First time at Sweden's Midsummer festival: Is this the right place?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2023
- Midsummer is how Sweden celebrates the longest day of the year and summer solstice! It's a festival all about community, love, and fertility!
We try out Stockholm's festival and go to Gamla Stan and Skansen. Naturally, not everything goes to plan and I share my take on it all - Sweden and life in an unusual epilogue.
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Sweden and Denmark is accually the two countries who has fought the most wars against eachother.
Nooo midsummer is not ruind because of rain. Rain is a part of midsummer party :D FOR REAL! It is a common joke that there is always rain on midsummer's day. One year it was even colder on midsummers day than on christmas day :D
It was colder on Midsummer's Day?
Midsommar and rain is a tradition, people look for the weather info and hope for a good midsommar weather!
Rhubarb beer is a interesting choice, I tried a grapefruit beer that started out nice but got a little too much towards the end of the can!
Yep! Not going according to plan is just part of the festivities. It should be sunny outside during the morning so you plan to be outside for the day, and then it should rain so you have to rush everything inside
Ooooo grapefruit! That's a new one, very intriguing 😁 That's also hilarious, rain is kind of a thing! Classic!
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Good night from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents
I waited for the frog dance, alica vikander did the dance on the Fallon show a while back, new york
this video randomly appeared in my watch page and honestly, how do you not have more subscribers? I loved your storytelling and your editing style - I've tried to make my videos more like this but it never quite comes out right! New subscriber here :) I spent three weeks travelling around Scandinavia this year, and did the same last year, and I'm completely obsessed with it. I absolutely agree with the feeling of being at home and being yourself in Sweden, because that's exactly how I felt. Its such an amazing country
Wow what a lovely thing to say, thank you 🥹 I'm glad you liked it and that's SO cool you did so much traveling around the area :) Next time I'll have to ask for suggestions!
I can understand wanting to be where your dog is. A dog is one’s home. She looked so happy with you in the little clip.
Very very similar than in Finland! We have also those poles especially in Swedish talking areas. But I think you can guess what is the most important thing for us Finns in midsummer festival? Yes it is Sauna!!
Of course the epic sauna!! That's interesting that it's fairly similar!
@@NatashaBergenWell Finland belonged to Sweden for hundreds of years so naturally we share some cultural habits.
Such a wonderful voice to hear
You should have 1million subs with content like this Natasha
Perhaps I'll try to draw the attention of Abroad in Japan fans to this channel. Next time Chris has a live chat I'm going to pay him with a superchat to bring attention to you, Chris has a soft spot for me
Wow thank you, that's so kind of you to say! 🥹 Also love the channel - I checked it out after you mentioned it, pure gold!
Glad you liked it :) Both of you have a similar style@@NatashaBergen
You're the kind of person Chris would love having in his videos
This festival make my heart great everytime ❤
Great video! Very nice festival! I enjoyed watching! Sweden is a very interesting country!
A lovely video - Stockholm looks very nice.
Awesome that you got to experience Midsommar in Sweden Natasha!🇸🇪🌼✌️
But celebrating Midsommar in Stockholm is like almost prohibited ;D It's kind of seeing the real Midsommar-festivities through an aquarium with plastic-fishes 😋
Only day everyone leaves Sthlm as you mentioned.
Anyhow we sincerely apologize for the gruesome rain ... 😖 And the missing out on the awesome/fun dancing around the midsommarstång 🌱🕺
You looked great in your Midsommarkrans nevertheless 😇🍀🌼🪻🌺
- I think the rain was a sign for you coming back and get the full experience someday! 🙌
(Midsommar in Leksand) 🫶
Love it! Yes 100% agree, next time I'll do it more like Swedes so I can also taste the glory of Midsommar food 🤤 I've been recommended the islands and Dalarna for next time, what's your take? 😁
Absolutely, dont forget the Midsommar food 👌🤤🥗
Leksand, Dalarna is the place to be! 🐴🪅♥️🎉
@@Hackke stellar! Plan set for next time ;) thank youuu!!
As a "dalmas" on my father's side, born in Göteborg, and raised in Stockholm, (good mix?) I second the claim that Leksand is a good place to experience a swedish midsummer.
The spectacle of erecting the large maypole in "The Pit", a naturally caused depression, is a "tourist-must-see", if in the area one that day. If it is a sunny day, dancing around the
maypole with thousands of other people... a fun experience to do at least once in a lifetime.
However, if you illicit the help of locals to ferret out dates, you can see maypoles raised several times. This as the different small villages in the Lake Siljan area, usually raise
theirs on different days, eventhough some villages are less than a 10 minute drive apart. So one day you can see a maypole being erected in one small village, and then the next
day see another erected in a neighboring village. There are a hundred villages to visit. Just saying.
The experience of driving, carefully, through all these small villages on a sunny sommers day, is also something in itself.
Soo many beautiful places to see around the Lake Siljan. But let's not speak too loudly about it. 🙂
Your channel is a rad find 😊 Good vibes
So happy to hear you like it 🤩
You are amazing person Natasha and all your videos are truly wonderful ❤️ I also have a dog and exactly know what you feel 🥹 sending much love to you and sweet Bella 💕
Oh yes us pup lovers know they are like THE most important to us right? 🥹 Big hugs to you and your pup!!
