Winter in Sweden is coming: Don’t be scared... it can be beautiful!
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- 🇸🇪 I've created this video to encourage you not to feel disheartened about the conclusion of the Swedish summer. There are many exciting things to anticipate during Sweden's autumn and winter seasons, and I'm here to share why!
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Halloween is an US thing, Allhelgonahelgen when you remember past away family and put candles/lights on their graves is Swedish (I am old😁)!
Yes, true! Halloween is very American. I want to visit a graveyard to celebrate Allhelgonahelgen this year as well :)
Halloween originated from Ireland and yes is very USA thing ❤
"Halloween" was actually an important annual festival in the Viking calendar, known as the Alfablot or the Elf Sacrifice. This festival extended across several days from 28 October until 2 November. In my family we go all in American style. But we talk about the fact that there is a historic connection and that it's not just a made up modern "thing". The Celts celebrated Samhain on 1 November anually. Both Samhain and Alfablot were considered days for honoring the ancestors and other spirits of the underworld.
IMHO, when you live in a place where it actually snows during the winter (especially outside cities), it doesn't feel as cold as the thermometer suggests. Living in a 20 degrees warmer and virtually snowless city can actually feel colder. And the same goes for the darkness, it doesn't feel as dark when there's lots of snow, even without street lights.
I totally agree. Thanks for sharing!
I went to Kiruna Sweden for a college research and it was the most beautiful and magical place I've ever seen!! Winter in Sweden is just absolutely wonderful and mesmerizing.
Thanks for sharing! I still have to explore that part of Sweden 😍
Swedish winters can be beautiful - just like German ladies 😉😸
Happy Sunday 🥀🙋🏻♂️🇸🇪
Thanks.. positive vibes there, even I as a swede need to remember this.. every year!
In anyway.. living in sweden, we adopt to the seasons, so if one is a foreginer, where did my new swedish friends get?
They started to build there home cosy coccones! We shift focuse to "home cosy" and spice it up with some festivities, all helgona, hallowen?, lucia, anual company christmas "julbord", christmas eve, new year eve! A bit later sportlov/winter sport week in Februari even later Easter hollidays, befor we start the new year at spring.
Soo yea we can handle it, we is used to it.. and to top it up, swedes are frequent travelers in winter, either south for sun and warm or to swedish or europeean mounting resorts!
And remember, there is seldome any bad weather, only bad clothings!
Absolutely! Many occasions to celebrate life even during the cold and dark winters :)
Thank you for this! I moved to Sweden at the very end of January this year, so this will be my first full winter in Sweden. So far I've loved Sweden, but everyone keeps saying "Wait until you've had a full winter here...". It sometimes seems like people are determined not to find any positives - but right now that's easy for me to say.
If you already came here in January you already knows what the swedish winter is about. So yuo are well prepared. You will survive. I can asure you that. And it is not like swedes only see´s think negaviely. We are more direct.
I'm swedish and I love winter. I have lived in Dalarna, in Norrland and now in Stockholm-area and the winter is very different in those places. The best winters have snow and about - 5 digrees.. And there is a lot of fun things to do where ever you are.
It's the same here. I hear a lot from people, not only Swedes, that the winters are depressing. But I refuse to be depressed for 4-6 months 😅 There's a lot of things you can do, inside and outside, during Swedish winters. I have experienced 2 full winters now and this will be my third. I'm still okay with it 😊
wintering here as well in wisconsin❤love christmas, and can’t wait for the christmas market videos
Yay! I can't wait either. Just waiting for Halloween to be over hahaha
It is ok to feel tired during the darkness, a flower would never force it self to bloom during the winter :)
You're right! But I know it can be difficult to be sad and tired for such a long time so it's better to embrace some good things about darker times.
I like Jonna Jinton too... ;)
I might have mentioned it before, but if Skokloster arranges a Christmas market this year, go visit it! Unfortunately I don't think they've ha a Christmas market since the pandemic broke out. Main reason is of course that Skokloster is in my opinion one of the prettiest castles in Sweden. Not Neuschwanstein-pretty, but still pretty.
I like your positive attitude.
