June 25 the Stockholm office is closed to celebrate Midsummer

The Oslo office remains open.

Midsummer is one of the most important holidays of the year in Sweden and probably the most uniquely Swedish in the way that it is celebrated. As Swedes like to be well-ordered Midsummer Eve is always celebrated a Friday, meaning that it is not on the same date every year but always the Friday after the Summer Solstice .
Henrik Trygg

Henrik Trygg

Midsummer is an occasion of large gatherings and a feast to fulfill your social obligations. It is an occasion with a certain nostalgia and pretty much all Swedes have an idea on what it should be like and how it should proceed. The main celebrations on the Friday include  traditional events such as raising and dancing around the Maypole listening to traditional music. Some also wear traditional folk costumes and crowns made of wild sprigs and wildflowers. At the dinner table you find the year’s first potatoes, pickled herring, chives, sour cream and hopefully also the first Swedish strawberries of the season, accompanied by cold beer and snaps, the latter enjoyed with a drinking song.

At Midsummer, the Swedish summer is a lush green and bursting with chlorophyll, and the nights are scarcely dark at all. In the north, the sun never sets. There is also a mysterious touch to Midsummer when girls and young women on their way home are to pick seven different species of flowers and lay them under their pillows  in order to dream of their future husbands. Legend says that the night before Midsummer’s Day is a magical time for love.

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