by LYS editorial team | 2017, Jul, Sun | Make Sweden your Home
If you were not familiar with the Swedes’ attitude to their summer holidays already, you might start to notice that the country is more or less shut down by mid July. The cities are full only of tourists, and a handful of bitter professionals who are still going to...
by LYS editorial team | 2017, Apr, Sat | Make Sweden your Home
Age is catching up with me. Every morning, my contact lenses present to me not my own eyes, but my mother’s. I frown at this classical reminder of destiny’s imperfection. A cliché without meaning, outsmarted only by my father’s handwriting, haunting me at work, on my...
by LYS editorial team | 2016, Jun, Sun | Uncategorized
Where to go for MidsummerYou have probably been told about the upcoming event, midsommarafton, taking place on Friday. The aim is to celebrate the summer solstice (actually occurring a few days earlier) and the fact that from now and onwards, every day will be a...
by LYS editorial team | 2015, Jul, Mon | Make Sweden your Home
Many of us dream of a Swedish sommarstuga, and early half the Swedish population have access to one, whether this means owning it, renting it, or sharing it with family or friends. What is remarkable about these statistics is not so much this number, although it is...