A few amazing times spent in Sweden during Midsummer.
Summer Solstice happens June 21 and Swedes escape the cities to their beloved summer houses to rewind, drink schnapps, eat pickled herring, sing, and dance with flowers in their hair
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| Every Swede has a red and white house |
My first experience with the Midsummer tradition was spend near Gnesta back in 2009. I lived in Stockholm as an Au Pair and this was my friend Philly's Families summer house.
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| Philly and I stroll |
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| Picking my seven wild flowers |
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| Meatballs and I'm in charge |
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| Song and Dance around the May Pole |
Finally after 3 years getting to venture back to Sweden while living in London I made it for the very special Midsummer. These summer house where North of Stockholm near Edsbyn.
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| Front doors are lined with wellies for the un suspected Swedish weather |
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| Fredrik surprising his dad with a new boat for a birthday gift |
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| Enchanting Swedish forest |
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| Mirre in a sit still moment |
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| If your not a Converse wearing Swede then bless you for standing out |
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| Nothing better then hard bread for every single meal |
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| Midsummer lunch Potatoes, Smoked Salmon, Hardboiled Eggs and always a caviar dill crème freiche sauce |
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| Why wouldn't you have lunch in your wood shed? |
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| Fredrik & I |
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| A Swedish Siesta food coma |
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| Midsummer smorgasbord dinner |
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| Looking for Grizzly bears |
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| Edvin and I strolling |
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| Lovely Martina |
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| Fredrik Olov |
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| The sociable Swedes much more sociable after a box of Rose |
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| As dark as the sky will get tonight |
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| a barn social since 1845 |
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| Loka, Matpotatis and an old wood burning stove |
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| Snug up to you Sheep |
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| a traditional Swedish dance |
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| Always one ball hangs lower |
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| Swedish Midsummer cake for breakfast the morning after |
Photo: Heather Walmsley
