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All Saints' Day Traditions
Swedes are celebrating 'Allhelgonahelgen' while Americans observe Halloween this weekend.Read more »
SWEDEN TODAY
Finding your Swedish roots.
Up close with Kathy Meade, Chicago, the American specialist in Swedish genealogy.Read more »
More Swedes travel abroad
...bookings for the summer are up 10% compared with 2011. Most popular right now? Turkey, with Spain a close second.Read more »
Bike baristas made in Sweden
People often dream of starting their own business. That is, until they start looking at the realities of finding a location and creating the resources to cover the cost of setting up shop, not to mention rent and salaries. But this Swedish company is peddling — and pedaling — Sweden's favorite drink, and showing the world how to do it.Read more »
Swedish News
Swim school starts in Sweden. Working out with man's best friend. Volvo goes electric. Sweeping streets clean. Home ownership may become more expensive.Read more »
'Kraftskivan' - An Ode to the Crayfish
Foreign tourists visiting in August say that crayfish parties are the closest a Swede gets to really letting loose. Nowhere is the crayfish so ardently worshipped as in Sweden and August and September offer opportunities to sample the delicacy in the U.S..Premium contentRead more »
Deep in the forest
The Holavedsleden trail between Tranås and Gränna runs in beautiful, hilly primeval forest. It’s the same idyllic landscape with bath-friendly lakes that inspired the great artist and illustrator John Bauer, the same forest in which thieves once lurked behind every other tree. Nordstjernan's Emil Sergel and Roger Borgelid instead encounter a magical tranquility in the deep forests of the Småland province.Premium contentRead more »
Allemansrätten - 'Everyman’s right'
There are certain things that are so Swedish, they could be symbols for the country. Not just traditional ornaments like a midsommarstång or a Lucia krona...Read more »
When did Swedes go blond?
What do Emil in Lönneberga, Anders Zorn’s “dalkullor,” and Kalle on the tube of Kalles Kaviar have in common? They’re all Swedish, blond, and blue-eyed.Read more »
Reed between the lines
When Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh set out to design a nature center with a difference, he didn't need to look much further than the shore of the lake it would stand on.Premium contentRead more »
Summer salad with salmon
Swedes love fish and what's not to love when it's combined with fresh, spicy ingredients?Read more »
In search of new frontiers
"With the help of the James Webb telescope, we will be able to see parts of the universe and other things we have not been able to see before. And what we have already been able to see, we will be able to see better."- astronomer Jens Melinder at the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University.Read more »
Bountiful garden with a touch of the exotic
A lavish arboretum in the northern Stockholm archipelago — a fertile Eden where magnificent flowers and beautiful deciduous trees bend and bow wherever you turn your gaze.Premium contentRead more »
The lucky Swede.
One of the classic stories of rags to riches to rags is the career of the Swedish immigrant Erik Olof Lindblom.Read more »
Swedes and citrus in the Sunshine State
They're a symbol of the Sunshine State. When you think oranges in the United States, you think Florida. You certainly don't think Sweden.Premium contentRead more »
We take the rough with the smooth, the ups with the downs ..
The first issues of our 149th year of consecutive publishing of Nordstjernan, have been published.Read more »
Walkabout Tour of Stockholm I
.. walk in the city of my youth: Leif Rosqvist goes for a walk through his old neighborhoods in the heart of Stockholm.Premium contentRead more »
Building on tradition
From the Royal Family and their summer mansion on the island of Öland, to the apartment-dwelling Swede who spends summer evenings on the outskirts of town at a quaint little "shed" in his own miniature garden - the act of getting away from conventional residential surroundings is a passion built into the Swedish national mentality.Premium contentRead more »
Record number of people shop food online
Not surprisingly the online food trade has doubled in Sweden during the pandemic.Read more »
Orienteering: It's all about finding your way
Orienteering is a sport that mirrors the Scandinavian spirit - a love of the outdoors, a rational approach to detail and a respect for healthy competition.Premium contentRead more »
Mountain Hiking in Sweden
- it’s for everybody not just for survivalists and hardcore connoisseurs.Read more »
Hiking trails in Sweden
Some are 4 or 5 hours away by car, others accessible from any of the major cities by night train or an hour and a half by air.Read more »
Food in the wintry north
Sami culinary traditions in Jokkmokk, kaffeost (coffee cheese) in Kangos and food served on ice in Jukkasjarvi.Premium contentRead more »
Learning (and teaching) Swedish
As we work on offering you more opportunities to practice your Swedish, we had the opportunity to hear from a teacher of Swedish in Sweden.Read more »
Moving to Sweden
What is it like to actually move to Sweden? A recently relocated Californian about his first year in Stockholm.Read more »
Wild skating through the archipelago
The Stockholm archipelago has the world's best conditions for Nordic tour skating. Local skating guide Joakim Malm does not hesitate for a second about this appraisal. The location and climate are factors that together produce ice that attracts visitors from all over the world.Premium contentRead more »