❤❤❤ Awesome
Awesome video Natasha!!!
I am so glad you got to experience midsummer in Sweden!
I'm really sad I couldn't get to your meeting in Stockholm though.
Maby next time? I really hope you and JP will come back for a visit
sometime in the future.
Hugs to Bella and be safe out there
Thanks Björn! Yes I learned my lesson... don't have a meetup during midsummer week haha but it was fun for those who did come! Another is coming soon, but not in Stockholm :D Yes I'll be back in Sweden one day soon, there's a few adventures I'm itching to do ;) Btw, there's a vlog I recently filmed that you're going to love... but you'll need snacks!
OH a vlog!? Can't wait to see it!@@NatashaBergen
next time you have to try to find one or someone who offers or serves midsummer food. pickled herring with fresh potato sour cream. some grilled meat, schnapps, beer, egg halves, meatballs and much more. like a small Christmas table.
Too bad with the rain Natasha! Was great in Hjo where I was. I really understand Sthlm was empty, all who can escape the cities. Dalarna has indeed the most spectacular celebration. About Finland, I guess sauna is the most important at all holidays😅
So empty it was eerie sometimes haha yes! Good to know about Dalarna!! A place I've always hoped to go, thank you for letting me know 💛
What a shame about the maypole dancing! but so fun to see the traditional midsommar performance - I missed that this year and will look out for it in Gothenburg next year! 🇸🇪
Soooo Gothenburg next year 😉
I think it's time to get the hint and move to Sweden ^^
The viewplace is called Mariaberget
I plan on visiting for midsummer this year and it will be my first time leaving Canada ☺️ I’m traveling solo so I am a little nervous navigating and I’m a little worried about not getting to get out to the countryside and missing something special also lol but I’m sure it would still be a great experience in Stockholm
That’s really exciting! Congrats on making a huge step in leaving our massive country in the first place 🙌
I’m sure you’ll be able to make it out to the countryside 😊 best to book in advance, that’s where we went wrong. I hope you enjoy!
@@NatashaBergen ahh thank you! 🥹 I’m showing up on Wednesday to give myself a little time and my half plan right now is to rent a vehicle, buy a one man tent and possibly find good camp grounds with some accommodations in between 🤞
You have such an amazing personality. Wish you luck in your life journey. If someday you will come to Lithuania, let me know :)
Someday verrrrry soon, keep your eyes out for Lithuania 😉 I hope the winter time is a good time to visit (top secret info here🤫)
Its is magical, especially if you come around holidays :)@@NatashaBergen
Hello and thanks for a nice clip.
First, I just want to give n a little correction of a word. You English speakers say "The fika" while the correct meaning is "to take, or have, a fika". Fika is an abbreviation of "a fika moment" which originally comes from organizing and together, taking a coffee break. But the word comes from having fun with twisting and turning the letters on the word "coffee". Ka-ffe became feka. And in Stockholm slang it became fika.
Midsummer is not a festival, but a celebration practiced since long before the 1000 dc. You are absolutely right that it looks like a penis being lowered into the ground. It is a symbol of the fertility god Frey's penis fertilizing mother earth. This is, so that we can harvest again next year. And you talking bout magic feeling when the music and dancing started. That's right too, because his sister. the female fertility god, the goddess Freya, who is also the queen of the fairies unleashed them and their erotic power so that the people would perform the ceremonies correctly.
The wreath you tied and have around your hair is made of birch leaves, which itself is a symbol of a rising sap and thereby Frey. If you then tied it during midsummer, you could preserve the magic and power throughout the year. So many of the midsummer wreaths were then hung dried on the wall or around the eaves. When you are standing at 5.31 talking about the midsummer dance, you have a house behind you with a gable roof. I just want to point out that it is one of the oldest houses on Skansen that has been moved there. This house was built in 1477-1478. They are real historic houses and Skansen is the world's oldest outdoor museum. Of course you're right that it's folk costumes from different parts of Sweden, but it's Skansen's folk dance team that dances. The path and the view on Södermalm is called the Montelius-path
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I am a bit chocked that they cancelled the dance because they had rained, I mean it almost always rain during part of the midsummer celebration. Cancelling for anything than a hard an ongoing rain is a complete failure by the organising team and they should be replaced.
If you want to see real midsummer celebration go for Dalarna (prefarably somwhere around Lake Siljan, the heartland of the celebration) we have one in every village. Maybe avoid the main one in Leksand that is a bit touristy.
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I have swedish ancestry. I bet some of my relatives are at that festival.
So cool!!
i think i know the guy you got canded almons from thats funny
No way!! Really?! If you send the vid to him and let me know if it was 😂
@@NatashaBergen sure I can iam. Like 95% sure i think I Recognize this brown boxes and he dose candied almonds so but of course I can
Midsommer is an old traditional celebration, not a festival.
Of course :) thanks for watching!
jp next member of storror ? #parkor
Im sorry you had to endure that, you should have gone 15 years ago before the country was destroyed.
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