Now September has been very nice and according to the weather forecast, the beginning of October looks to be just as good. If it continues like this, then the autumn-winter will not be so long.
Yes, how lucky are we?! I'm loving the weather at the moment :)
Nice explanation ! Thanks !
Hej! Thanks for sharing! Have a good week!
Thanks for watching! :)
It is always so nice to listen to you. Yes the autumn is a wonderfull time as well as the winter is. Even for us who live in the northern sweden and who doesn´t get more then 4-5 hours of daylight when it´t as darkest.
The winter market in gamla stan is a tourist trap. But if you fancy having a glass of glögg. And got the paitens cuing for it there is much to see. Most of isn´t exacly free. To put it bluntly
Yes, some Christmas markets are expensive but it still looks lovely though 😅 It's good that you can also buy Glögg at the supermarket and make it cosy at home 🍷✨
Thank you!!!! I am personally go into depression mode as summer ends.... And I need all possible + boosts possible
Been watching some of your videos, trying to learn as much as I can about Sweden. I'm moving over for work in the new year. I'm 22 years old and haven't travelled much in general. I'm quite a 'home bird' so to speak, so I'm intrigued to see how its gonna go. Your videos have been helpful and interesting! I'm also trying to learn Swedish, not because I have to, but I'm interested in doing so. I'm from the UK so I guess its easy for us to never learn another language. Now I'm a bit older, the thoughts of knowing multiple languages would be amazing. Do you have any tips with learning the language?
Exciting times! Congrats! It's always good to learn a new language. You can sign up for an SFI course or if you want to self study I recommend watching Swedish TV shows or children's shows with the Swedish subtitles on. I would normally pause and look up some words if I don't understand anything. Sometimes 1-2 words already help to understand the contect. Children's books you can borrow from a library, which is free, is also a great way to learn the language. Good luck!
A lot of the things you would consider the most swedish things are actually german:.German was the most common spoken language in Stockholm just a couple of hundred years ago.Midsommarstången som vi använder är också ifrån Tyskland
I live about 1000km north of Stockholm.. The winter here is not quite like it is down south. But I was born here and I love the extremes of it.
Can't wait to visit the North of Sweden one day :)
I think You would enjoy it - but be sure to visit during the extremes.. I mean either the middle of the summer when the sun never sets or in the middle of the winter. All depending on what you want. I'd recommend around Midsommar.. for activities and nature. If You prefer skiing and snowmobiles, well, We'll see you sometime after christmas. :)
the risk or chance of a lot of snow is imminent this year. there are a lot of rowan berries this year and that usually means a lot of snow. historically, Christmas lasted until Easter, but is now danced out twenty days after Christmas (den tjugonde knut)..
Your're so cute I love looking at you and by the way let us all know how depressed you get during the Swedish winter 🙃
Hi. I’m really enjoying your videos. They are so informative and give me a good idea of life in Sweden ❤. I was just told that Sweden has a very high incidence of rape compared to other countries. I was shocked!! Could you please comment on this? Thank you
Sweden has a different approach to counting rape incidents. There is a very detailed article on Wikipedia (Rape in Sweden) which you should read to understand it better. Sweden is safer than most countries in Europe and the world. But by taking this very seriously it gets attention and measurements can be put in place because, of course, there shouldn't be any cases at all anywhere, right? I feel safe here, safer than in London, for example. But as a woman you always have to be careful no matter where you are, IMO.
It has been a tradition in Sweden to take away the Christmas decorations at January 13, 20 days after Christmas.
Yes, so I heard. But I've seen people keeping up their Xmas decorations longer than that sometimes. I don't mind at all :)
I prefer the UK climate and weather.
Oh really? What do you prefer?
Can we please have autumn first!
Halloween's not a Swedish tradition.
Yes, absolutely true! Halloween is not a Swedish celebration but still something which is celebrated a little bit here :)
To all of you watching this video about winter, but you've heard how awful Swedish winter can be. Now it's time for you to learn a few things, are you going to listen to what other people say about how terrible winter is? The person you listen to may be a negative person and see everything negatively, should this person influence your decision. The best way is to visit Sweden yourself during the winter and see and feel for yourself what it is like.
