Friday, June 21, 2013

Midsommarafton

How to Build A Maypole Midsummer Preparations Maypoling Midsommarafton today. The most important holiday in the Swedish calendar. No other day can compete. The National Day is nothing compared to Midsummer. For the third year running I visited the celebrations in the park in Jordbro. As I arrived kids of all ages were busy decorating the Maypole, or Midsommarstång as we like to call it. More facts and photos over the weekend.

7 comments:

Lasse Jansson said...

Det ser trevligt ut. Och traditionsenligt. Ha en riktigt härlig midsommarhelg! :-)

jennyfreckles said...

Photos full of anticipation. I hope you'll show us the maypole.

RedPat said...

I was in Sweden once for this day and it was wonderful! Enjoy!

Bob Crowe said...

How long was the sun in the sky? And six months ago? We went to Alaska once and I was amazed that it never got completely dark in Anchorage in July.

Merisi said...

Midsummer at its best!
Interesting that the maypole appears in June.
Happy Midsummer to you and yours,
Merisi

Stefan Jansson said...

The sunset yesterday took place at 2200 hours. Five hours later it was up again.

Six months ago sunset took place just after two in the afternoon...

VP said...

That is how they do it!