Focus on Sweden

Things tend to become a little stale around here, since there isn’t much going on at the moment, except planning for the holiday in Romania next week. But since I don’t want to neglect my only subscriber, as Feedburner indicates, I’m going to write a bit about this year’s Midsummer’s Eve.

The Midsummer’s Eve is one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden. People get together in some specially designated places and have picnics, watch live shows and, the most important part, dance around a big pole, called the maypole. This is the symbol of fertility, and given the shape and the looks, one can squarely think of something that resembles the image and has something to do with fertility.

We sat down at the table captured in the picture, in Farsta, south of Stockholm, and ate a lot of goodies, but the party binder was the nubbar, a Swedish sort of flavored schnapps. Some mistakenly may think that the Swedes are a bit quiet, but after a few shots of schnapps a very nice neighbor who joined the party started confessing that he’s been feeling inclined to do number two with the toilet door open, as his father used to do it in the past.

This is not the neighbor in cause in the image below, but a kid from the neighborhood. He seemed to like to pose for pics, but for an unidentified reason I took them in a hurry and they didn’t come out very sharp.