The British special military unit SAS has a motto: Who dare Wins. use this slogan when you have to make a decision. Because as I said if you dare to try visiting Sweden during winter, you will probably love it and then you have won by daring. Don't let others influence your decisions no matter what.
I live in Sweden's northernmost city Kiruna and have lived so far for 58 years (was born here). In Kiruna you can really see and feel how the climate has affected Kiruna. Up until and including December 1983, it was not unusual for the thermometer to drop to minus -40 degrees (-104 farenheit).
Just in December 1983, for 3 weeks the temperature fluctuated between -35 and -39 degrees (-95 and -102.2 farenheit). After that, the temperature in Kiruna and in Sweden has become milder in the winters. Since these, the temperature during the winter in Kiruna is as cold as -15 degrees (-59 farenheit), on a few days it can be colder.
Now maybe this with the temperature in Kiruna during the winter scares you to visit Kiruna and the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, then you should know that Kiruna has dry air, which makes it feel milder than where the thermometer says.
I can say that here in Stckholm the air is humid and there it is colder than what the thermometer says and it is called the cold factor. So if the thermometer in Kiruna shows -15 degrees (-59 farenheit), the thermometer in Stockholm needs to show -7 degrees (-44.6 farenheit) for it to feel equally cold in both places.
So I urge you to use this sentence: Who dare Wins. Whatever decision you have to make, because as I said, the sentence says it all.
Because imagine the day when you are old and you have allowed yourself to be influenced by others and did not dare to make your own decisions, then you will regret the rest of your life, that you did not dare.
I wished that as a 16-year-old I knew about that sentence: Who dare Wins. Because I was offered a job in the USA, my own home, a car and driver's license and a good salary. But I listened to others and did not dare to try. I am 58 years old today and it comes up in my thoughts between laps: What would my life have looked like today if I had not listened to others and probably tried to move to the United States. I will never find out the answer and every time it comes to my mind, I bitterly regret not trying, then I would have had the answer but instead it has been there in the back of my mind for 42 years.
So follow this: Who dare Wins and try visiting Sweden in winter.
We hope to visit Jokkmokk in late January. We will be travelling from the UK
I don't live in Jokkmokk and it is far between my city Kiruna and Jokkmokk 21.4 miles (133 miles) J okkmokk is more like a village and if you are going to visit it, you should only go there between 1-3 February 2024 then they have market, this market has been held every year since 1605, when Sweden's then king, Karl IX, decided that fixed market places should be established in Lapland.
However, it was canceled during the pandemic. If you fly, you will fly up to Kiruna to take a bus or rental car to Jokkmokk.
Thanks for sharing! Beautifully said!! I will write this down for my own life: "Who dare Wins."
Yes this is the truest sentence there is "Who dare Wins"
Because it's about each person having to make their own decision, whether they should dare to do something regardless of what is involved or should they let their brain ghosts win over them. Or to listen to others and assume what they say and you gain nothing from that and then have the excuse to blame others for what you yourself have allowed yourself to be influenced by your decisions.
I have been involved in the military since my youth and met a British SAS officer in my regiment who had this very sentence on his beret. I asked him what this meant by this sentence and he answered exactly what I wrote above, and that only the men who dared to challenge themselves in the tough selection could become SAS. So since that day, this has been my go-to place to try things out.
So when it came to Kiruna supermodels like Tyra Banks and a few others, I said I'll introduce myself and talk to them, people said you can't do that with celebrities. S for me it came up that commander said "Who dare win" I tordes and Tyra and the others were happy that I talked to them because no one else tordes. I have paired other big celebrities with just because of that sentence.
its insanity to enjoy a swedish winter, in fact most sweds nowadays quit their jobs from november to go live 6 months in south america or asia and comeback in april, or some families go celebrate christmas holidays in their secondary houses of spain or thailand.
Interesting! Did you do the same? Are you off to a warm country during the Swedish winter? :)
@@LivingSwedish Swedes travel a lot to warm countries in the winter, but I don't know if it's really that common to spend the entire winter there.
Nice