Today is Midsummer Eve in Sweden. It is very special day since it celebrates the longest day of the year. The sun never settles in the northern parts of our country and even as far down as Svångemåla you have almost daylight until 23.30. The celebrations are a bit strange to most non Swedes and include the decoration and raising of a maypole, eating herring (no it is not really raw fish but almost) and drinking too much alcohol. The latter is of course not compulsory but when you read the reports from Öland and Dalarna, you might think so. All un-married females can this particular night find out who they will marry by picking seven different kinds of flowers and put them under her pillow. Her husband to be will the come to her in her dreams. I think she might just as well get dried flowers in her hair but that is me, an old grumpy Bear!
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