Happy Midsummer!

This is Midsummer weekend... when the days are the longest (summer solstice) too Swedes brand the close of beingness outdoors. They don't telephone band Sweden the province of the midnight Sun for nothing. The pictures below were taken final black at midnight, past times yours truly, on Södermälarstrand looking at the City Hall.
Here is wishing everyone a fantastic Midsummer! And, if you lot are inwards Stockholm, click hither for tips on what is opened upward too unopen during the weekend. Otherwise, halt past times too beak to me if you lot are staying at the Rival Hotel. And speaking of the Rival... our Bistro is opened upward for the full general populace all weekend long (opening at 4pm each day).

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