Swedish Christmas starter kit How to use the material This post for social media is about the Swedish Christmas season. You can use the video with English text or use images from Image Bank Sweden. Please make sure to include the names of the photographers of the photos you use.
Video and images Download video (MP4 66 MB) Video with English text Captions The Swedish Christmas season has started! Here's what you need to get ready for Christmas in Sweden:
💛 Soft saffron buns: A must-eat during the Swedish Christmas season – sweet wheat pastries flavoured with saffron.
🍾 Unusual wine – glögg: Spiced wine, which is drunk warm and often with raisins and almonds. There are also non-alcoholic versions.
☕ Glögg cups: To avoid gulping it down, glögg is best drunk from customised small glass cups. Glögging not glugging!
🍪 Crunchy gingerbread biscuits: Christmas staple food.
🧱 🔥 Firewood: A log fire brings extra warmth.
🌟 Star 1: A small reflector, preferably attached to your coat or jacket so that cars can see you (and people can find each other after 15:00 😄 ).
🌟 Star 2: A paper star with an electric light inside, used to decorate windows and boost the Christmas mood.
⛸️ Means of transport: Ice skating to work, anyone? 😉 (Admittedly not a common way to commute.)
⛄ Handy: Warm hands, warm heart! Mittens help fight off the midwinter cold.
🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ Candles: An Advent candle is lit every Sunday from now till Christmas. Four candles mean it's Christmas!
💡 Tangled lights: Have you also noticed that string lights often find a way to get tangled up between Christmases? 🤷
Happy Advent everyone! Let the countdown begin! 🎄 💙 💛
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