Midsummer Weekend 2013

Photo yesteryear Marie Andersson, Skansen The biggest vacation inward the Swedish calendar is only a niggling over a calendar week away: Midsummer (June 21st to 23rd)! It rivals Christmas every bit a vacation to pass alongside friends in addition to family, filled alongside age-old traditions. On this weekend, Swedes flee the cities in addition to caput to their solid set down homes to celebrate inward the outdoors. Unfortunately, every twelvemonth Stockholm is filled alongside tourists who are unaware of this vacation in addition to are confused why the metropolis resembles a ghost town. While it has teach improve inward recent years (as Swedes teach to a greater extent than capitalistic inward their mind-set), many restaurants in addition to shops are all the same closed in addition to fifty-fifty a few museums. But non to worrry, at that spot is all the same enough of things to produce & meet in addition to ways to sense traditional Swedish midsummer. Here is a niggling guide t...