Typical sweden

As you can see, Sweden is really about balance: your health is very very important, but enjoy life! Written by Lydia Hallie I’m Lydia, a 19-year-old Dutch girl living in Stockholm. I try to write many helpful posts to help younger people who recently moved to Sweden to get to know the country and how everything works here! Read more about gender equality in Sweden.

The Swedes are an outdoorsy bunch. Okay, maybe not all of them.

Parents in Sweden are entitled to stay at home for 4days with each chil with pay. The best-known recipe is the concept of ‘Mom’s meatballs,’ which are naturally intended to be homemade. The northern part of Sweden does not mix the meat with.

Discover unique things to do, places to eat, and sights to see in the best destinations around the world with Bring Me! There is some traditional food in Sweden you should definitely try, because it’s really delicious. Sweden is part of the vodka belt and historically distilled beverages, such as brännvin and snaps, have been a traditional daily complement to food. Consumption of wine in Sweden has increased during the last fifty years, partly at the expense of beer and stronger alcoholic beverages.

The most popular girls and boys names in Sweden.

Boys names further below. It is one of the first words you will learn when visiting Sweden , right after tack (thank you) and hej (hello). Fika is much more than having a coffee. It is a social phenomenon, a legitimate reason to set aside a moment for quality time. Sweden ’s more luxurious version of a prawn cocktail is made from peeled prawns mixed with mayonnaise, dill and lemon, topped with fish roe and served on crisp, sautéed bread.

Despite slightly retro connotations, the dish has retained popularity at dinner parties and on restaurant menus. One of two key minority languages is Saami, which is spoken in the Northern regions of Sweden and finally Finnish. There are also a number of Romanies in Sweden who speak in Romani. Tax is high in Sweden - true. True, but getting taxed in Sweden is not always a bad thing.

Swedes pay some of the highest taxes in the world but see the benefits and rewards come back to them, with cradle to the grave care. I’ve written about tax in Sweden before. I don't own any of the music in the video. Butter and margarine are the primary fat sources, although olive oil is becoming more popular. Swedish is not only the official language of Sweden.

We all know it: Swedes suck at customer service. Restaurants, shops, airline counters, you name it and they will give you no service.

In Sweden , people have no desire to give better service. It is not case of bad service, you just get no service. I understand now that for many Swedes , they consider too much customer service as intrusive.

A typical Christmas eve in Sweden. Daily news from Sweden written in English by native English-speaking journalists.