle. Given that I haven’t owned a car since I moved to Sweden in the summer of 2002 (and Dr. Darling has never owned …
May
01
2011
One of the things that’s always surprised and disappointed me about Sweden is the rather limited selection of really good ice cream in grocery stores. One would think that the “land of 9 different grades of cream” could make decent ice cream, and I have Swedish friends who swear it exists, but it’s not stocked …
Jan
19
2012
Do not mess with Sir Richard Attenborough
I was SO looking forward to watching the latest series of world-renown BBC nature documentaries, Frozen Planet. We were mesmerized by the original Planet Earth series, to the point that we could not pull ourselves away from the TV one winter Saturday when the Discovery Channel showed all 11 episodes back-to-back. We also enjoyed Blue Planet, …
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Tags: Anglophilia, BBC Documentaries, Swedish TV
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