Experience a traditional holiday celebration depending on arrival:

Bonfire to celebration Walpurgis on the beach April 30th
Midsummer with the may pole covered with flowers – June 22-25
Craw fish parties – August 10th-30th – all evenings
Eel parties – End of August September
Gees dinners – October – november
Christmas buffets and markets – November – December

Have your own Noble prize dinner at the Stockholm City Hall.

Ask for travel packages from 3-10 days with exotic tradition experience!

Walpurgiss who was an abbess from the eighth century in Germany became the Swedish Valborg. Walpurgis was seen as a bearess of the fruitfulness of the earth. This festival has survived from Viking days, when warriors of old celebrated an annual feast in honor of returning spring. Bonfires lighted on mountain tops were thought to frighten away demons of darkness and gloom. Today people observe the festival throughout the land by lighting fires on hills and mountain peaks to welcome the lengthening of days.

Cuckoo dawn picnic in sunrise
Early (around 4 or 5 am) one Sunday morning in spring we go for a picnic to listen for the first birdsong. If one can hear the cuckoo, you have to listen from what direction it is calling. From the north means sorrows, from the south means death, from the east means solace and from the west means that the best will happen.

Whitsun Saturday, Sunday and monday
This is the celebration day for the first harvest. It is common with weddings on this day. Premiere for the barbeques in gardens and beaches.
Perhaps the best known Midsummer tradition is the decorating and raising of the Midsummer pole (maypole). It’s origins have divided scientists. One side sees the pole as a remnant from heathen fertility rites and that it can be traced back to prehistoric times and sacrifice feasts. There will be dancing, singing and eating all night long (almost).

The crayfish feast, at which people gather to eat, drink and be merry, is a typically Swedish festivity marking the end of the summer.

Similar in spirit to the crayfish parties, eel parties feature eel as the main delicacy, and it is served in every form: smoked, grilled, stuffed, and more. Restaurants typically throw contests to see who can lift the most live eels out of a barrel, and crown the winner the “eel king.” Another fall culinary special is surströmming, or fermented Baltic herring, which is popular in the north. Surströmming parties are also very common at this time, and the tradition comes from the simple fact that at one time it was cheaper to preserve fish by fermenting it than by storing it in salt.

November is the month of the goose parties. Enjoy long dark candle light evenings with gastronomic experiences.
Lucia comes very early in the morning December 13th with a white dress, a red ribbon around her waist and candles in her hair, singing beautiful Lucia songs. She brings Lucia buns and gingerbread cookies and perhaps some coffee. She also brings star boys and girl attendants who carries the candles in their hands.