![]() I’m also going to introduce a new category: Favourite Swedish radio program.For a faster, more accurate estimate, please provide the following information in the "Your Message" section of your request: the small chocolate-covered Daim pellets. John Ajvide Lindqvists “Låt den rätte komma in” (Let the right one in) is also a great read – wish I’d read more of his stuff.įavourite Swedish candy: for some reason I have an unhealthy addiction to Daimkulor, ie. Right now my favourite Swedish book is Torgny Lindgren’s “Pölsan” (in English translation as “Hash”). My favourite city is Uppsala, with Stockholm and Gothenburg not far behind.įavourite TV show: “Antikrundan” of course! But “Varan-TV” is still the funniest show ever made. The actual mening is something like “to act like a carrion (=as)”, ie do nothing (you’re dead, right?). (As an aside, the word “asa” required a more extensive search: Rietz’ “Svenskt dialektlexikon” from 1862, still the definitive reference, puts the word both in Hälsingland, and in southern Sweden from Småland and downwards – it might well have been brought to Gothenburg since then from Halland, for instance. Yeah, Gothenburg doesn’t surprise me: both “gött” and “möla” are typical Western Swedish slang… If you say “möla” in Stockholm, people won’t understand you… □ “Goffa” might get you farther, but “smälla i sig” is probably more on the safe side. Try it, it’s gött.īut remember, smaken är som baken so please feel free to share your list! Right this moment, after writing this, I would probably say to möla Polly while reading Mons Kallentoft and listening to Hästpojken somewhere on a warm cliff in Bohuslän. Make sure to visit Slottskogen, a huge and beautiful park with lovely surroundings, lots of animals and great events. And, more important, have an ice cold beer on the 23d floor of Gothia West Tower.īohuslän, the little county on the south west coast. Amongst the now living it must be the middle kid, 28-year old Madeleine. Both her and her older sister Victoria, our next regent, are getting married this summer. ![]() Our one and only female regent, Queen Kristina (1632-1654) a very interesting and strong character. Monki makes great and stylish women’s clothes to very much affordable prices.Īt the moment, it’s Hästpojkens “Gitarrer och bas, trummor och hat”. String has made classic and great looking shelves since the 1950’s. It’s thick like a book and contains billiant, long articles about everything. “Mia och Klara”, Swedish humour at its best. The favourite author at the moment is Mons Kallentoft and his novel “Sommardöden” (The Summer Death) gives me the creeps just by standing there in the book shelf. Well, apart from the obvious, I – and almost half of Sweden’s population – love to read this funny a sharp blog by the Swedish journalist and author Alex Schulman.Īpart from everything with Astrid Lindgren I can read Swedish crime until my eyes bleed. – where the Swedes buy and sell their used cars/furniture/clothes/cell phones… Last year, we bought and sold tings for almost two billions on there! Simple, fun AND environmental friendly. “Farväl Falkenberg” (Goodbye Falkenberg/Jesper Ganslandt 2006) “Tilsammans” (Together/Lukas Moodysson 2000) “En Kärlekshistoria” (A Love Story/Roy Andersson, 1970) Polly – a little chocolate covered foam-thing with butter fudge filling that has been a Swedish classic since 1965 and can be purchased at IKEA. Followed by a newly baked, big and moist cinnamon bun after this recipe. Man ska inte ropa hej förrän man är över bäcken = Don’t shout hello until you have crossed the stream. Smaken är som baken – delad = The taste is like your butt – divided. Möla = stuff your face with something yummy Smultronställe = a place that you love and cherish is your “wild strawberry place”. ![]() If you still haven’t read the amazing stories about the Lionheart Brothers, Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter or Mio, My Mio, please do so. The remarkable children’s authur Astrid Lindgren. And since I’m a sucker for list, here’s my list of things I love about, from and in Sverige. Today, it happens to be all about me me me and my favourites from up north.
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