Swedish things that confuse me: SUMMER EDITION

Swedish waters are very cold so laying down on warm cliffs afterwards can be quite nice.

That swedengate thing is more complicated. As a child, if youre invited than you will be served food, if you come uninvited, you wont get food. And when i say invited i mean that the friend your going to have his parents call your parents saying that you will be having dinner there etc. You dont wanna give a kid dinner if his/her parents already have cooked food for him/her.

Skåne has some lovely beaches with real sand (I was surprised that they had that). I used to live in Lund and would go to Lomma during hot summer days. It's great ☺️

The thing about the guest being excluded from dinners is, in my experience, only when the kids of the family bring friends home and they weren't expecting to have to cook enough for a guest that day. I experienced this a few times as a kid, but it was equally common to just be invited to have dinner with them. Really just came down to whether or not there was enough food available to feed another person and whether or not the guest planned on having dinner at home. The whole thing has been overblown on social media and it's really not as bad as it sounds.

I agree it's weird to call it the WC of Brännboll, but to be fair though it's somewhat rich hearing it from a US citizen since you do the exact same with both Baseball and American football

As a Swede, I recognize that our 'badplatser' are different to what most people around the world expect, but it is what I prefer. I am willing to be a little uncomfortable lying on the cliffs to escape what I consider the bad parts of going to a sandy beach (coarse and rough and gets everywhere, you know the drill). Anyway, we do in fact have beaches, and if you'd like to see a good Swedish sandy beach, I'd recommend visiting the southwestern and/or southmost parts of the country (Varberg, Halmstad, Trelleborg etc)

As a kid in the 90's there were many occasions where I was at a friend's house and was waiting for them to eat dinner. It was normal, and I was also a very picky eater, plus my mom would want me to eat the food she made when I got home. There were occasions when I was offered food. I think that back then at least, it wasn't really easy for parents to quickly make more food than what they had already planned to make for their family. And kids could just drag home one or more friends, and that could be too much to handle. And before cellphones it wasn't really easy to give a heads up. I can't speak for kids today, but my personal experience was that it was no issue waiting in my friend's room for them to come back from dinner. 🙂

INNE and UTE on the score board refers to the teams. Innelaget is the team that is taking turns serving the ball and running. Utelaget is the team on the field trying to catch. Points are given for things like catching the ball and running around the field etc.

Brännboll is great! I think of it as a fun game only slightly more serious than Kubb. I'm sure only a tiny fraction of Swedes have ever watched a "pro game" of brännboll. I had no idea those exist and I don't feel like watching it.

I've had that both ways, the feeding guests thing, both as a child myself, and being an adult. I think in all cases it's always been that food was cooked and prepared, then in comes a child with a friend, with no warning ahead of time that "I'll bring an extra to the table." Usually though, at least Something can be prepared. At other times it can be as simple as the child or guest is expected to eat at home once they get back there so as to not say ... "Naah, don't want any food, I've already eaten". Could be all sorts of things, but I honestly don't think we're as a general rule hostile to feeding guests, be it children or adults. 😀

Den klassiska semesterperioden är juli i Sverige men den kontinentala varianten augusti har blivit allt vanligare, dessa två månader är de enda som generellt har sommar klimat. Sedan 1938 har svenska löntagare rätt till sammanhängande ledighet (numera minst fyra veckor) till skillnad mot exempelvis US där sådan rättighet knappast finnes.

I think the main reason for lack of sand is that to make man-made beaches you have to dredge up sand from the bottom of the ocean, and that messes up the eco-system for the marine life

The weirdest new realtor thing are those apartment ads where the description is 2nd person POV. "You wake up from a good night's sleep and go to the beautiful kitchen to make yourself a cup of coffee. As the coffee brews, you look out the windows to admire the work your husband has done in the garden. You have a feeling it is going to be a good day today." It makes me laugh every time.

Regarding the real estate photos, it's mostly about selling you the idea of how you could decorate the space. Instead of just showing empty rooms.

Come to Halmstad, when you come back to Sweden. We have real beaches, search for "Halmstad Tylösand". Hope you can get back to Sweden.

Summer in sweden is the best day of the whole year. Of course, everyone wants a vacation that day. You take 4 weeks vacation in hopes of getting that day.

Maybe it's because I live in Skåne, but I've only ever seen beaches with sand. I live so far down in the south that I'm essentially completely surrounded by sand, so I guess it depends on where you live. I wouldn't expect a lake to have an artificial beach attached to it

As be from Halland, we have sandy beaches Goggle places as Skrea strand, Tylösand, Frösakull, Mellbysand, Olofsbo, Haverdal,

Welcome back. Love it as always

I would say that July is the most popular time for vacation. Everyone is fighting for those weeks, at least where I live 😅